20.6.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #5 / 2023 (29.8.2023) – Estève Pannetier, GreenElephant.org

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #5 / 2023

Guest: Estève Pannetier, Co-Founder at GreenElephant.org

Topic: Take control of your flow while designing and releasing games!

Time: 18:00 (doors open 17.30)

Date: Tue 29.08.2023

Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä, Finland

– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

Schedule:

17.30 Doors open
18.00 Start/intros

18.05 What is Flow?

18.10 Flow in Game Design Strategy

18.15 Collective Flow in Teamwork and Communication with your team

18.20 Myths about Flow (and what to do about them)

18.30 Q&A

Description:

As a game developer you’ve most likely reached flow while playing games yourself, but how to keep the flow while creating games yourself? Estève Pannetier is a seasoned team-leader and game strategist who has consulted and coached developers in Ubisoft, Supercell and a number of independent gaming companies to help teams tap into the collective intelligence of flow. In this session you’ll learn rules of thumb on how to understand, measure and communicate about flow, both in designing and releasing games. Bring your notepads and questions to get the most out of this session!

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

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22.1.2023

CANCELED: Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #5 / 2023 (25.5.2023) – TBA

CANCELED: Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #5 / 2023

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Guest: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Thurdsday 25.5.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with TBA
18:30 Q&A with TBA
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #4 / 2023 (27.4.2023) – Special Meetup with Musa+ project

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Special Hybrid Meetup #4 / 2023

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Special Meetup – Crash event for companies in the music, event and gaming industries

The Musa+ – Tempo to profitability project

responds to the need to revive the music and event industries after the corona pandemic. In the project, Central Finnish companies in the music, event and game industries will be encountered, mapping work will be done on potential business models in the game industry and the current state of the music and event industries.

The purpose of the project is to increase the business and business development know-how of central Finnish music and event industry companies, and to bring them together with game industry professionals at the edge of new technologies

The project is funded from the REACT-EU budget as part of the Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Musa+ project funded by

Date: Thursday 27.4.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE

17:00 Doors open
17:30 Welcome! Musa+ Tempo to Profitability project
17.40 Salla Hakkola (musician, composer)
18:05 Markus Pajakkala (musician, producer, multi-instrumentalist)
18:30 Break & free networking
18:45 Sami Toivanen (Discovery-tour producer)
19:10 Vesa Peltola (CEO, Noveltive Ltd.)
19:25 Free networking and demonstration of the virtual studio of Noveltive Ltd.
20.00 The event ends

Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Guests:

salla
Salla Hakkola (MA, Sibelius Academy) is an internationally awarded harpist composer. She is best known for composing music for Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, and Merge Mansion. From 2011 to 2019, she worked at Rovio as a composer, producer, and music consultant, making music for games, animations, trailers, and in artist collaboration. Starting in 2019, she works through her own audio company, composing music, for example for Supercell and Metacore’s Merge Mansion. She recently won two prices at the NYX Game Awards 2023: Grand Winner for Best Mobile Game Music for Merge Mansio Games, and Gold Winner for Best Game Music Sountrack for Friends & Dragons.

markus

Markus Pajakkala has worked as a songwriter and producer of the Yousician application. He has been an active member in and behind bands such as Ellips, Von Hertzen Brothers, Waltteri Torikka, as well as his own band Utopianisti. He hosts monthly jam nights at the Tampere G Livelab Club. He graduated in 2013 in Music Technology at the Sibelius-Academy.

sami

Sami Toivanen is one of the founders of Cityspotting. Founded in 2020, the gamified urban adventure solves the motivation problem of movement by offering inspiring perspectives and excursions from your own city.

Vesa

Vesa Peltola (Ceo, Noveltive Ltd.) showcases Noveltive and demonstrates the company’s new virtual studio.

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Please Join to the event via link sign in so we know how many is coming:

https://link.webropolsurveys.com/Participation/Public/5f89ac86-c34b-4864-9463-db0f45e072ac?displayId=Fin2786694

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #3 / 2023 (30.3.2023)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #3 / 2023

Guest Name: Antti Sartanen
Company: Return Entertainment
Topic: Cloud-native Gaming vs. Cloud Gaming
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Thu 30.03.2023
Time: 18:00Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Antti Sartanen interviewed by Wanda (streamed)
19:00 Mingling

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #2 / 2023 (23.2.2023)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #2 / 2023

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Guest: Sami Kalliokoski, CEO
Company: Traplight
Topic: Fireside chat about game business entrepreneurship
Demo corner: GeneRally 2 by Curious Chicken GamesTime: 18:00
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Thurdsday 23.2.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Fireside chat with Sami Kalliokoski from Traplight (streamed)
19:00 GeneRally Demo by Curious Chicken Games (on site) + mingling
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

12.1.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa 10 years – Digi & Game Center 3 years – Birthday Event

About this event

It is time to celebrate The Peliosuuskunta Expa 10 years – Digi & Game Center 3 years – Birthdays together with You!

Event is for the people that are or want to be part of the success of Central Finland Game Industry scene now and in the future.

TIME WHAT

11.30 – 13.00 Register in and getting to know the #DGCJKL premises, XR, Green screen Studio, Game Demos, JAMK GamePit Esport, Companies etc

13.00 – 13.30 Opening words – Valtteri / Wanda + City people

13.30 – 14.30 Jamk University of Applied Sciences speakers

14.30 – 14.45 BREAK 15 min

14.45 – 15.30 University of Jyväskylä speakers

15.30 – 16.30 Keynote 1 45 min + QA 15 min – STUDENT PITCHING

16.30 – 16.45 BREAK 15 min

16.45 – 17.45 Keynote 2 45 min + QA 15 min

17.45 – 18.00 BREAK 15 min

18.00 – 18.45 Keynote 3 45 min + QA 15 min

19.00 – 20.00 BREAK 19.00 Thanks for the day and prepare for the after work and do some Networking

20.00 – 00.00 After party STARTS some music & networking VJ + DJ show

If You want to use sauna in the evening, please take your own towel with you.

(Men and Women shall have their own turns)

Reserve You spot as invate only, and please do cansel your ticket if not coming

Note: The schedule is subject to change under certain circumstances.

11.1.2023

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #1 / 2023 (26.01.2023)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #1 / 2023

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Guest: Michel Nkuindja, Joinplay Games Studios
Topic: Chronicles of Lost Stars: An Epic Afro – Fantasy Action Adventure
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Thurdsday 26.1.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with Michel Nkuindja, Joinplay Games Studios
18:30 Q&A with Michel Nkuindja, Joinplay Games Studios
19:00 Free mingling on-site

– Game Tagline: An epic afro-fantasy action adventure in which you’ll fight and unravel the mystery behind the secret of Dogons

– Video links: https://youtu.be/FU1mSV0Rxec | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw9znae0wJA

More details
https://joinplaygames.com/

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!