OASIS Events & Talks (all)

Celebrating Fool's Day a bit after Fool's Day, we have prepared a joke game day for you!

Invite friends, engage in jolly cooperation and enjoy the best pop culture jokes games have to offer!

Joke Day game will provide the following games available:
Enter the Gungeon
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Hatoful Boyfriend
Jazz Jackrabbit 2

Additional program might be introduced.

The event is running from 12:00 - 17:00 on Wednesday. 3rd of April. During the event OASIS is also open for normal use, except that the computers are dedicated for playing the selected games.

The event is free of charge and open for everyone. Welcome!

Playing Emotions: How to Bring Indie Games to the Classroom

There are many ways to incorporate video games into the classroom. However, different theoretical positions influence the selection of games and, most importantly, the modes of use. In this talk, Dr. Jorge Oceja will delve into the sociocultural methodologies, advocated by scholars like James Paul Gee, for weaving games into pedagogy. The talk illustrates this approach through Playing Emotions, an educational tool implemented in several Spanish schools over the years. Playing Emotions aims to assist secondary education teachers integrating video games into their teaching by providing activities that enhance their students' socio-emotional competencies through independent games. Dr. Oceja will explore some of these activities and discuss other potential games and pedagogical strategies for implementation. 

Bio

Dr. Jorge Oceja has worked as an elementary and secondary teacher for many years in different countries. He holds a degree in Educational Psychology, a master's degree in Educational Technology (Fulbright Scholarship at California State University), and a Ph.D. in Education Sciences. He currently works at the University of Cantabria in Santander and collaborates with the Botín Foundation (the biggest private foundation in Spain) on projects related to the educational possibilities of video games.

Academic Gamers sets a stage for an event focusing on game music. Here we listen to the songs of our games and share the special experiences we had of them. Come by and share your stories and wishes as the event happens (just like in the event picture). Here are, some motivating questions that may, but need not help you to dig your game music memories: Why is this song in this game so special? What special experiences have you had of it? How has it affected you in the intertwining of living and gaming? What kind of layers has the song gotten after the playing of the game itself has concluded? What differs game music from other types of music for you? The stories of The Game Music experience ought to be shared in English, but the main language of the event is music, the language of the universe, or somesuch...
The event is free of charge and open for everyone! Welcome!

In this game industry panel we will get to discuss with leaders and founders of local game companies. Our panelists include:

Tero Alatalo, CEO at 10tons
Marjaana Auranen, Miniboss at Red Stage Entertainment
Pekka Nordlund, Co-founder and Game Designer at Kalma Games
Tomi Toikka, Founder, CEO, Creative Director at Makea Games

The panel is part of the Game Project course, but is open for anyone to participate. Welcome!

Games Art Center: Play interesting/artistic games and share your experiences with others.

Tampere Literary Evenings (TALES) is a series of talks and discussions organized by a group of literature PhD students at Tampere University. During each event, two guest speakers will introduce the session’s topic with a short speech, followed by a general discussion. Each event has a different theme; all of them are held in English. 

Our guest speakers’ introductions can include (but are not limited to) short presentations, readings, performances, or even a bold opening argument. In the following discussion, we hope to engage with these speeches in an informal yet thoughtful manner. The audience is welcome to join in, or simply listen to our speakers’ inputs! Tampere Literary Evenings is organised in collaboration with Tampere University’s Research Center for Languages, PLURAL.  

A presentation on Virtue Ethics within Effective Altruism followed by discussion on the topic.

Join us for talks, snacks, fizzy drinks, games and prizes to win! Lets celebrate the 10th anniversary of OASIS together on Tuesday the 16th of April 2024, from 13-16 at OASIS, Pinni B building, Tampere university city center campus.

With "Rainbows, Unicorns and Hoverboards" we return to the making of the OASIS space at the University of Tampere! 🌈🦄

Among many others we will hear from Annakaisa Kultima, the main leading figure behind the creation of the Oasis space and Markus Salonen representing TREY and the perspective of the Tampere student union on OASIS. 💜

The event is free of charge and open to everyone.

Tapahtuma on uusien jäsenten ilta, jossa järjestön hallitus esittäytyy ja jäsenet voivat tutustua toisiinsa rennosti.

Indie Porn Games:  Contents, Ecosystems, Business Models

In his talk, Prof. Petri Lankoski delves into indie porn games, their contents, development ecosystems and business models as well as how those are connected. The primary funding model of porn games, the Patreon type crowdfunding, which often results in content leaning towards heteronormativity, potentially marginalizing non-binary perspectives. Throughout the funding phase, backers gain access to game development progress, although the primary allure lies in community involvement and influencing the project. The completed or near-completed games are subsequently distributed on other platforms like Steam. These games encompass a diverse array of sexual behaviors, often drawing from tropes found in pornography. Visual novels and adventure games are among the most prevalent formats.

Petri Lankoski, D.Arts, is an Associate Professor of Game Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. His research centers on game design, with a particular emphasis on the interplay between game design and player experience/emotions, games as fiction, and the relationship between game content and game mechanics.

The Games As Art Center is holding monthly talks from experienced game creators and developers, sharing their insight and ideas about making artistic games. This month, Chris Aylott, game designer, joins us for an interesting afternoon!

Video Games, Environmental Awareness and Climate Change

Xenia Zeiler

Environment, sustainability and climate change related themes in and around games increasingly abound. Among them, some new Asia produced games take distinct approaches to facilitate and support environment appreciation and awareness. By discussing two exemplary games and their gamevironments – specifically, interviews with and statements from game developers, debates and reviews from players and comments on gameplay videos – this talk explores how nature environment related themes are taken up in these games and how this is entertained and received, by players and beyond.

Xenia Zeiler is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection of digital media, culture, and society, specifically as related to India and global Indian communities. Her focus within this wider field of digital culture is video games and gaming research, in India and beyond. Closely related to and supporting this are her other major research areas: digital religion, popular culture, cultural heritage and mediatization. 

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Come join the scheming and negotiations as players gather to participate in various social deduction games, such as Werewolf/Mafia, Resistance and Secret Hitler. These fun and intense games are easy to learn and you probably have already played some of them.

Players are randomly assigned roles of different alignments and special powers. The aim is to discover who are with you and who are against you - and how you could convince the others of the truths or lies you want them to follow. Meanwhile there's voting, eliminating, special actions and quests to figure out!

- The session begins with the introduction of the hosts, players and games available, so participation from the beginning is recommended, but it's also possible to join later and leave after any match.

- Depending on the game and number of players a match can last between 10-75 minutes.

- Several games can be run simultaneously. There's going to be at least one game in English all the time, but it's possible to split into an English and a Finnish game.

The event is free of charge and open for everyone! Welcome!

The Global Perspectives Conference is a student-led academic conference that embraces global agendas in a multidisciplinary fashion. As a presenter, it is a great opportunity to get experience sharing and discussing your research in a safe environment. We encourage students to present their thesis topics at the conference with the aim of sharing knowledge and breaking boundaries between disciplines. The conference acts as a space of inspiration between students who have or will in the future write a research focused thesis.