Egoism is hardly avoidable when creating a personal website. I hope you enjoy your stay, whatever it is that you are looking for.

The corporate language is Finglish and the optimal browser is Mozilla. Welcome to explore.

Markus Montola

Hello! The Internet Almighty knows me better than I do myself, but basically I am a game researcher currently working on my dissertation on role-playing and pervasive games, funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

I have earlier worked at Nokia Research Center and University of Tampere "Game Research Lab serves as the environment and platform for the work related to games and also to interactive media entertainment in general".Gamelab. Among other things, I have worked with pervasive games in Integrated Project on Pervasive GamingIPerG project, which ran from October 2004 to February 2008.

If you want to have a chat, here's how to reach me:

Cellphone: +358 44 544 2445 Changed in May 2009!
Work and studies: firstname.lastname@uta.fi
Leisure: firstname.lastname@iki.fi

Please look around for stuff like a weblog, a research plan, a reading diary, a list of publications et cetera.

Internet:
Outdated, yet under construction.