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Jouni Utriainen

@planetjone.bsky.social

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It's a-me, Jounio! (Ex-Supercell, etc.) I like games & saving the world - and squeezing ‘em together. Working on a game, The Undeclaration of Human Rights. Good faith arguments only. I write about #impactgames on my site: https://planetjone.com

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Mar 5

The Undeclaration of Human Rights is progressing well, and also my game is. This infographic is hot off the press.

Reading instructions: Click it, shout "enhance!" and squint.

#planetjone #impactgame #gamedev #humanrights #un #humanrights #madewithunity #ios #android #whydidyoureadthesehashtags

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · 9d

In addition to The Undeclaration of Human Rights, I’m solo-developing QUANTUM SWEEPER.

Space + Minesweeper + RPG + Retro.

It’s now the fifth month of a two-month project.

#gamedev #solodev #indiedev #quantumsweeper #minesweeper

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Timo R. Stewart @timostewart.bsky.social · 9d

Olen Törmälehdon kanssa samaa mieltä, kristillisestä sionismista puhutaan aivan liian vähän.

Tarpeellista yhteiskunnallista keskustelua hankaloittaa, että politiikassa vaikuttavat kristilliset sionistit mieluummin piilottelevat uskomuksiaan kuin puhuvat niistä avoimesti.
www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

Kolumni | Kristillinen sionismi kahlitsee Suomen ulkopolitiikkaa Lähi-idässä

Kristillisessä sionismissa olennaista on Israelia koskeva uskonnollinen ajattelu. Sitä tunnetaan ja siitä puhutaan liian vähän.

www.hs.fi

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · 21d

Kas, sehän on ilmastoradikaali Petteri Orpo spinnaamassa hallitustaan ilmastonmuutoksen sankareiksi.

Persujen kanssa kuhertelu onkin todistetusti yksi parhaista tavoista edistää kunnianhimoista ilmastopolitiikkaa.

#ilmastonmuutos #spinnaus #ilmasto-orpo #kokoomus

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo on Winning the Debate on Climate Change (Gift Article)

We asked heads of state how they’re steering their countries as America retreats.

www.nytimes.com

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Aug 31

Long solid thread about the last chance to save democracy in the US.

Dan Nexon @dhnexon.bsky.social · Aug 30

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Aug 30

Yeah - it’s especially scary as in theory fixing a thing like that may take a minute, or an infinite amount of time.

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Aug 30

Best way to not be able to fall asleep at night is to have a totally unknown, irrational, randomly appearing state corrupting bug in your game’s saving system.

Whacha gonna do, fix it TOMORROW?

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev #savegame

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Aug 19

An Endless Todo List was already following me and now this. 😓

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · Aug 14

The Despot's Guide to Job Statistics: how Trump's handpicked Nazi warship-admiring, January 6th-attending hack economist was chosen on the sole basis of loyalty and ideology as he seeks to undermine objective economic data, all for his Dear Leader: www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-despot...

The Despot's Guide to Job Statistics

Dictators routinely lie about economic growth. Trump just took a page from their playbook in appointing an unqualified, Nazi-admiring, January 6th hack to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

www.forkingpaths.co

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Jenni Utriainen @viihdevintiot.bsky.social · Aug 8

Mainoskuvasta tuli ehkä kreisihkö, mutta lupaan, että itse peleissä on seesteisempi tunnelma. 😅

Koulujen alkamisen kunniaksi molemmat meidän oppimispelit ovat tämän viikonlopun ajan hyvässä alessa elikkäs puoleen hintaan.

Lisää infoa täältä:

www.viihdevintiot.com/pelit

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anima interactive @anima-interactive.com · Jul 24

Looking for a team to join our investigative journalism game jam? 👁️ 🔍

Join our Discord server and meet hundreds of devs and potential collaborators!

discord.gg/PvgWeNWb

Apply to join the jam here: shorturl.at/bQ7Le

#indiegamedev #gamejam #impactgames

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hyvä tietää.

Oras Tynkkynen @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi · Jul 28

Hallitus julkaisi ilmastovuosikertomuksen juhannuksen jälkeisellä viikolla.

Ajankohdan takia se saattoi mennä monelta ohi.

Mitä julkaisu kertoo Suomen päästökehityksestä?

Entä ilmastopolitiikan tilasta - ja siitä, onko Suomi saavuttamassa päästötavoitteensa?

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Ympäristöministeriö @ym.fi · Jun 27

Millainen oli Suomen ilmastovuosi 2024?

Energiantuotannon päästöt vähenivät reilusti.
Ilmastotavoitteiden saavuttamiseksi lisätoimia tarvitaan taakanjakosektorilla ja erityisesti maankäyttösektorilla, jonka päästöt kasvoivat edellisvuodesta.

Lue ilmastovuosikertomus:
ym.fi/-/ilmastovuo...

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jul 25

Their official site here:

u24.gov.ua

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine

UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

u24.gov.ua

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jul 25

Donating for justice & humanity now is easy - just one repost away. (Naturally going to UNITED24 site and directly donating yourself is even better.)

#StandWithUkraine #United24 #SupportUkraine #SlavaUkraini

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jul 25

In an effort to boost UNITED24's visibility, I'm now personally going to donate 1 euro for each each reposting of this thread. (Cap at 3000e for now.)

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jul 25

There's only one moral choice: to keep supporting Ukraine, as long as it takes. Russia is wrong. Ukraine is right.

One of the easiest and best ways to support is to donate to UNITED24 (@u24.gov.ua). It's the official fundraising platform. I've been donating since it launched, and you should too.

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are already good friends with the bot. Very nice and chill game!

I hope this will become an official high-speed chase teaching tool in the Finnish police academy.

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 27

Congratulations on the release! I don't have friends, but I'll try it by myself. ;)

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wow, looks like somebody hooked up a LLM to a bot to generate contextually correct comments. But hey, live and let live. At least it's friendly.

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

#blip #impactgame #planetjone #crowdsorsa #environment #gamesforgood #impaktipelit #pelikasvatus #impaktipeli #biodiversity #civictech #gamification #invasiveplants #luontopeli #kansalaisvaikuttaminen #suomipelit #kesätöitä

Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

Learn more at their site:
www.crowdsorsa.com

Crowdsorsa – Citizens at your service

www.crowdsorsa.com

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is civic tech, gamification, and collective effort at work. Cleaner cities, richer biodiversity, and pocket money for folks who want to help.

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

Crowdsorsa has collaborated with many municipalities and recruited residents, for example to uproot lupine and Himalayan balsam, rewarding about €12,000 in Espoo alone, blending fun competition with tangible ecological impact.

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

Missions are time‑limited and location‑specific. Players compete, can earn real money, and the collective action helps with infrastructure maintenance, accessibility or biodiversity work - maybe even faster and cheaper than traditional approaches.

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Jouni Utriainen @planetjone.bsky.social · Jun 19

IMPACT GAME BLIP #6

Crowdsorsa is a mobile game/app from Finland. It pays players to do microtasks, like photographing benches, manhole covers, or eradicating invasive plants, to improve local environments.

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