The following sections are reserved for answering the following questions: How can you tackle the topic in a more manageable way? How and what? What about future projects? What is the point?  The Future of “The Playful Kraken”  Based on the discussions and different avenues of approach, the smartest choice would be to break the…

This blog begins to answer the question: What were the results of this preliminary research, aka the plunge into the Game Industry Education?  Realizations and Conclusions Based on the discussions, seminar, mind mapping, and resource hunting it became noticeably clear that there is much uncertainty and incoherency in the terminology, and the whole Game Industry…

Through my connections, I facilitated excellent discussions with interesting people from geographically close by, as well as from the other side of the world. We discussed the situation of the whole Game Industry with Professor Umer Noor from Humber UAS, and while their curriculum has a slightly different approach to game development education, focusing on…

I would like to thank all of my colleagues, Kalle Raijonkari, Ilari Miikkulainen, Teemu Pölkki, Juha-Tapio Teno, Jere Lamberg, Jarkko Immonen, Jani Seppälä, and Krista Anttila, for the fruitful discussion on the Game Industry structure and education. In the discussions with my colleagues, the massive amount of work needed for creating a framework for understanding…

In my previous articles I discussed the difficulties of starting “The Playful Kraken” and the process of creating the questions. Now I continue with the topic of participation in the “Game Education in Finland” seminar. As a result of my effort to summarize the Game Industry, and investigate the Finnish Game Industry education, I was…

I have gathered many Game Industry areas and sectors that I have been involved with during my career, using a mind map tool (see Game Industry Structure). As (video) Game Industry is the one involved in the development, marketing, and monetization of (video) games, the mind map also reflects the difficulty of defining the whole…

The idea of “The Playful Kraken” has been in my mind for several years. It has slowly grown into far too many related topics and questions. For that reason, I would like to write about the difficulty of getting a job in game development companies, and the incompatibilities of the current game education and the…