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Tiny Echo is a very small, maybe 1-3 hour long game (depending how much time you spend ogling at the amazing art). It's made by the studio Might and Delight, which has also developed the Shelter games. Their own website says:   "We are a small video game studio that hopes to bring artistic and carefully crafted interactive experiences to the market. We always try to value the integrity of our ideas and are constantly trying to reinvent both the genres we work with as well as our graphical expression." You are Emi, a message courier in a world of spirit-like creatures. It's like a village of tiny spirits living in the miniature world of their own. You point and click your way through the breathtaking scenery to deliver letters to the inhabitants. All the spirits have some special quirks and you need to do small puzzles to get to them or to get their attention. Sometimes you help them with things, or just sit down to drink tea in their company.   What m...

I don't have a problem with letting go of my old stuff, as unnecessary poetic as that sounds. At some point years ago I started deleting my old Facebook posts. I haven't posted that much at any point, but these days even less. I feel like I get overloaded by social media so easily that most of the time I try using it it just tires me really quickly. I like following more than creating my own posts. I enjoy the base idea on things like Snapchat and Instagram stories. More possibilities for low-key messages that get deleted after some time. Not everything gets so archived and has to be perfectly and thoroughly planned. Related to that I don't really keep any old files, or archive my artwork. Oldest are probably from 5 years ago and will probably go to a bin pretty soon. If my computer broke completely I would only really miss ongoing projects that were unfinished. And to be clear I don't see anything wrong with keeping archives of old things, but I just don't feel l...

Aino Kauranen I've been on the fine art path since I went to Savonlinna Secondary Upper School of Arts & Music. That was followed by SAMK Kankaanpää School of Fine Arts which I graduated from in 2016. Before and during all that I've been doodling digitally with a pen tablet since I was maybe 12 and with more purpose for the last 5-ish years. I do still love traditional painting and always will. But since graduating I've realized that the time in a studio gets very lonely and most of the work is spending time with your own thoughts. Which is also a good thing, but for me it's too much. I still aim to make a living with my art, but fine art as a side project. I've always been a video game fan especially for the visual side of them. The backgrounds and overall lighting of game environments intrigue me. How the littlest changes in light affect the overall mood and experience. This spring I attended a 3-month long game making crash course Pelifarmi and that...