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23rd of April 2024 – Bit1 – PreBit at Jyväskylä coming with via Meetup, join now!

23rd of April 2024 – Bit1 – PreBit at Jyväskylä coming with via Expa / IGDAJKL Meetup, join now!

Once again, we at Bit1 are choosing the best student game of the year! Get your team together and enter the competition!


What’s Bit1?
 

Bit1 competition gathers game developers and their teams together to showcase their talent and their games. The Bit1 jury is made of game industry professionals, and they will be judging and giving feedback to competing games. The winning team will get to go to the Finnish Game Awards and pitch at the main stage. Competitors will get invaluable contacts to the industry and to each other.

 

Competition 

Competition starts with preliminaries in April. Teams will give 3 min pitches, 2 min Q&A and afterwards judges will playtest each competing game individually.

From Prebits two best teams will move forward to the finals held in May. The teams going to the final will get personal mentoring from one of the PreBit’s judges to improve their game before the finals.

This year the PreBit in Rovaniemi will take place on 23rd April, at Digi & Game Center (time coming).

 

Submitting your entry 

Your game can be single or multiplayer and can be made for any platform. Teams’ registration is already open! You can sign up your team on our website www.bit1.fi. Note that following material is mandatory for submitting your entry:

  • Game design canvas (can be downloaded from our website)
  • Link to 1 min video of the core loop
  • make sure you answer all the entry form’s questions

 

Please note that we do not expect everything looking polished when you apply, but the core loop must be playable. The emphasis is on your game concept, design ideas and plans.


Interested?
 

Check our Bit1 website for more information like rules and application form!

If you have any questions, contact:

Mira Oja
email: mira.oja@expa.fi

Tuomas Roininen
email: tuomas.roininen@expa.fi

WELCOME

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2024 (28.05.2024) – TBA

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup  02/2024

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Guest: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date
: Tuesday 28.05.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with TBA
18:30 Q&A with TBA
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 3/2024 Teemu Vilén, Makea Games

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup  03/2024

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Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 3 / 2024

In the March meetup, we dive into the Eternal questions in Game development. Come to Digi & Game Center and hear what Teemu Vilén has to say about the subject.

 

Guest: Teemu Vilén, COO at Makea Games
Topic: Game development with those pesky humans
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date
: Tuesday 26.03.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Teemu’s presentation
18:30 Q&A with Teemu Vilén, COO at Makea Games
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2024 (23.04.2024) – TBA

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup  04/2024

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Guest: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date
: Tuesday 23.04.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with TBA
18:30 Q&A with TBA
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2/2024 Tarmo Jussila, Zaibatsu Interactive

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup 2/2024 Tarmo Jussila, Zaibatsu Interactive

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Guest: Tarmo Jussila, CTO at Zaibatsu Interactive
Topic: My Game Industry journey

Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 27.02.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä

– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://lnkd.in/dqPkebC

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Tarmo Jussila’s presentation
18:30 Q&A
19:00 Free mingling on-site

 

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

 

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event. This time we have students from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences showcasing their games. Come and check them out!

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #1 / 2024 (30.01.2024) with Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #1 / 2024

Let’s start 2024 with a bang, shall we?

We’re honoured to announce, that Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore is our first meetup speaker of the year!

The topic of the evening is as follows:
“How to stand out in mobile in 2024

The predictions for 2024 are in – and it looks like competition will only increase in an already saturated mobile games market. Based on their experiences of scaling Merge Mansion into a global hit game with over 50M downloads, Metacore CEO and Co-Founder Mika explores how Finnish mobile games can stand out with their brand in an increasingly competitive, still largely UA-driven market.”

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #1 / 2024

Guest: Mika Tammenkoski, CEO / CO-Founder of Metacore
Topic: How to stand out in mobile in 2024
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date: Tue 30.01.2024
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2, Jyväskylä
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, Mika Tammenkoski’s presentation
18:30 Q&A with Mika Tammenkoski
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions are welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

 

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

“Day Zero“at Digi & Game Center 9th of Nov!

“Day Zero“at Digi & Game Center!

We shall have a day before the main event a “Day Zero” networking event at multiple times awarded Coworking space and Ecosystem Digi Game Center (DGC). Digi & Game Center is also the place where IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetups happens now days.  The Premises are just 15 min from Matkakeskus by walking or about 5 min walk from Jyväskylä city center .

Get to know the premises and network: 14.00-18.00 (2-6pm)

Sauna at the DGC 20:00-23.00

Read more about: Digi & Game Center

This is day event is open for all, but we would like to know how many is visiting so please do sign via Eventbrite too: Day Zero ticket

Special Speaker Event: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?” (24.08.2023)

Special Speaker Event: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?”

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Guest: Professor Tae-Jin Yoon
Topic: “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?”

Date
: Thursday, August 24th, from 11:15 to 12:00
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

 

Professor Tae-Jin Yoon (Graduate School of Communication and Arts, Yonsei University) will be visiting University of Jyväskylä – Jyväskylän yliopisto in August and will also give a public lecture on the topic “Female Game Players in Korea: Can they shoot guns?” at the Digi & Game Center on Thursday, August 24th, from 11:15 to 12:00. 🗨️

 

Tae-Jin Yoon is also the president of the Korean Game-n-Science Institute, and he has been teaching and writing about media-related topics for over 20 years. Yoon’s research has explored topics such as TV shows, video games, esports, webtoons and the “Korean wave” phenomenon. 🕹️
Welcome to join and listen to his intriguing presentation!

 

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Special Meetup with Epic Games (04.07.2023)

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Special Meetup with Epic Games (04.07.2023)

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Guest: Ari Arnbjörnsson, Evangelist at Epic Games
Topic: Epic Games and Unreal Engine
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date
: Tue 04.07.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with Ari Arnbjörnsson
18:30 Q&A with Ari Arnbjörnsson
19:00 Free mingling on-site

Hope to see as many as can at the site Digi & Game Center to meet Ari in person!

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup #8 / 2023 (28.11.2023) – TBA –

Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Hybrid Meetup #5 / 2023

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Guest: TBA
Topic: TBA
Time: 18:00
Interviewer: Wanda O Rly (Valtteri Lahti, chairman of Expa)

Date
: Tue 28.11.2023
Where: LIVE @ Digi & Game Center, Matarankatu 2
– STREAM on Expa’s Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/expajkl

SCHEDULE
17:30 Doors open
18:00 Streaming starts, interview with TBA
18:30 Q&A with TBA
19:00 Free mingling on-site

#DemoCornerJKL is open for all to showcase their things at event

The event is FREE and open for all, language of the Meetup event is English! – Invite your friends, questions welcome throughout the event.

Be there – Socialize – Get Expa!