Field notes, frameworks, and real-world lessons from mentoring animators and game designers across the globe.
Teaching game development isn’t about mastering tools — it’s about understanding process. In this post, I share how I teach students at Game City Kajaani to think like real developers, build fast prototypes, and blend art with code to bring their ideas to life.
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November 19, 2025 • 5 min read
Today I taught a 1-hour, theory-only lecture on Mastering Materials in Game Development, helping students understand how surfaces, light, and performance work together in modern engines. If you’d like this training for your class, community, or team, this post explains what we covered and how to bring the lecture to you.
Read article →November 17, 2025 • 3 min read
Learn how to combine Unreal Engine 5.6, Git, and CI/CD into a clean, studio-style workflow using the teaching project UEGitWorkshop. In this short recap, I walk through how we set up Git LFS, automated builds, enforced Conventional Commits, and used GitHub Actions to keep an Unreal project stable and production-ready—skills I now teach through Toucan Studios (toucan.ee) for studios, schools, and indie teams.
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