To a slight disappointment of mine, this years Assembly was a bit of let-down. There were only a few very interesting seminars, no jaw-dropping demos, the oldskool area was space-free and noisy. Not to mention I didn’t manage to produce anything to put on stage myself. I will seriously consider attendind Assembly ’08.
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Assembly Attendance, 4th Day
Scraping up and packing in is what is in store for the last day of Assembly. You have a few more compos, such as currently running Guitar Hero finals, but otherwise is just waiting for the 2nd prize ceremony and closing ceremony.
Sleeping high in the grand stand in the Hartwall Areena has always been an integral part of Assembly for me. This time the last night was the best, as usual. The white noise of hundreds of PC’s down below is effectively silence when you apply ear plugs. Nobody knows where you are, so even if you had a hit killer after you, you probably would be safe.
Assembly Attendance, 3rd Day
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.
Assembly Attendance, 2nd Day
So far Assembly hasn’t actually cajoled me with a great show. The practical side of things has been somewhat lacking, but I’ll expect great compos to compensate. I took this day off to trample around Helsinki, I took one of my notorious and unrational nostalgy trips to the Viikki campus area where I spent my last non-student/master’s degree Summer. I have to admit that the Tourist-tickets Helsinki City Transportation authoritys offer are well worth their salt (6euros for an adult for 24 hours).
I wonder if there are any Kimmo’s Blog readers here as well…
Attending Assembly
I’m currently taking part in Assembly ’07, which means some pictures and general reportage will be posted in the next four days.