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My initial feeling about this trip was excitement! It was awesome to get to attend Nordic Game this year! It was the 12 th time the conference was held and it promised good times right from the start based on the speakers and the nominees. The indie game night was the absolute highlight of the event in my opinion. The nominees were fresh and interesting! Besides, it is always a rare treat to get to play the game while chatting with the developers themselves.   It turned out that I had a lot of favourites among the speakers, but here I have been trying to concentrate on the ones that fit the subject of ”The Future of Gaming”. They raised a lot of hopes and questions in my head about the future and I will try my best to sum it up here. The Future of Gaming It seems that Virtual Reality will be a huge part of the future of games. There is a lot of going on on that front today since we are currently living in a historical period where it is actually possible to make affordable VR devic...

This spring, the TAMK students of the Mediapolis campus have been creating something entirely new. Mediapolis, as many already know, is a media campus in Tampere, Finland, where the creative industries and technology are combined. The Tampere University of Applied Sciences students, together with the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE and media entrepreneurs have incubated a crossmedia publishing platform called Test Chamber Mediapolis . ( www.testchamber.fi ). Test Chamber Mediapolis is a place where brave new programming ideas generated by TAMK students can be published. The Test Chamber has been optimized for today's changing media environment, where the traditional rules of television programmin and film making will be challenged and jumped over. The Test Chamber Mediapolis (or TCMP) got started from a known need: Traditional television programming has become less than interesting for part of the viewers. There have been several hits in YouTube series, but almost none of these h...

TAMK thesis films, which have been completed during this school year in the DP on Film and TV, will be watched on Wednesday 27th of May at Finnkino Plevna 2. The screening will begin at 6 pm and it will last approximately one hour. Free entry and anyone can join, welcome! Films: * Mielesi varjossa * Call of Lepus * Virheetön Banaani * Voitan koko maailman, mutta en sinua Emma * Retki * Pineal * Noidantuli

Brighton is a city at the South Coast of England. It is known for its beautiful seafront and the amazing small alleys with pubs and small stores. Once a year Brighton turns into the Mecca of the European music scene. The Great Escape Festival – Europes leading music festival for new music – takes over the city and brings the hottest new acts from all over to the local stages. Also this year a group of TAMK students was allowed to be part of this great experience and travelled for five days to Great Britain.   OUR THE GREAT ESCAPE - BRITAIN DIARY WEDNESDAY, 13.05.2015 It is around noon when we leave our beloved Tampere direction Helsinki airport and early evening when we land in London/Gatwick and the country of the Queen and Fish & Chips. After we get our luggage (and yes, this time nothing got lost!), we continue our travelling to Brighton. Our hotel is located next to the seafront and offers a great view to the Sussex Coast. Also Peppiina - who was coming from Leeuwarden/Neth...

What are these people looking at so intensely? The Visual design minor students from TAMK Media were on the yearly visit to Helsinki. It was supposed to be a warm day, but a chilly wind blew from the sea, and it was mostly raining. But the places we went to were still interesting. First, we visited Fjord 's Helsinki office in the city centre, and heard fascinating facts about service design. After Fjord, the group split up: one half went with Simona Vitalini to visit Brink Helsinki, while the rest took off to Töölö with Tuomo Joronen and Carita Forsgren, in order to go to the animation company Gigglebug . And that's where the image above was taken: everyone sits engrossed, watching one of the new season's animatics. Did you know that one of the fathers of Gigglebug (the character and the company) is Joonas Utti , who graduated from TAMK Media not long ago? After Gigglebug and Brink, we all met again in the old Maria hospital, at the company Muotohiomo , whose managing dir...

TAMK Interactive Media student Riikka Uhmavaara took part in a logo competition for the European Commission, the E-mark U-Trust. And guess what: she came in second! In addition to that, she got a job offer from the European Commission. Not bad at all. Here's a video of the award ceremony. Congratulations to Riikka!

Father and Heikki from the work titled Four portraits: mother, grandmother, Heikki and father (2014) Frederiksborg Slot and The Museum of National History , Denmark Hillerød, is exhibiting  Portrait Now2015!  during 8.5.-31.7.2015. Hinni Huttunen has graduated as Bachelor of Fine arts from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in the spring 2014. She was awarded in the exhibition with her thesis work for Tampere University of Applied Sciences  Four portraits: mother, grandmother, Heikki and father  (2014) with the Young Talent Nordic -prize. The exhibition was organized this year the fifth time and there were 1346 works submitted and 129 works are now shown in the exhibition. http://www.dnm.dk/UK/Forside.htm http://portrait-award.com/ Text & photos: Hinni Huttunen