Next weekend Hartwall Areena is going to be overrun with computer enthusiasts as the summer's biggest computer and video game related event, Assembly, kicks off. And the students of Media and Interactive Design are going to be right there among them. TAMK is one of the sponsors at the even, and the school's participation is being done as a student project, where the students plan and implement TAMK's marketing and presence at the event.

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Director/Script Writer Iiro Peltonen in action with Jose Viitala and Antti Väre

Story: Hannu Koivuranta
"Brothers In Arms" - written and directed by Iiro Peltonen - was shot on the 19th of June in Pori, in the Fortress Park of Reposaari.

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Actor Raimo Grönberg, Outi Hartikainen and Hannu Koivuranta in Action

Story: Hannu Koivuranta
Having received a 5000 euro production grant from the Languages Through Lenses 2010 -shortfilm competition "Connection Lost" went under production on the night of 2nd and 3rd of July. The film is directed by Outi Hartikainen and found its idyllic location in Lempäälä near Tampere.

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The Reach (Loppuun palaneet) participated in the Uneton 48 - competition, where you have to write, shoot and finish a short film in 48 hours. It is a post-apocalyptic short film about a world, where the Sun is too close to Earth.

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It's been a busy summer here in the Supernova lab. So busy, in fact, that we haven't had time to update our progress to this blog.

Anyway, our five games are now finished, but the project isn't quite yet. We still gotta put together the documentation, gather screenshots and gameplay videos. All of the material will be available at our blog, so go check out on Wednesday or later.

You can find all of the 5D2 games here, so go and try them out.

Text: Eevi Korhonen
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Demola, Finlayson behind the taf (Tampere Art Factory) banner

The Summer School for Students and Young Designers is to be held in Tampere, Finland, from 30th of August till 3rd of September in 2010 at the DEMOLA Centre of Innovation. The Engage Summer school will tackle issues related to game design as well as how to embed curricular topics in the game design. The summer school (3 ECTS) will accommodate between 15 – 25 international students and game designers. For further information about the logistics and the application form, click on the links at Engage Summer School home

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Deadline of submissions July 30

The Ubimedia competition seeks to broaden our understanding of where and how ubiquitous media will influence our future life. We are looking for disruptive artistic visions as well as clever near-to-market solutions off the beaten tracks! This includes any range of innovative ubimedia, pervasive, or ambient products and services. The Ubimedia Award is a highly interdisciplinary competition and we invite Designers, Computer Scientists, Artists, Economists and Engineers to take a stand on the following questions with their entries:

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President Markku Lahtinen taking the students to the sky

Story: Johanna Peltola
The higher levels of the IMP-life were concretely experienced after two IMPs headed their way to the local airport for an unforgettable flight. The flight event was arranged by the TAMK Aviation Club for the fifth time.

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Leticia and Laura preparing the smart screen for their Interactive Film Show

Story: Laura Quintana and Leticia Martin
When you come from Spain, Finland sounds far away… and sometimes, Tampere doesn’t even sound. “Where have you been those five months? – people now asks to us – Tampere – we answer – Oh… great… emmmm… good place…”.

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