Avesoft
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Avesoft Finlandia Oy | ||
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Industry | ||
Founded | April 28, 1989[1] | |
Defunct | March 22, 1996 | |
Headquarters | Tampere, Finland | |
Products | Video games, computer programs |
Avesoft got its start in the fall of 1988 when Jyrki Kummola presented his idea about a game named Remember Archadica to Kimmo Kujansuu. Both had visions of a Finnish game company and together they established Avesoft Finlandia Ltd.[2] They funded the upkeep of the company by selling PD disks so that they could eventually concentrate on publishing games. The most well known of Avesoft games is Coloris, which was developed by Signum Victoriae group. It got rated well by, for example, Jukka Tapanimäki in MikroBitti magazine. The final game published by Avesoft was Metallic Nations, which came out in 1995.
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People
- Jyrki "Jyker" Kummola - Avesoft’s founder and owner Jyrki Kummola worked as a kind of a project manager in the company as well as dealing with advertising and other odd jobs. His real interest was brainstorming and coming up with new game ideas.
- Kimmo Kujansuu - Was part of founding Avesoft. Kimmo Kujansuu is often said to have been the “business advisor” of Avesoft.
- Jari Moisio - Jari Moisio worked as a handyman at Avesoft. Kummola and Kujansuu met Pertti Lehtinen through him.
- Karri Palovuori - Karri Palovuori, who at the time was studying at Tampereen Teknillinen Korkeakoulu, had ties to Avesoft from the beginning and he was part of quite a few game projects.
- Pertti Lehtinen - Tampereen Teknillinen Korkeakoulu’s Assistant Professor Pertti Lehtinen brainstormed and programmed Coloris.
Games
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External links
- ↑ YTJ.fi, "Avesoft Finlandia Oy". Retrieved 2015-07-08.
- ↑ Jukka Tapanimäki, MikroBitti (6-7/90), "Averitarin ristiretket, Avesoft - suomalainen pelitalo" (pages 24-25).
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