{"id":7562,"date":"2020-08-11T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:35:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T08:35:54","slug":"games-now-open-lecture-series-is-coming-back-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/blog\/news\/7562-games-now-open-lecture-series-is-coming-back-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Games Now! open lecture series is coming back in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Games Now! is an open lecture series on the dominant topics and emerging trends in games. In the new academic year 2020-2021, Games Now! invites Aalto students, staff, teachers, as well as non-Aalto individuals who are interested in the latest stories of the game scene. The course registration started on August 10th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, Games Now! invited numerous video game experts to Otaniemi each month covering a wide range of topics of game development, art, business, project management, education, research, and technology. But due to COVID-19 pandemic and safety measures imposed throughout Aalto University, Games Now! 2020-201 will be fully conducted online.\u00a0Anyone can tune in the lecture by using the game streaming platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/gamesnowaaltofi\">Twitch.tv<\/a>, and join their <a href=\"https:\/\/discord.gg\/YsgagHX\">Discord <\/a>channel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7566\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow2.png 458w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7568\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow3.png 458w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/08\/gamesnow3-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 98vw, (max-width: 1199px) 64vw, 458px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Games Now! is also looking for Aalto students to join their production team, to promote the lecture and its online community.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSczMppAFg_MUo2e7Er60p7tXJzB-Lg3_jMtgpAIJaGCYAzMZw\/viewform\">Find out more here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Games Now! 2020-2021 schedule<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>28 SEPTEMBER 2020 \u201cSubscription Services for Games\u201d <\/strong>Heikki Repo (Creative Director at Cornfox &amp; Brothers)<\/li>\n<li><strong>26 OCTOBER 2020 \u201cPsychology of Sound Design\u201d <\/strong>Rob Carr, Senior Sound Designer (Redhill Games)<\/li>\n<li><strong>23 NOVEMBER 2020 \u201cPublishing Games in China\u201d <\/strong>Mikael Leinonen, CEO &amp; Co-founder (MyGamez)<\/li>\n<li><strong>7 DECEMBER 2020 \u201cExergaming panel discussion\u201d <\/strong>Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken, CEO &amp; Co-Founder &amp; Senior Researcher (Sphery &amp; Zurich University) \/ Raine Kajastila, CEO (Valo Motion) \/ Perttu H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen, Assistant professor (Aalto University &amp; Valo Motion) \/ Stephan Niedecken, CFO &amp; Co-Founder (Sphery)<\/li>\n<li><strong>25 JANUARY 2021 \u201cFounding a (Finnish) Game Company, Again!\u201d <\/strong>Karoliina Korppoo, CEO and Creative Director (10th Muse) \/ Samuli Syv\u00e4huoko<\/li>\n<li><strong>15 FEBRUARY 2021 \u201cBuilding Sustainable Gaming Cultures\u201d <\/strong>Mikko Meril\u00e4inen, Postdoctoral researcher (Tampere University)<\/li>\n<li><strong>29 MARCH 2021 \u201cFostering Playful Experiences with Wearables\u201d <\/strong>O\u011fuz \u2018Oz\u2019 Buruk, Marie Curie Fellow (Gamification Group, Tampere University)<\/li>\n<li><strong>19 APRIL 2021 \u201cNext Generation of Interactive Streaming\u201d <\/strong>Katleen Evers, EMEA Business Development and Developer Relations (Genvid Technologies Inc.) \/ Robin Squire, CEO (Black Block)<\/li>\n<li><strong>3 MAY 2021 \u201cArt of Learning by Doing \u2013 The Great Game Jam Panel\u201d <\/strong>Samuli J\u00e4\u00e4skel\u00e4inen, Software Engineer (Varjo) \/ Christina Lassheikki (Aalto University)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To see detailed date and time for each lecture, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/gamesnow.aalto.fi\/\">http:\/\/gamesnow.aalto.fi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Games Now! is run by Aalto University\u2019s Media Lab and is open to the public. 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The course registration started on August 10th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2013, Games Now! invited numerous video game experts to Otaniemi each month covering a wide range of topics of game development,<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/blog\/news\/7562-games-now-open-lecture-series-is-coming-back-in-september\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":7564,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[252,250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7570,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7562\/revisions\/7570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlinelearning.aalto.fi\/aol\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}