We recently went to Tampere City for a special occasion. To meet staff of the upcoming Finnish Museum of Games for talks and interviews about a certain game.
Yeah, that’s right, there’s going to be Museum of Games opening in Finland in 2017, and UnReal World is one of the titles selected to the exhibition. The visit included also an interview to be archived for the future, for the future researchers - and generations. So I guess we are officially preserved now :)
The Finnish Museum of Games tells the story of how digital gaming in Finland started, how it developed over the years and how it made it to where it is now. You better take a look at Suomen Pelimuseo / The Finnish Museum of Games website (brief english info also available) and go see the exhibition for yourself in 2017.
Here's rare exhibit of me and Erkka (co-designer) in urban environment -- which is actually not that uncommon, but just rarely documented. The Finnish Museum of Games will open in the Vapriikki Museum Centre at Tampere in January 2017.
Game on!
As a related thingie, just today InkTank blog takes a trip down gaming memory lane and posts their list of the 9 most important Finnish video games in history. I'm sure pretty much everyone will find few familiar titles there.