IGDA Finland x Rovio Holiday Party!

IGDA Finland & Rovio Present: Fireside with Reggie Fils-Aimé, plus more!

Tuesday 15th December
19:00 - 21:00 EET

IGDA Finland and Rovio will be bringing some holiday cheer to all of the studios, homes and home offices out there with a special online holiday party. 
Rovio will host a fireside chat with Reggie, who will share his experiences, thoughts on what the future holds and answer some of your questions.

This will be a one-time live event only, there will be no possibility to see it afterwards so make sure to tune in!

On top of getting your sweet fill of Reggie we have:
- Rovio’s inhouse band 
- Holiday cheers from Finnish game devs
- The traditional Yule Log

The livestream will take place on the following streaming services:
IGDA Finland Twitch
IGDA Finland Youtube
IGDA Finland Facebook

See y’all in December!

IGDA Finland February Gathering with Rovio

El Jefe was the place to be on Tuesday night when enthusiasts of the Finnish games industry gathered once again to share learn and most of all have fun at the monthly IGDA Gathering in Helsinki. A big thank you once again to our wonderful sponsor Rovio who brought the party to town! Volunteers hard at work at the registration desk.

In the midst of satisfying their sweet tooth with some Angry Birds candy, guests had the opportunity to hear more about Rovio’s cloud services and Rovio’s own cloud platform and SDK, Hatch, which has been in development for three years. Rovio has also soft-launched an in-game video channel called Ruffle that aims to bring new elements to fan interaction. During the evening’s presentations Rovio’s Jyri Partanen also gave some insight to the company’s success story and concluded that social features and F2P is the way forward.

Jyri Partanen

IGDA Finland would also like to congratulate Rovio for celebrating their 5^th Bird Day! Since its launch in 2009, Angry Birds has captivated and impacted hundreds of millions of fans around the world and has expanded from games into much, much more.

Some lucky guests went home with huge plushies!

Thank you to everyone for a fantastic time and we will see you again on March 10th!

IGDA Finland February Gathering with Rovio

Time to warm up February by gathering at El Jefe on Tuesday 3rd February with all your favourite friends! Rovio has kindly sponsored our event, and not only that, we have a great presentation for the night!

Jyri Partanen from Rovio Entertainment will be speaking about great games and Rovio's cloud services: how to grow a fan-base, engage your fans, and help fans pay you. He'll offer you a sneak peek into how Rovio's cloud services reach hundreds of millions of fans globally. He's going to hatch the story on Hatch: a tool built for Rovio developers.

IGDA Finland February Gathering Time: 03.02.2015 at 19:00 Place: El Jefe, Erottaja 15-17, Helsinki Finland

As usual, the cloakroom service is offered free of charge on behalf of El Jefe. The event is limited to adults only.

IGDA Finland June Gathering with Rovio

Welcome to the IGDA Finland June Gathering on Tuesday 10^th June! Summer holidays are right around the corner but before it is time to run off to the beach with those plastic shark fins to scare all of your friends, there is still time for the IGDA Finland June Gathering. The evening will be hosted by none other than the enormously successful entertainment company Rovio! As usual the gathering will begin at 19:00 at Club Adams.

What are you waiting for? Come to connect and have a relaxing evening. Be there, or be a bad piggy.

IGDA Finland June Gathering Time: 10.06.2014 at 19:00 Place: Club Adams, Erottaja 15-17, Helsinki Finland

As usual, the cloakroom service is offered free of charge on behalf of Club Adams.

Games track on Nov 13th, Slush

Slush Games track will occupy the Black Stage on November 13th. Check out the Games track program.

At 11:30am 10 mobile game startups will hit the stage. Each one will have one lesson to share with the crowd from the first leg of their journey. After the learnings we'll involve Kristian Segerståle and Aki Järvilehto into the discussion. What will these two experienced game developers / business leaders have to say to the startups?

The startups: Gajatri Studios (Tiina), Headnought Games (Pauli), PlayRaven (Lasse), Fat Lemon Games (Jani), Rival Games (Jukka), Boomlagoon (Antti), Small Giant Games (Markus), Nonstop Games (Juha), Tuliotus (Sami) and SongHi (Daniel).

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Other gaming related events during Slush:

- Facebook's "Getting started with Parse ­- the new way to build" workshop at the Slush Basement on November 13th - 11:00am - 1.45pm. Facebook will organise four 20 minute sessions in a row. No pre-registration needed.

The workshop will focus on: - User acquisition using Facebook's Mobile App Ads - Growing your game using Facebook's social channels - Cross platform social integration with Unity

- Neogames & IGDA Finland game industry mingle at 5pm White Stage - meet other investors, publishers and developers. Snacks and drinks available.

- Official Slush party on November 13th from 9pm onwards

- Women in Games networking event on November 14th, at 5pm (Teatterimuseo)