The crowdfunding campaign for the Finnish Museum of Games was a huge success. There were more than 1,100 sponsors, and almost €86,000 were collected. A big thank-you to all who supported the project and helped financially! Massive thanks to all our supporters!
Support has been provided by Supercell, Housemarque, Colossal Order, Skrolli, Alasin Media Oy, Secret Exit, Next Games, Tikkurila Oyj, Remedy, High Score, Fragment Production, EXPA JKL, Seriously, Sofia Digital and Outer Rim alumni, Neogames Finland ry, Etelä-Satakunnan Puhelin Oy, Greener Grass, Another Castle, Tieto-Velju Oy, Moido Games, Famiko, Grand Cru, Traplight Games, Mindfield Games, RedLynx (a Ubisoft studio), 10tons, Tampereen Tullikamari, Frogmind Games, Peliosuuskunta Expa/IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub, Iceflake Studios, Särkänniemi, the Game Research Lab of the University of Tampere School of Information Sciences, and Owland Oy / RealGames.org.
In addition to the actual crowdfunders, the campaign was supported by numerous others, including Pelit magazine (http://www.pelit.fi), which has been the voice of Finnish gaming since 1992; game sites Dome.fi and V2.fi; the computer culture magazine Skrolli; and communications agency Visionist. The Open Tampere programme has supported the project preparations financially. Heikki Tyni assisted in planning of the crowdfunding campaign. We are grateful also to the designers of the games museum T-shirts: Hanna Jokinen (the Suomipelit shirt), Jani Nummela (the Delta shirt), and Minna Salomaa (the Wings shirt)!
