We invite you to join us on our fifth Leadership Day on the 11th of September at BioRex Helsinki!

Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games. Games companies, their inner workings and cultures are some of the least documented aspects of game development. Yet we and our work are all defined by these choices every single day. Join us in learning and challenging the cutting edge of leadership in games from some of the brightest minds in the industry!

Speakers

Sponsors

For more info visit our event page

IGDA Finland will be celebrating its 20th birthday!

Save the date: May 27th!

IGDA has worked towards advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers for the last 30 years globally and 20 years in Finland. We invite you all to celebrate this together, enjoy food, music and festive vibes!

This ticket will grant you, buy yours:

https://igda_finland_20.eventbrite.com

access to IGDA Finland Birthday Party, including music performances welcoming drink and delicious food! 

Dresscode is casual, but festive!

#igdafinland #igdafi20

Artists

Game Music Collective 🎻

GMC is established in 2017 - is a next generation symphonic orchestra, rock band and a music production company at the forefront of video game music!

In 2023 Game Music Collective released their debut album RESTART - Finnish Game Music Revised. The new album showcases the very best of Finnish video game music and features an epic collaboration of over 60 musicians!

DJ MegaTommi 🎧

MegaTommi is a DJ and a stage name of Tommi Salomaa – composer, performer, audio designer and game music enthusiast!

He performs video game music ranging from retro to modern, as well as music related to gaming and game culture. MegaTommi has played in many game industry events and parties, and has organized the very first live music performance ever in IGDA Finland gathering! For IGDA Birthday party he will present a special performance with many legendary tunes from Finnish games.

Our venue is the awesome Koskenranta at Helsinki! ☀️

You can hear Vantaankoski streams past and you can see part of most beautiful nature in Helsinki, Vanhankaupunginlahti.

Hello everyone!

Prepare yourselves for our Christmas party on the 3rd of December at Players Sports Bar!

Baltic Explorers has graciously sponsored us with the venue and food. We will also have drink tickets sponsored by Nitro Games, Game Makers of Finland and Kukouri.

Official after-party at Kuura Games venue with no pre-registration.

We strongly advise you to bring a facemask with you and if you are feeling unwell we kindly ask you to not participate.

Get your free ticket here.

We hope to see you there!

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Hello again!

Are you too eagerly waiting for the Christmas party? Only 3 weeks to go until December the 3rd and the party at Players Sports Bar!

Venue and food are sponsored by Baltic Explorers and drink tickets sponsored by Nitro Games, Game Makers of Finland and Kukouri.

Official after-party at Kuura Games venue that does not require pre-registration.

We recommend you to bring a facemask with you and if you are feeling unwell we kindly ask you to not participate.

There are still tickets left! Get yours quickly!

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Hello there!

Still haven't got a ticket? Now is the time to get one! 

Only 2 weeks to go until December the 3rd and the party at Players Sports Bar!

Venue and food are sponsored by Baltic Explorers and drink tickets sponsored by Nitro Games, Game Makers of Finland and Kukouri.

Official after-party at Kuura Games venue that does not require pre-registration.

We recommend you to bring a facemask with you and if you are feeling unwell we kindly ask you to not participate.

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Hello again everyone!

Notice! We will be requiring a COVID-19 Passport from everyone joining the party!

Wow! It seems that everybody wants to come and party with us! Our ticket quota is now full, but you can still get on our waitlist for a chance to join the party.

But do not worry, if you still want to participate you can enter the waitlist to get your ticket if somebody cancels their booking. And the afterparty doesn't require you to have a ticket, so feel free to come there even if you can't get your hands on a ticket for the main event.

See you at the party!

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Hello there!

I’ll go straight to the point; there will be no afterparty for the Christmas Party due to the new Covid-19 limitations and the fact that I don't want to stuff too many people in a small space without being able to make sure it is safe to do so. I could go on with all the explanations about this, but frankly I don't think it would really matter at this point.

The partying doesn't have to end to that though, Players will be open after the party so we can continue partying there after the official event ends.

To end on a positive note, I still think we are going to have one of the best christmas parties, we have ever organized despite of everything going on. I also know that this is and will only be the first step on our path to making 2022 and the following years the best time yet to be a part of IGDA Kotka in the whole Kymenlaakso area.

Kristo Juurinen

Hub Lead of IGDA Kotka

Hello everyone!

Come join us at our next Meetup on 18.11 starting at 18:00.

We'll be hanging out at pub Albert. We will keep you up to date, should there be any regulation changes in the coming weeks.

We strongly advice you to bring a facemask with you and if you are feeling unwell we kindly ask you to not participate.

We hope to see you there!

P.S. There will be an afterparty hosted by our friends from Kuura.

Hello everyone!

Our next meetup will be on the 16th of September, stay tuned for more information about the location of the event.

This event will be special! We're inviting the Game Programming first-year students from Xamk.

We hope to see you there!

UPDATE

Hello everyone!

We're having our next meetup at Katariinan Meripuisto! The date was announced earlier but as a reminder it's on September 16th from 18:00 onward.

We're going to grill some food and hang out!

Also as a reminder because of the current state of the world we encourage people to stay home if they are feeling sick, we will provide hand sanitizer on-site and please bring a mask with you in case we need to move indoors!

Remember to dress warm, it's not summer anymore!

Good news everyone!

We're having a live Meetup for the first time in a long while!

Come join us at Katariinan Meripuisto in Kotka on the 19th of August starting at 18:00.

We're going to grill some food and hang out in person!

Please remember what times we're living in, if you are not feeling well, refrain from coming to the Meetup and join us next time when you are feeling better. Also remember to bring a mask just in case and use the hand sanitizer which will be provided by us at the site.

UPDATE

Bad news everyone!

Unfortunately due to poor weather conditions expected on Thursday, we're not going to have the BBQ Meetup.

Instead we'll be having an online Meetup at our Discord server. Join us there for some games and chatting! (time and date are still the same)

Hello people!

Come join us at our next online Meetup on the 20th of May starting at 18:00!

We’re having some interesting speakers over; Teemu Kokkonen (FGJ), J. Häll (IGDA) and Milla Pennanen (Game Makers of Finland).

We hope to see you there!

More details on our Discord server: https://discord.gg/7EeNy9D

The event is getting ever closer, our guests in the upcoming May Meetup:

Teemu Kokkonen, FGJ

During the day Teemu Kokkonen is a game programmer and designer doing hyper casual games at Lightneer in Helsinki. At night, he is the president of the Finnish Game Jam organization, which organizes and supports the game jamming scene in Finland and promotes it globally.

Milla Pennanen, GMOF (Game Makers of Finland)

Milla is one of the founders of the Game Makers of Finland. With a strong background in labour union activities and her network with game and tech companies she is perfectly poised to stand up for the workers within the industry. As an enthusiastic gamer she, like all of us, wants to keep getting new games but not at the expense of the people who make them.

J. Häll, IGDA Finland

A cheeky nerd with a long history of pen & paper RPG's, LARPing and, naturally, video games. Spends most of his time teaching game design at Metropolia and as a game dev at Totally Valid Company. But once work is done it's time for the good stuff, being the chair of IGDA Finland.

An organisation that supports game devs, from students to veterans, across all of Finland and works constantly to keep up the unique community we have.

Finally it’s FridAI!

FridAI brings Ambitious youth and professionals together around 
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and things defining our future.

IGDA Finland hosts this FridAI and we share AI cases on game development.

Programme from 3PM to 5PM:

Welcome / Waltteri Mäkinen, SAMK
– few words about FridAI / Peter Vesterbacka & Ronny Eriksson
– few words about IGDA Finland / Joonas Häll

Level up your game with AI
Christoffer Holmgård, Modl.ai

Adaptive AI Behavior in Stealth Games
Anton Petrushenkov, Bigger Scope

AI at its Core: Rival Peak - A Case Study
Chirstopher Hamilton, Genvid Technologies

Interactive discussion

*** More info and registration: 
https://www.ambitious.africa/ambitious-fridai

FridAI will be held on Deal Room platform which can also be used for networking. Please use couple of minutes to fill in your profile!

Welcome!

IGDA Finland invites you to our November ONLINE MEETUP with exciting program together with our sister chapter form Italy – IGDA Turin!

We are delighted to host this this event with remarkable guests from Finnish and Italian gamedev scenes, sharing the cultural, social and bizdev practices among our communities. Please welcome:

- Marco Mazzaglia - Technical Director of Academy and Videogame Evangelist at Synesthesia
- Valerio Di Donato – CEO of 34BigThings
- Davide Cavuoto - Game Designer at Tiny Bull Studios

and

- Gabriele Aimone - Director of Helsinki Games Capital, previously Supercell
- Minna Eloranta - Co-Founder and CEO of Boom Corp
- Natasha Skult - Co-Founder and CEO of MiTale

hosted by incredible Joonas Häll from Helsinki and Jami Salati from Turin.

The event will take place online on the 24th of November from 19:30 (EET/GMT+2) on Twitch channels of

IGDA Finland ( https://www.twitch.tv/igda_finland )

and

IGDA ( https://www.twitch.tv/igda )

while the networking will take place at the Finnish Game Dev Discord channel:
discord.gg/aCfTY6E

Games companies, their inner workings and cultures are some of the least documented aspects of game development. Yet we and our work are all defined by these choices every single day. Join us in learning and challenging the cutting edge of leadership in games from some of the brightest minds in the industry!

Like all things IGDA Finland, the conference is free to attend and non-profit, made possible by our volunteers and partners.

Sign up to Mentor Cafe here.

Find more information about the event and speakers here.

Welcome to the IGDA Nordics Party!
Nordic Game Conference 2018 is taking place in Malmö on 23-25th of May. We are delighted to announce that this year, IGDA chapters from Nordic countries are joining forces to make the BIGGEST IGDA PARTY ever and we wish to highlight our gaming companies in this event. 

When and where?
23rd of May, after the first day of the conference we will gather at 20:00 in Moriska Paviljongen, Norra Parkgatan 2, 214 22 Malmö, Sweden. 

A HUGE thanks goes to our main sponsor Fingersoft and associate sponsor Apprien!

Greetings all members of IGDA Finland association!

You are warmly welcome to join the statutory annual meeting of IGDA Finland ry. The meeting will be held on Thursday, 17th of May, 2018, from 6 PM until 7 PM, at Business Meeting Park Forum (Forum Mall, Glass Corner entrance, Mannerheimintie 20 B, 00100 Helsinki, meeting room MARSKI 2). It is also possible to participate virtually via Google Hangouts.

The main purpose of this meeting is to go over our actions and accept our financial accounts for 2017 but it’s also a good moment to discuss the big picture of IGDA Finland with the current board of directors. Light snacks and refreshments will be served.

Please RSVP by email to joonas.hall@igda.fi by the end of business hours on Friday, 14th of May, 2018.

If you have any questions regarding the event, please contact joonas.hall@igda.fi.

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THE AGENDA OF THE ANNUAL MEETING ON MAY 17, 2018

- Opening the meeting
- Selecting the officials for the meeting
- Legality and power of decision
- Confirming the agenda
- Action report
- Presenting and confirming the financial accounts and auditors’ reports
- Granting the discharge for the board and others that are held accountable
- Other emerging issues
- Ending the meeting