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Games Now! Online Jam #5: Finland x South Korea | November 1-8, 2021

Games Now! Online Jam #5: Finland x South Korea is the fifth jam in a series of online game jams organized by Aalto University Games Now! lecture series.

The jam will be jointly held with the collaboration with the Game Contents School at Chungkang College of Cultural Industries, along with Aalto University, Department of Media.

You can join the jam, regardless of whether you are enrolled in the courses - the jam is open for anyone interested to participate and it is free of charge.

We will kick-off each jam with a 2 hour talk show on our Twitch-channel: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi

Schedule of the Games Now! Online Jam #5

Kick-off talk show: 1st November 2021, 13:00 -15:00 (EET) / 20:00 - 22:00 (KST) / 11:00 – 13:00 (UTC) @ https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi
Brainstorming and teaming exercise: 1st November 2021, 15:00 -16:00 (EET) / 22:00 - 23:00 (KST) / 13:00 – 14:00 (UTC) @GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
Progress reports and help throughout the week, at GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
Submission deadline: 7th November 15:00 (EET) / 22:00 (KST) / 13:00 (UTC)
Review talk show: 8st November 2021, 13:00 -15:00 (EET) / 20:00 - 22:00 (KST) / 11:00 – 13:00 (UTC) @ https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi

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The Kick-off lecture:

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Games Now! 2021-22 continues the online jams with expert speakers! This year we focus on cultural exchange by looking at the inspirational histories of different countries and communities. The fifth Games Now! Online Jam has been timed so that especially Finnish and South-Korean game students and professionals could take part in the shared event. Despite this, the jam is still open for anyone interested in creating their first, second, third, or nth game! The starting point will be the expert-driven lectures where our chosen experts on the national histories of games. In this jam, Solip Park and Mikko Heinonen will open up their personal design gambits drawing from the existing games from Finland and Korea. At the end of the jam, they will also pick their favorite games and further explore the cultural differences and similarities.

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Experts!

Solip Park

Solip Park is a doctoral student at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture. Her research interest is focused on digital game production culture and immigrants/expats game creators. She is also the creator of “Game Expats Story” comic series, illustrating the stories of immigrants in the video game industry. Before coming to Finland, Solip worked as one of the founding members of Nexon Computer Museum in South Korea – the museum about computer and video games.

Mikko Heinonen

Mikko Heinonen started collecting and cataloging old digital games and systems in the early 1990s and founded the Pelikonepeijoonit collective with Manu Pärssinen and his brother Ville Heinonen in 1999. Pelikonepeijoonit has been instrumental in preserving and presenting the history of digital gaming in Finland since the 2000s, and their work culminated in the establishment of the Finnish Museum of Games in 2017. Much of the Pelikonepeijoonit collection is now on display and playable in the museum.

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