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11:15–11:45 – Strategy Deployment and Leadership // Dr. Gregory O’Shea, Lappeenranta University of Technology 11:45–12:15 – Deeptech Startup Leadership // Maria Jensen, CEO, Antler Bio 12:15–12:20 – Break 12:20–12:50 – Entrepreneurial thinking in Leadership // Dr. Seppo Luoto, Lappeenranta University of Technology 13:50–14:00 – Summary and Conclusions Welcome to all sessions! I hope you are doing well with your studies. Do not miss our IVGC Discord community. We are there for you to support your journey. Best regards, Jan, Course Leader and IVGC Team making this course possible

Dear Student of Introduction to Video Games Creation -course Do NOT miss these talks, they are all free of charge and LIVE ONLINE. We talk about the games industry, you will hear a story how you as a games student can setup a game studio, develop and publish a game! And next week we talk about VR game development and then about Strategy and Leadership. TOMORROW! Tuesday 23.1. 15.00 UTC: Setting up a game studio and publish a successful game by students, a case story by Jaakko Mela and Samuli Kosonen, Co-Founders of Normogames. https://normogames.com/index.html Register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/wpRhMAEvl... Tuesday 30.1. 19:00 UTC: An evening chat with James Shepherd about VR development , Head of Studio, nDreams. Registration is required, please do it here: Register on MS Teams. EXTRA: Wednesday 31.1. at 11.00UTC: In collaboration with XAMK and Edufication. Masterclass: Business Strategy and Leadership. Register here: Masterclass: Business Strategy and Leadership - Edufication Details about the talks: Tuesday 23.1. 15.00 UTC: Setting up a game studio and publish a successful game by students, a case story by Jaakko Mela and Samuli Kosonen, Co-Founders of Normogames. https://normogames.com/index.html When I was visiting in Finland and participated at a gaming event in Kotka I met a very promising and enthusiastic group of young game developers who I'd like to present to you. After the event I contacted their marketing manager Jaakko, telling me more about their story and I thought it would be a perfect subject for a webinar in the future where they could talk about how they came together and managing their own game company. This will be a very instructive and interesting lecture for anyone who's interested to create their own gaming company one day. Please register to the event in order to get the event link sent to your email address directly: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/wpRhMAEvl... Here's more about Normogames: www.normogames.com Normogames was founded in the summer of 2022. The team consists of 6 individuals, all studying for a degree in game programming engineering at Xamk (Kotka campus). They have developed 3 games, all of which have been released on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=_AS... Their latest game, The Riflemen, was published by Bonus Stage Publishing. Go and download it before the lecture, it is free of charge! The team comprises 3 coders, 2 graphic designers, and 1 audio specialist, allowing them to create all assets for their games in-house. In 2022, they won the Bit1 competition for the best student game in Finland, and they were awarded at the Finnish Game Awards. Additionally, Normogames won the title of the best startup company in South Kymenlaakso in both 2022 and 2023. Their office is located in Karhula, Kotka, Finland at the Cursor startup hub. Tuesday 30.1. 19:00 UTC: An evening chat with James Shepherd about VR development, Head of Studio, nDreams. TIGA and BAFTA award winner James Shepherd, your instructor, will be talking about his VR projects and you'll have a great chance to ask questions directly to him! His latest game is Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord for PSVR and Meta Quest 2/3. Learn from James how to develop VR games. Link to the official trailer: Youtube.com/watch?v=ju-kSG_LztM Register to the event here: Register on MS Teams. EXTRA: Wednesday 31.1. at 11.00UTC: In collaboration with XAMK and Edufication. Masterclass: Business Strategy and Leadership. This Masterclass is about Strategy and Leadership in growing and innovative companies. Our discussion will embrace imagination, creativity, innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, markets, market positioning, competition, communication and presentation and not business school theory. Register here: Masterclass: Business Strategy and Leadership - Edufication Agenda: all times UTC+0, so e.g. Finland it is 13.00. 11:00–11:15 – Welcome and Introductions // Dr. Jan Storgårds, Academic Programme Leader

Hello @everyone ! Here's the recording of today's New Year Welcome Webinar for New Students: https://netorgft889409-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/luca_cadgi_org/EUs9JeDhEvhJj3Yn4Ww9VBgBnqYOnp6E_OFgmGUjHU1u0A?e=9wFojc&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D Read more about the upcoming webinar with Normogames next week Tuesday, 23.01.2024 15 UTC here: ⁠📢announcements⁠ You can register to it and read all the details here: http://tinyurl.com/bdp3y9tb

New Year Welcome Webinar: http://tinyurl.com/y5npjhmd Let's start the year with a New Year Welcome Webinar for New Students on Tuesday 16.01.2023 at 15:00-16:30 UTC. Come and join our welcome webinar for new participants of IVGC course! Meet Course Leader, Dr. Jan Storgårds, the Student Advisers and other fellow students. It is free of charge and anyone interested is welcome. You can invite your friends too, even if they are not yet registered to the course, maybe they will like it so much they'll join along so you can study together! Registration is required, please d

https://lnkd.in/gQUJuHZq I am thrilled to share my latest accomplishment in completing Xamk's Introduction to Video Games Creation course module 6 and advancing the game to its current state. I am proud to have successfully completed this course and have been left with a highly positive impression. I would like to express my gratitude to the IVGC's course team for providing its students with the opportunity to learn and gain valuable insights into the world of Game Development.

Ok. So, let's start the Spring 2024 Season. We will carry on with our lecture -series like we did successfully last Autumn. We organised 10+ Tuesday afternoon lectures of different types including Industry Talks and Module lectures. Thanks everyone for joining. It is much better experience for you when you are online, as you can chat with everyone and ask directly questions from the speakers. January talks: Tuesday 16.1. 15.00 UTC: New Year Welcome Webinar for New (and old) Students , Dr. Jan Storgards, Course Leader with Luca and Nick, your student advisers. Register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/wpRhMAEvl... Tuesday 23.1. 15.00 UTC: Setting up a game studio and publish a successful game by students, a case story by Jaakko Mela and Samuli Kosonen, Co-Founders of Normogames. https://normogames.com/index.html Register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/wpRhMAEvl... Tuesday 30.1. 19:00 UTC: An evening chat with James Shepherd about VR development , Head of Studio, nDreams.

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Dear Students of IVGC, We are happy to invite you to our newest event on 19th of December, at 19UTC. The talk is presented by James Shepherd, talking about his experiences at nDreams and Head of Studio, developing VR games. James Shepherd is CEO of Cypherdelic and Head of Studio at nDreams, who just recently published Ghostbusters VR. James has received Baftas and a Develop award for his outstanding executive work and has delivered multi-million selling products. At Microsoft James created the Xbox One and Xbox live games community ‘Upload’, and the app, ‘Upload Studio’, generating a 6.5 million user base, and 10+ million views in the initial 12 month launch window. At Sony he had 6 years’ experience as director of a multi project development studio, managing dev teams of up to two hundred people, delivering triple ‘A’ products internally and externally on all PlayStation platforms, including, ‘Heavenly Sword’, (PS3, 1.6m units, 79% Metacritic) and ‘LittleBigPlanet’, (PSP, 2.5m units, 87% Metacritic). As you might know, nDreams just realeased their newest VR title, Ghostbuster: Rise of the Ghost Lord almost two months ago. You can check out the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtdI3F_n4Y&t=1s You can read more about nDreams, and see more of their titles here: https://ndreams.com/about It is a great chance to hear James talking about multiple VR projects and ask him anything VR related that could be on your mind. You can invite your friends too even if you're not registered to the course, maybe they will like it so much that they will join on your learning journey to study together! Registration is required, please do it here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/wpRhMAEvlEq42e5epkPRmw,IfzXUO0cAUOrVQ_SesxNLw,88ZWpdxEGkehCMG78l25tw,IOIEV0nRtkmQnGKUcs_3XQ,5kDSI8huTEizu9D0gSOejg,Hh8cQn05TU26PpKDmFUYIg?mode=read&tenantId=306194c2-2f01-4a94-b8d9-ee5ea643d19b Half an hour before James presentation, at 18:30UTC, Dr. Jan Storgårds, our Course Leader will talk to you about some possible changes in the Finnish educational system that could have an impact on the course and take away the free possibility to learn. To help us fight against this, please come and hear what he has to say and how you could join us to hopefully prevent this. To see what 18:30 UTC and 19 UTC means in your time-zone, please check out this UTC converter: https://savvytime.com/converter/utc Agenda (all in UTC): 18:30 - Dr. Jan's talk about possible important change in the course 19:00 - James Shepherd's presentation about his experiences developing VR games with nDreams. 21:00 - End of the webinar Hope to see you there! Best Wishes, The IVGC Team

Dear Students of Introduction to Video Games Creation Course! We are asking for your help to keep this course free of charge in 2024 as well. This is a serious and true situation, so please pay attention to the following. The new Finnish government is under pressure to make public spending cuts. The Finnish education system, fully funded by public funds, is now facing significant and negative impacts from the new government policies. This includes the Finnish Open University system, of which the IVGC course is a part, funded by the Finnish government through XAMK’s educational programs. These policy changes are not made by XAMK as a university. There is a considerable pressure to introduce a fee for each credit you study. We want the IVGC course to be open and free for everyone, no matter where you are from. We are striving to keep the course free of charge for the year 2024. Although prospects look promising (so there's no need for excessive worry), the sudden policy changes in November have left us uncertain about the situation from January 1, 2024. Yes, few weeks from now. We already have 80,000+ students from over 140 countries, and we aim to keep it that way and grow the community. This is what we need you to do to help us: 1. Study as many credits as possible before the end of the year to secure them free of any fees. In the worst case, if we must charge for each future credit you study, it would start sometime in January/February. So, all you study now is secured free. Obviously, the worst possible changes will not apply to credits studied this year, 2023, and studies before. Also, if you have NOT studied anything yet, study M10 History of Games NOW, as then you have secured your ‘right to study’ when your first credit is entered into the Finnish University credits registry. https://uk.surveymonkey.com/r/5TN9MPM M16 and M17 are also very interesting and popular modules, complete them NOW if not yet': https://cambridge-academy-of-gaming-and-innovation.teachable.com/courses/395908/lectures/44238237 https://cambridge-academy-of-gaming-and-innovation.teachable.com/courses/395908/lectures/44238245 2. Share the registration link with your friends NOW, immediately. To show the significance of IVGC in working towards these goals, we need to seriously grow the number of students constantly and all the time, also to keep the course free of charge. We kindly ask you to share the registration link now with all your friends and on social media: https://www.xamk.fi/en/open-amk-courses/introduction-to-video-games-creation/?fbclid=IwAR3Tgn7g8As0DAepUH4bIpqeXQk2_ZGRPyC8IhE8_x5Jx2iv1S3CHXTZby4 3. Give your feedback and let’s send a positive message to the decision-makers. Please go and give feedback about the course with this survey: https://forms.gle/v3pGeWCxssJjHN9y8 The reason is, we want to emphasize why the course is important to YOU and to us and everyone, by promoting free, modern, and fun education for all and internationally. We expect a 1.000 answers to make this impactful 😊 So, please spend 5 minutes to secure your course to be free of charge 2024. Yours Sincerely, Jan, Course Leader and IVGC Team

Hi @everyone ! 🙂 Come and join our next FREE lecture about 'Innovation in Games - M12' on December12th, 15-17 UTC! (in your local time that means it starts at: 12. joulukuuta 2023, klo 15.00) The aim of this class is to get you to learn about the games industry and innovation in games and to complete Module 12 from IVGC course. @Dr Jan Storgards Course Leader will introduce you to the module and explain why it is so interesting and beneficial to study. During the lecture it is highly recommended that you keep the quiz open (linked in the modules 12 assignment page on Teachable), so you can easily fill it and earn 1 ETCS. Of course, if you already completed this module you can still attend the class. It is a good opportunity to learn more, refresh your memory and to ask questions and have interesting discussions. You can also invite your friends even if they are not registered yet to there course! 🔥 Registration is required, you can do it here: https://tinyurl.com/yckbb2rh Discord link (please note that it's not enough to push 'Interested' in the discord link, you need to register on the registration link in order to get the event invite link sent to your email address): https://discord.gg/B6GZfKFav3?event=1182368800209903646 Also, here's the recording of Tuesday's webinar, about Improve your essay writing and English grammar with Upcopy.Ai! presented by Pallav Sethiya, you can check it out to learn more about this very practical and useful grammar tool: https://netorgft889409-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/luca_cadgi_org/Ea8Uszqm6hdEjYyccJTAHo8BKqrqpTrflOyysJTQ30pUgg?e=7hAErO&nav=eyJyZWZlcnJhbEluZm8iOnsicmVmZXJyYWxBcHAiOiJTdHJlYW1XZWJBcHAiLCJyZWZlcnJhbFZpZXciOiJTaGFyZURpYWxvZy1MaW5rIiwicmVmZXJyYWxBcHBQbGF0Zm9ybSI6IldlYiIsInJlZmVycmFsTW9kZSI6InZpZXcifX0%3D

Come and learn about how to write good English! Pallav and Upcopy.AI talking NOW here: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjQ2OTFjY2EtNTZkOS00N2Y5LThjYzAtNmU4NTNlNGExMDNi%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22306194c2-2f01-4a94-b8d9-ee5ea643d19b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c98b4de5-f948-4f29-9a4c-1344daaf199a%22%7d

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