Games Now! Podcast

On our second episode of GN! Looking Back we talk with Tatu Laine, game designer at Futureplay Games. Tatu was lecturing in 2018 at Aalto University about the design of Idle Games. We listen a snippet of his 2018 lecture and proceed with reflecting what has happened between 2018 and 2022. What is Tatu thinking about idle games genre now? How are idle games related to merge games? How a theme of a game is tested out? Which one wins, gardening or farming? Download our latest episode on Games Now Looking Back series to find out!

Show Notes

On our second episode of GN! Looking Back we talk with Tatu Laine, game designer at Futureplay Games. Tatu was lecturing in 2018 at Aalto University about the design of Idle Games. We listen a snippet of his 2018 lecture and proceed with reflecting what has happened between 2018 and 2022. What is Tatu thinking about idle games genre now? How are idle games related to merge games? How a theme of a game is tested out? Which one wins, gardening or farming? Download our latest episode on Games Now Looking Back series to find out!

Check Tatu's original lecture "Idle Games Deep Dive" at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoTE0nD_qy8

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What is Games Now! Podcast?

Games Now! is an open lecture series on game industry trends run by Aalto University. Since 2013, the lecture series has been inviting game industry experts from all over the world to share their insights on what is current in games right now. In the second season of the "Games Now!" Podcast, we introduce our "Further Questions" series. In these episodes, we revisit the lectures of the academic year, diving deeper into topics with questions submitted by our students.