Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 41/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
In this report we will combine the week 41/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
- Oct. 14.-16 Games for Health Finland / Health Game Jam
- 15th Oct. Gyostage IIIII -luentokokonaisuus ”Pelimaailman lumovoiman kasvattajan, pelinkehittäjän ja ammattilaisen näkökulmasta” in Kuopio
- 17th and 18th October Autodesk organizes media & entertainment pop-up event in Helsinki
- 19th Oct. Digimediapäivä + virtual reality event / Helsinki
- 21st Oct. Mysteeripolku: Kuokkamummo
- October 26th- 28th Game Connection Europe / Paris
- Neogames has negotiated a very reasonably priced offer (DL: SEP.5th) to its members for Game Connection Europe in Paris. In the spirit of the Nordic co-operation Neogames shares this offer with other Nordic clusters, NGI and their members. More info:http://www.neogames.fi/
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- Neogames has negotiated a very reasonably priced offer (DL: SEP.5th) to its members for Game Connection Europe in Paris. In the spirit of the Nordic co-operation Neogames shares this offer with other Nordic clusters, NGI and their members. More info:http://www.neogames.fi/
- 14th of Nov. IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub is organizing “The Concept of Art in Games” Exhibition @ Jyväskylä City Library.
- 18th of Nov. XmasJKL 2016 Game Industry seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland – Early Birds are ON! Get your tickets FAST to great game dev seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland 18th of Nov 2016 with great line up of speakers and people from the Game Industry. Early Birds are ON!
- 23rd-26th Nov. ReCon Blockchain developers bootcamp in Helsinki
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
- Oct 11, 2017. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Dodreams is hiring for five jobs: Producer / QA / Outreach Manager / Developers / Artists. Join them in making #DriveAhead! a family of games.
- Supercell is looking for community manager
- Several open positions:
- 700+ game companies in the Nordics to get an overview of game development jobs available right now. Currently 440 job openings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway – browse through them at http://gameform.eu/
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Releases:
- 3RePlay Studios releases Pong Master 9000
- Pako – Car Chase Simulator in Steam Greenlight
- RiverDrive available for Windows phone
- Spareware is now out on Steam
- Spacepipe is out for iOS & Android
Announcements;
- Neogames Finland is updating the Finnish Game company lists, inform us if you are not in the list http://www.neogames.fi/en/industry-info/operators/
- Koukoi Games raises $1 million to work on licensed Hollywood IP games
- Boomlagoon opening their upcoming game Super Soldiers for BETA via Testflight!
Other News;
- Shadow Bug is free on the App Store.
- Washington post. There’s a video game where you can hurl ‘truth’ at Trump
- Join Game Founders for next Spring for 3 months of mentorship, partnership deals, networking events and a small investment to top it off! Show your games before the 15th of November for the chance to level up your studio!
- Mushroom Crusher Extreme has now been on Steam Early Access for about a week, still in great need for more feedback. If you haven’t played it yet, keys available.
- Matti Ahopelto an experienced Helsinki-based composer/sound designer here looking for work in the games industry!
- (only in Finnish) Psyon Games YLE -uutisissa (ajassa 12:57)
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them on the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out previous week’s list!