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Some pics from the third day of the TAMK Art, Music and Media International week at Mediapolis. You can read more from the iWeek blog ! United Studios United Studios Photorealistic 3D in Blender workshop Free to Play workshop Connected neighborhoods workshop - What is a 100 meters? Connected neighborhoods workshop - What is a 100 meters?  Photos: Carita Forsgren 2016

Games as a Service: Free to Play workshop by Simon Rozner (Rovio) and Howell Istance (TAMK, UTA) The workshop kicked off with a very informative session of the basics and highlights of free to play mobile games.      Simply finding a correct and precise definition for this type of game helped us redefine what the game should aim for.   As with most products, knowledge of your customer is key to building a service that is aimed to particular needs and limitations. Free to play games require developers to truly understand who they are designing for.      After learning about the important elements, we dove into exercises which helped us improve our chosen game (in our case, a game we are building for a Museum). We developed extra elements and incorporated them into our game to add a little extra to it. I believe our game has became much more with all the extra elements that we have added thanks to this workshop. All in all, I have enjoyed the workshop and believe the informat

Hi all, Now it starts: Welcome to the 9th International week’s opening ceremony on Tuesday morning at 10.00 (KINO)! Hope you enjoy the programme http://artmusicmediaweek.tamk.fi/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iweek9_timetable1.pdf and explore as many workshops, seminars etc. as possible! On behalf of the organizing team, -timo- *************** Timo Kivikangas Head of Degree Programme in Media and Arts Tampere University of Applied Sciences +358 40 8698840 timo.kivikangas@tamk.fi www.tamk.fi

Here is some practical information on how to get to the TAMK Art, Music and Media entrance exam. The Entrance Exam is arranged at TAMK School of Art, Music and Media at the Mediapolis Campus, Tohlopinranta 31 , 33270 Tampere . The Mediapolis area is located 6,5 km from the Tampere city center. http://www.mediapolis.fi/en/   Buses number 8, 17 and 36 run from the city center to the Mediapolis area. The ride from Tampere Central Square (Keskustori) to Mediapolis takes approximately 20-30 minutes. Timetables of the buses are available on the TKL-website http://reittiopas.tampere.fi/en/#mapcenter%28kkj3*3326933*6823534%29. Note that a single-fare ticket costs 3 € , and a day ticket is 6,50 €. Once you are at the bus stop, go on your right, where the Mediapolis sign is visible.  Just follow that road until the end. (Not quite a yellow brick road...) Then, you'll find the Mediapolis main entrance on your left. You'll find the registration desk in our main lobby... After you ha