Manse Games '18 was hosted at Palatsi in center of Tampere. It's the first time it was made and the topic was free-to-play games so I thought it would be awesome experience to participate. And it was.
The event was free and they offered lunch, dinner and drinks. I'm surprised that nobody else (from our school) was interested in coming there.
The day started at 10am and ended at 8pm. There were 6 speakers about different game design, business and f2p topics.
Last 2 hours included 2 different panels. The first one had designers from Finnish game companies discussing their approach on F2P and mobile game designs.
The second panel had the heads of game companies in Tampere talking about the creation of their companies, the games that they have published and their future projects.
Overall, I really did like the event. It was nice to see what the Finnish game industry is up to and get some insight on what the people on the field do. Even if I hate doing "networking" it has to start somewhere I guess.
This event is also being hosted next year and I'm definitely going there.
Nice to see some thoughts about the actual event. It was kind of a bummer that the Facebook page didn't post anything about the actual happening. There was also critique about the panels that they were all male speakers. They did hear the feedback and promised to improve next year, but it's still kind of lazy in my opinion since Tampere has an active women in games community too I think.
ReplyDeleteSeems like most event I have been in are really lazy with their Facebook pages, guess that has something to do with the organizing teams being really small and nobody is really getting paid anything for it.
DeleteIf I had to guess the reason for there being few women, it's probably because they picked pretty niche topic (design and monetization) so maybe the pool of speakers isn't that big to begin with.
I wouldn't say that design is a niche topic at all. But yeah, looking forward to seeing what's going to happen next year.
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