Author: Andrew Walker

JOHOR BAHRU AND UTM GIVE GAMEFOUNDERS THE PERFECT START TO THE BIG ASIA TOUR

GameFounders kicked off the their Big Asia Tour with an event at the University Teknologi Malaysia featuring Unity Technologies and co-sponsored by UTM and the MagicX program. The event was a tremendous start for the events to follow in Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Manila, Tokyo, Bangkok, Pulau Pinang, and Kuala Lumpur – where it will all happen this fall. Over sixty developers and students in...

GAME INITIATIVE MEETUP

Yesterday, on May 13th, Game Initiative Meetup conference followed by reception at the Embassy of Sweden took place. Game Initiative Meetup brought together support structures  such as accelerators, incubators, training programmes and funds directed to seed-stage game studios to have an open discussion and define best practices of supporting game startups. Among the participants there were initiatives from Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Netherlands and Poland. In connection with...

WITH A MISSION TO HELP KIDS LEARN WHILE HAVING FUN- SMART ADVENTURE

Smart Adventure is the only company in the fourth batch that is dedicated exclusively to edutainment, therefore targeting a much different audience than the rest of the teams.  This company of 8 originates from Ukraine, all members are coming from educational background. Six people are based in Kyiv and two in Lviv. Currently only two members are in Estonia participating GameFounders, though. These two are...

VISITING FINNISH GAMING COMPANIES

It´s been almost 2 months since the new batch started. The teams have already met around 50+ mentors, networked with a great bunch of people in the events, have had 2 playtest days and many many sleepless nights developing their games and discussing ideas here in Tallinn. Now the demo days are moving forward almost with the speed of light. But before we pack our...

COMBINING CRAZY GAME IDEAS AND HARD WORK – ONEEYEANT FROM ARGENTINA

Now let´s take a mental trip over the ocean and visit Argentina for a moment. This is where our next team - OneEyeAnt – is coming from. Even though the team is actually a lot bigger in size, there are just 2 people currently residing in Tallinn – Federico Puopolo (game designer) and Gonzalo Ruggieri (2D artist). However, they are communicating daily with Melina Teruz...

FINALLY ANOTHER ESTONIAN STUDIO IN GAMEFOUNDERS – INTERACTIVE FATE

It´s time to introduce the second Estonian company in GameFounders´portfolio – Interactive Fate.  Behind this promising name we find Edvin Aedma (game designer), Veljo Hagu (programmer), Taavi Viikman (artist and animator) and Toomas Laasik who is assisting with coding and special effects. Joining GameFounders program has been a change to their lifestyle in many ways since the guys are not Tallinners and sometimes have to divide...

BRAZILIAN ADVENTURE IN THE FAR-AWAY-LAND CALLED NORTH – BITCAKE STUDIO

Our next team comes from the land of carnival, samba and great football. Can you guess? Yes, it´s Brazil! Turns out that besides all that was mentioned before, Brazilians can be also proud about some talented game developers out there. We have caught and brought to the cold and windy North one particular team. They are Camilla Slotfeldt (art director), Eduardo Lamhut (game designer), Jefferson...

TRIP TO SAKU BREWERY

Few weeks ago Gamefounders Spring ´14 batch and crew went on a journey to discover how one brewery actually functions and how do they make this life nectar that we call beer. Our target for this holy voyage, was one of Estonia’s oldest breweries – Saku Brewery. Saku Brewery is today one of the biggest trademarks in Estonian culture, being owned by the Carlsberg group. Our...

PLAYTESTING TIME!

Today we have the second playtesting day  for our Spring 2014 batch. This time we have 2 rounds of schoolkids coming  in -  Pärnu Vanalinna Põhikool and Sütevaka Gümnaasium in the morning and another round from Kadrioru Gümnaasium in the afternoon. Here is a little flashback from the playtesting we did 2 weeks ago. We had people over from Tallinn University and few more outside the...

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