This Assembly has matured enough to cast a kind of impression on it. The oldskool area where I’m located is crowded and situated in the grand stand, leaving us VIP’s among the commoners. It is also noisy as hell, which begins to eat you slowly. I’m also beginning to feel increasingly anachronistic in here (the average age is allegedly 17) and I’m also slightly annoyed that I haven’t managed to bring anything to the party myself. I am contemplating if this would be my final Assembly.

Today I’ve so far attended two interesting seminars from Finnish Game industry veterans, and there aren’t that many of those around. Jani Penttinen had been around the globe and is currently in China. Aki Raula is working at a new Finnish Game start-up Recoil games. He stunned me with confessing that he had played NetHack only twice in his life. And he works as a Game designer! There really ought to be a lawa against dangerous omissions like that in once gaming experience.

Energia (people behind Star Wreck: The Pirkinning) was present teasing us about Iron Sky. I bought a relevant baseball cab from Torssonen with the word ‘Raumsturmführer’ which I think sounds cool.

There are the most interesting compos (64k and Demo) still coming up, so I hope to see some ‘wow’ing there. Short film compo has managed to amuse me with silliness earlier. I wonder what movies will be the subject of pastiches this year.

Oh, and I almost landed on a picture taken by the token Finnish Geek, Petteri Järvinen.