Hold the Game Jam Event, Oulu 3D Sensor Game Jam 2018, at Oulu, Finland

ROHM has announced to hold "the Oulu 3D Sensor Game Jam 2018", which is a game jam event taking place in the City of Oulu, Finland from March 21 to 23, 2018. Think of it as a hackathon focused on making a working game prototype using 3D sensors such as accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, pressure sensor and so on. Participants will be creative, share experiences and express themselves using video games with sensors for multiple possibilities. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. There are a lot of excellent software engineers in the City of Oulu, where is one of the leading educational promoting cities in Finland. This city has the environment for developing human resources by industry-academia-government collaboration such as Business Oulu. In addition, it also has a system for supporting a lot of startups. This event is also highly valued from various fields as a high-level game development event with the cooperation of Fingersoft as main sponsor, Game Capital Oulu, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Business Oulu, MeKiwi and SQOOL as partners. ROHM and other partners encourage people with all kinds of backgrounds in not only Amusement but also Education, Training, Health Care and Mental Health Care market to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity. Event Overview Oulu 3D Sensor Game Jam 2018 Date: From March 21, Wednesday to March 23, Friday, 2018 Location: Fingersoft, Aleksanterinkatu 4-6, 90100 Oulu, Finland Sponsor: ROHM Semiconductor http://www.rohm.com/web/global/ Fingersoft https://fingersoft.net/ Partners: Game Capital Oulu http://www.oamk.fi/hankkeet/kotimaiset_kaynnissa/?hanke_id=1736 Oulu University of Applied Sciences http://www.oamk.fi/en BusinessOulu https://www.businessoulu.com/en/frontpage.html MeKiwi https://mekiwi.org/en/ SQOOL https://sqool.co.jp/ Use Device: ROHM / Kionix Sensor IoT Evaluation Kit https://github.com/RohmSemiconductor/Kionix-IoT-Evaluation-Kit http://www.kionix.com/iot-evaluation-and-development-kit About Finland Software Development Center ROHM, a leading semiconductor component manufacturer, together with Group Companies Kionix and LAPIS Semiconductor, offer a wide range of sensor products and solutions with low-power MCUs, algorithm and driver software. They optimize for a variety of design and application needs. Finland Software Development Center was opened on November, 2014 at the City of Oulu, Finland, in order to support designing and developing software and algorithm for the sensor solution business, which is one of the company's growth strategies, and in order to support customers there.

About ROHM Semiconductor ROHM Semiconductor is a global company of 352,010 million yen (3,23 billion US$) revenue per March 31th, 2017 with 21,308 employees. ROHM Semiconductor develops and manufactures a very large product range from the Ultra Low Power Microcontroller, Power Management, Standard ICs, SiC Diodes, MOSFETs and Modules, Power Transistors and Diodes, LEDs to passives components such as Resistors, Tantalum Capacitors and LED display units, thermal Printheads in state-of-the-art manufacturing plants in Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, China and Europe. LAPIS Semiconductor (former OKI Semiconductor), SiCrystal AG, Kionix are companies of ROHM Semiconductor Group. ROHM Semiconductor Europe has its head office near Dusseldorf serving the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa). For further information please contact www.rohm.com/eu