Currently reading: The Praised, The Loved, The Deplored, The Forgotten: A View into the Wide History of Finnish Games by Kultima, Annakaisa; Peltokangas, Jouni 📚
Finnish games introduced briefly, but also contains a handful of interesting interviews. 🎮
If you think about what your average citizen of today should know about the demoscene, the least would be the fact that such a long line of digital culture exists. Even if it’s quite hidden from the mainstream, it has given rise to a huge amount of talent. Another is the existence of such media art and a community, of which not much is known, but which has been very active and played a significant part for those involved. Rather than thinking of whatever useful business skills were acquired, I would like the latter point to be the takeaway from all this.
–lecturer Markku Reunanen 💬