Three awesome speakers with currents topics regarding our scene, community and role-play games. The talks will follow the short monologue format popularized by Ted Talks. One talk will be in Finnish, the others in English.
Leena Suoniemi-Särkijärvi - Koskaan ei ole liian myöhäistä
Uuden harrastuksen aloittaminen on aina jännittävää, joskus pelottavaakin. Kun eläkkeelle jäätyään miettii, miten päivänsä täyttäisi, useimmat eivät ehkä tulisi ajatelleeksi larppaamista. Larppaminen täyttää kuitenkin hyvälle harrastukselle asetettavat kriteerit: siinä saa uusia ystäviä ja tutustuu uusiin seutuihin, on opiskeltava yllättäviä asioita, joutuu ylittämään itsensä tuon tuostakin eikä pelatessa varmasti koskaan pitkästy.
Jose Jacome - Space Communism and Chickens and Eggs.
Even if a couple of birds laid some GDP changing eggs, no one besides you, of course, even remembers the name of a single successful board game made in Finland. With the grace of a stone age neanderthal clashing with a glass wall, success in the game industry is still measured mostly based on revenue. This community thing is serious business and it's about time we go back full circle. The rapid and sustained success of Finland as a Gaming Powerhouse, is built on top of a strong sense of community and sharing and unless it looks after it's base community it will face stagnation or worse, monetization? Before we reach any kind of flavour of fully automated space communism there's some work in between. Let me tell you our idea...
Petri Leinonen - Beating That Strange Osmosis
Tabletop RPGs are something we all know by heart. Or don’t. The rulebooks span hundreds of pages and can get very technical. How can we help players learn a new system and make them conscious of the rules they are using. Petri Leinonen takes a look at some methods games themselves use and what he has found to be useful as a GM trying to bring new players to understand a new system.