Koneisto LAN-Party

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In Venture Garage (Betonimiehenkuja 3)

16th November - 18th November 2012

Doors open at 18:00 on friday and the event ends at 14:00 on sunday.

Registration for gamers who will bring their own computer here  54 normal PC seats, if full check below to become part of the organizers.

Information for attendees
At the same time, there will be Startup Sauna event on the other side of the containers. The door side end of the hall, limited by the cargo containers, is in our use. You are free to mingle with the people in the other event, however. Please stay on our side with your desktop PC.

IRC
The event's IRC channel is !koneisto in IRCnet.

The Kitchen
It is free to use the kitchen with the condition that you clean after you and put dirty dishes to the washing machine.

The coffee machine
The coffee machine in the hall is also free to use. Remember to put dirty cups to the dishwasher.

Kuvaus
English after Finnish description.

LAN-paardit on parhaat!

Koneisto LAN-party kerää kaikki Aalto-yliopiston tietokone- ja konsolipelaamisesta kiinnostuneet yhteen viikonlopuksi Venture Garageen, Otaniemeen.

Tapahtuma on ilmainen ja avoinna kaikille Aalto-yliopistossa opiskeleville ja työskenteleville. Tapahtuma on alkoholiton.

Ohjelmassa lanitusta, pelicompoja, demoscene-tapahtuma by DOT ry (Digitaalisen median ammattiainekerho), pelialan yritysesittelyjä ja pelikonsolinurkkaus. Lisää ohjelmasta alempana.

Tervetuloa mukaan!

Description
Koneisto LAN-party held in Venture Garage, Otaniemi. The event is free and open to all Aalto University students and personnel. The event is alcohol-free.

The event will include traditional LAN gaming, a demo-event by DOT ry (Digital Media Club), company presentations and a console corner. More info about the schedule below.

Welcome!

Trivia: Koneisto translates roughly to 'machinery' or 'a bunch of computers'

Map
Access to the courtyard only from the road, as shown in the map below. Above the entrance, there's a huge Startup Sauna blanket. Don't worry, you're in the right place, There's just another event at the same building same time. You should see "a bit" smaller Koneisto ads nearby to guide you in.



LAN Schedule
During the LAN-party, we'll have a demo event organized by DOT ry, more info about the demo event will be included here or can be found from DOT's own webpages.

Few companies are willing to give presentations on various aspects of game developing, job opportunities in the gaming industry and on their products during the LAN-party. After their presentations, they'll stick around for some time for you to ask some questions -- be it on games, the weather or vacancies in their company.

Game compos during the LAN-party will include League of Legends, DotA, In the Groove, Assault Cuve 2vs2 or sudden deatch mode and possibly some more. (CS anyone?) Prizes for the winners!

Friday 16th Nov
18:00 Doors open!

18:00 Game servers online

Remedy Entertainment Ltd. presentation
around 20:00 Remedy Entertainment Ltd. will give presentation on game developer's daily routine and their job opportunities.

Saturday 17th Nov
Compos

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Sunday 18th Nov
14:00 End of the event.

Game servers
Throughout the event, we'll dedicate few servers for most popular games. If you have suggestions that are not listed here and should definitely have a dedicated server, please use the feedback form found at the bottom of this page. Please bear in mind that Polygame doesn't own any licenses for games, so suggesting games which don't have free-of-charge dedicated server software is useless. The OSes of the game servers are Windows and Linux.

We'll these servers up and running as soon as the doors open, so you can minimize the time to get into the game by installing the games beforehand.

There's going to be a Mumble server providing voide-over-ip.

Sandbox games
Sandbox games hosting a single session throughout the event, we'll see through what came out of these on sat-sun night or around noon on sunday:


 * Tekkit
 * OpenTTD

First person shooters
First person shooter servers run map queues. The gameplay mode is probably the most common one for that specific game.

The password for all servers is koneisto


 * Unreal Tournament
 * Unreal Tournament 2004
 * Unreal Tournament 3
 * Battlefield 1942
 * Battlefield 2
 * Brutal Doom

The LAN area
Innovative schematical map of the LAN premises. Blue is walls, white tables.

You can find the organizers from the admin desk, if you have problems or questions.



Showers and sleeping
Unfortunately the organizers cannot offer showering facilities. You'll have go somewhere else for a shower. Also, you'll have to do the sleeping also by yourself :) Of course you can try sleep on your mouse pad.

Food
There's going to be a microwave oven for general use. Cooling for your Jolts, ESs and Monsters you'll have to figure out yourself.

Willing to work at the event?
If you'd like to participate in making the event happen as an organizer, check Koneisto organizers page. If you didn't fit to the normal attending quota, there's possibility to bring your comp by applying as work force. The organizers have PC seats reserved for them and they get the official Polygame CREW T-shirt!

Questions, feedback?
During the LAN-party, you'll always find organizers from the admin desk. They are there to help you.

For questions that you couldn't find answers from this page, please email the main organizer joonapekko.kakko at aalto.fi

For feedback fill this form.