Score Game Jam. Photo by Tuuli Saarinen

Story by Janne Jaakkola
Game Development Club Score decided to end the summer season with Score Game Jam 2010 event. This game development marathon, held in Demola, had 13 eager jammers and a handful of organizers. The point of the event was to brainstorm, team up and create a game in just 42 hours! In addition to the time constraint, all the games had implement the common theme. This time the theme was "Everything is different", which gave a very free reign to the designers.

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Photographs that move
Photography Exhibition by Douglas Symon
Part 1: Pirkkala
30th August - 11th September
Metso Library, Pirkankatu 2 Tampere
Opening times:
Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm
Sat 10am - 4pm

Story and photos: Douglas Symon

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New Zealander Paul Pivec and Slovenian Maja Pivec are the main organisers of the Summer School

Demola will this week be the venue for the Engage Game Design Summer School. The  international Summer School will tackle issues related to game design as well as how to embed curricular topics in the game design.

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The Students' Union of Tampere University of Applied Sciences (Tamko) has chosen Cai Melakoski, the Head of Degree Programme in Media, as the staff person of the academic year 2009 - 2010.

“This is the biggest honor you can get at TAMK”, said Cai Melakoski after he found out he was chosen the staff person of the year. Melakoski started working as the Head of the Degree Programme in Media in autumn 2009, but he has worked at TAMK Art and Media for nearly 20 years. His work has included teaching, R&D and marketing. The latest “thing” for Cai has been TAMK’s blogs. He has helped to create not only the Art and Media blog, but also other TAMK blogs - including the one you’re reading right how!

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New IMPs marking their home towns on the map

The second edition of Degree Programme in Media, IMP, started last week. Below the impressions of the first week by one of the new students, Tia Tuovinen:

With Austrian, Estonian, Russian, French, British, and Norwegian twist we are a lot more than just a regular group of students. Our colorful IMP-team has worked well for the first 4 days including all the extracurricular activities. Hopefully we will become more friends than rivals. Many of us share the same goals and future career ideals which may lead to competition and comparing ourselves to others in an unhealthy way.

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The Blue Sea Film Festival celebrated this weekend has invited seven films made by our students to compete in the 17th edition of the Baltic Herring short film competition. The Blue Sea Film Festival shows films from the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea.

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Champion Anna in the centre with the Mölkky and pin number 1

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Text: Lauri-Matti Parppei & Marja Pihlaja
Shot by first year students of Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Aarnipuu is a short film about Mikko - a full-time poet and an occasional lumberjack. He meets an activist girl underneath a big old tree he's supposed to chop off. Two different persons try to understand each other and are not so different after all.

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The new Media, Fine Art and Film&Television degree students arrived today.

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PIENET - The SMALL ONES
Resin, plastic animals
June 1 - August 31
By Laura Laukkanen and Fanni Maliniemi, the official City of Tampere summer artists 2010
Pedestrian street between the Academic Bookstore and Stockmann

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• What is left after the icecaps melt down?
• Do security cameras bring security?
• Will a floating summer cottage save you?

Story: Essi Santala
Tulevaisuuskuvia exhibition brings together various fields of science and art in order to further explore the pressing questions that will affect our common future. The exhibition has been formed through a collaboration of artists from the Pirkanmaa region and of future studies experts.

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TAMK Finlayson Campus from back

Finlayson Campus is more international than ever this autumn. New nationalities are present among Degree Programme in Media students, we welcome 21 exchange students (new record), and MA in Screenwriting hosts five international students.

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Text: Eevi Korhonen
Just a final report from the Assembly team. All of the equipment has been returned intact to their rightful places, but unfortunately we managed to get a parking ticket for our minibus. So the trip back wasn't a complete success, but almost.

We also have some statistics from Assembly, though only regarding the games we showed.

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Text and photos: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student
(Sorry for the late post, I thought I'd already posted this. So confusing with two blogs and too little sleep...)

The fourth day dawned with a sad feeling, and it was time to start packing and heading home. The Sunday mentality started to take over the Arena, but the most cunnign had already started to disassemble their computer places in order to avoid the post-closing-ceremonyt rush. The people from TiKo had decided to join them, and since they'd been staying awake almost throughout whole Assembly, I think it was the right option.


The emptied booth

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Picture from yesterday's air guitar competition. The competition song was Lordi's ""Hard Rock Hallelujah"

Text and photos: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student

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Eevi explains about the ArtTech seminar:

Today's big event for us was the ArtTech seinar we held together with the other schools titled"Game Development Education, Clubs, and Cooperative Organizations in Finland". Each school had 10 minutes to showcase their programmes and game projects and we finished with a shared 15 min panel on the schools' co-operatives and cooperation. I was represented our school on both occasions (though I didn't mean to). In the 10 min slot I told about our 5D2 project, even though as an afterthought it would've been good to spend couple of minutes going over the Media programme, too. But I think our marketing will speak for itself anyway (today I've dropped off about a hundred leaflets all over the Areena).

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Text and photos: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student

Greetings from Assembly!

Finally I have enough time to blog about the first day's events, and because pictures equal a thousand words, I've used them quite a lot in this entry. Day started slowly, as we left off an hour later than planned, which was not surprising. We had to make a detour to our driver's home and pick up some gas before finally heading towards Helsinki. We made it to Hartwall Areena without further incident, and so we could start building the booth.

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The sixth Reikäreuna Film Festival will take place from September 9-12 2010 in Orivesi, Finland.
The Film Competition received 104 entries, out of which 19 domestic short films were presented to the jury. A selection of the other entries will be presented at four thematically organised screenings.

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Text: Eevi Korhonen, 09IMP student
There's only one day between us and the Assembly. We'll be leaving early on Thursday morning to be at the site building our booth before the hordes of nerds overtake the Arena. We'll be blogging all the way to Sunday, so this announces our at least four-chapter-long tale of booth watching, computers and gallons of energy drink. So stay tuned to this blog!

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