The Boomlagoon Studio!

We've been building our new premises for three days now and it's already awesome. We've got a Lagoon theme going on here, still need to add the Boom somehow. Also missing the poker table and some shelves, but they're soon to arrive.

Here we are all excited!

Check out Building The Office video as well!

Most of the furniture is from Ikea but there's definitely no problem there! Ikea's huge catalog made it easy to customize our office exactly the way wanted.

At this very moment Antti is at Ikea buying more carpets and a coat hanger. It sucks to keep jackets hanging on the doors.

We have two audio systems in case we want to ... listen two songs overlapping?

Oh I can't express how inspiring this office is!

This corner is where the actual magic happens!

I caught Antti doing what he's been doing for a month already. Sending emails.

My card climbed to a tree.

Wind of change

Let me introduce myself. My name is Tuomas Erikoinen.

For my whole adult life I've been pretty boring. After the army I moved close to Helsinki to work in the game industry. Ever since that I've been a victim of routines. I've been using most of my time on the computer (at work and home) and I've never really done anything to break this mental method I've allowed myself to get swallowed in. The same goes for work; day by day I've advanced on my career by slowly learning from the routines I had at work.

Thankfully there's a slight wind of change at hand. I've now found my very own company with Antti Stén. Inspired of it I've also decided to make some changes in my personal life. I'm getting rid of my computer and both TVs at home and reorganizing everything - just to make myself adapt to a different situation. Maybe even a different life. Earlier my normal day would consist of coming home from work, eating and browsing the internet for the rest of the evening. From now on I guess I'll go outdoors, play the piano or join a dancing lesson. Who knows, but I'm thrilled!

 

I'm sure this will be very helpful for my mindset work-wise as well since from now on I need to come up with new ideas all the time. It'd be kind of boring if I just sat inside doing nothing.

 

This might not be the most formal introduction ever, but I feel that sharing personal information can be far more interesting than talking yet again about my history with Angry Birds. I have plenty of time to discuss that too.

Proudly presenting Boomlagoon!

The day has finally come! Let me present to you: Boomlagoon - the company I and Antti Stén recently founded. Check out the great article on VentureBeat!

I put together a little promotional piece to get my thoughts flowing and I figured why not show it here as well!

Alright, this will do for the very brief company introduction. If you want stay in the loop, be sure to follow us on Twitter. All comments and feedback are very welcome!

I'll introduce myself a bit better in the upcoming blog post. After that I'll carry on sharing my point of view for being an entrepreneur in the game industry. 

The Big Setup

I've been an entrepreneur for a whole week now and it feels good!

We're about to announce our company officially during this week. I'm excited to hear any honest feedback when it happens!

There's already been quite a lot of challenges coming as a regular employee to a full day master of myself. There's so many open questions still that it can be quite hard to focus on the important sometimes - or even just one subject at a time. The good thing is that I already feel like I'm getting better at it.

My biggest worry at the moment is that I might not know enough about taking the first steps of building a company. So far things have been running smooth but any advices are welcome.

Well, this is the first step. I'm eager to see where this will take us!