Here’s a fun little game about Google maps and finding your way to places in an old-fashioned Labyrinth-game way. Google maps has been widely used as a base for Augmented reality apps or maps for different cultural events before (as in Kadonnut kaupunki), but this tutorial (/advertisement) was a fun way to play with it...

Within this week these two publications caught my eye: Google’s “Ingress” and Air France’s “Music in the sky” (above). Both work on mobile devices and play with the idea of augmented reality. Practically the first one gamifies one’s living environment, the other hides music into the sky and makes people look into the clouds. Ingress...

This year the edutainment games seem to have been a hot topic, once again. The old truth concerning edutainment games is sadly something like this: If edutainment games are made only from the “school-like learning” point of view, they easily become boring and will actually not improve learning at all. The best edutainment games are...

The Endless City-map won the whole Disainia Peliin -competition! Disainia peliin was about finding the best looking visual designs of new Finnish games. We were competing against 112 other awesome artworks and titles like Badland and Trine 2. We want to thank everybody who voted, special thanks go to Pirkka Harvala and Kim Haataja for creating this masterpiece. Kaleva’s...

Happy Halloween, everybody! Hope you have not carved all the pumpkins yet, since here is an awesome idea to bring some action to your Halloween party: play some old-fashioned Tetris… with a pumpkin! The instructions can be found here, at Hahabird’s blog! I tried to ask, but unfortunately it seems that there will not be...

Who wouldn’t have wanted to be mr. Bond for just a moment of their lives? It’s not always easy, though. Coke Zero gave some people the chance to try this and Unlock the 007 in them. Have to admit that I’m a bit jealous, it would have been fun…