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This week, we shine a spotlight on diversity within the Finnish Game Industry. The Better Games initiative unites Finnish game studios in the pursuit of equality. Additionally, Nitro Games is actively supporting and educating about neurodiversity in the industry. Discover the latest Finnish games showcased at the Steam Next Fest. Stay informed by subscribing to Neogames’ weekly newsletter for all the latest updates.
💎Highlights
- Seven Finnish Game presented in Steam Next Fest at June 10-17th
- Neogames has launched Weekly Newsletter on email!
📣Neogames News
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📰 Finnish Game Industry News
- Indie Devs: Get expert feedback & win media prizes at the PG Connects Helsinki Very Big Indie Pitch
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Are you into Game Research? Or want to setup Research partnership with Your Game or esport company? In Jyväskylä and in whole Finland is very active network for Game Research and opportunities for cooperation with game- and esport-companies. Game Research Network is an interdisciplinary network uniting researchers and students who are interested in game studies.Good to look also the Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies and in Esports in Central Finland Jamk University of Applied Sciences and University of Jyväskylä
- An article about strengthening engagement on your game; “highlighting Merge Mansion as a North star: the brand welcomed lore lovers, subreddit gamers, and celebrity sleuths to an IRL version of the mysterious Boulton family estate – and ultimately earned over 177m social impressions.”
- Issues recognizing game industry artists in “The Arts and Culture Barometer” report by Cupore
- Relevant also for Finnish Game Developers: App Store developers can start nominating their games for featuring later this year. Apple also unveils new discoverability options including deep links and notifications of store promotions
- Finnish Game Studies / Valtteri Kauraoja: Identifying Empowerment within Game Design
- Edugametion is looking for new course materials and educators! Right now we’re into anything more specific for programming, like Backend development, Shaders/Graphics/AI, Technical Art and so! You may also suggest a course to them!
- OMA-project is asking what creative services Finnish Game Developers buy or offer? Please help us by taking part in the survey. Read more (in Finnish)
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Performances and experiences
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Expert services
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Trainings
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Workshops
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- Nitro Games Plc is hosted a Neurodiversity workshop with Toisintekijät at our Kaisaniemi office on Tuesday, June 11th. In the workshop, were learned about neurodiversity in general, terminology, challenges and strengths of neuroatypical employees, and how to best support and facilitate them in the workplace.
- Metacore’s Teppo Soininen: “Anybody who has put a game into soft launch knows there’s still plenty of space for f*ck ups.”
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Pax Dei June 18th Early Access launch getting closer and the launch trailer for the game is just revealed! Most of the work for the trailer was done in-house and highlighting so much of what’s in the game.
- Supercell’s Smash Bros: How “the stars aligned” for Squad Busters. Game lead Eino Joas and marketing exec Rob Lowe talk us through why Supercell’s sixth title is a major moment for the studio and mobile gaming
- Remedy is celebrating 10k members on their Discord server
- Supercell’s Hay Day returns to China’s App Store after four year absence
- Makea Games’ Supermoves go Live with the Next Fest Season at Steam
- Nice article about Finnish game, Rauniot. Rauniot is described as “a combination of a Mad Maxian post-apocalyptic Finnish wasteland steeped in Cormac McCarthy-esque imagery that’s lovingly rendered with some of the best-prerendered graphics ever”
- Samsung shows off new barrier-free games for Samsung Smart TV. Finnish Return entertainment among of the game developers.
- Remedy unveils Alan Wake 2 Night Springs expansion and physical editions
- Fingersoft CEO Jaakko Kylmäoja: Building the world’s most downloaded racing games
- Jetro Lauha / Strobotnik has been working with new Unity assets to create 3D fonts, for every language smoothly. Interested? Sign up
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
- Suomi Game Hub article about Whispers in the Mos by Uncultured Games
- Seven Finnish Game presented in Steam Next Fest at June
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo new application time opens at 20th May.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
👉 Upcoming Events
- 30th May-4th July; Monetization Workshop series from Multiscription
- June 20, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Marketing & Network Effect (Panel)
Moderator: Teis Anker Mikkelsen
Panelists: Sissel Morell Dargis & Ömer Yakabagi - June 27, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Publisher Partnerships 101
Søren Lass & Markus Windelen - July 4, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Interactive Round Table
Teis Anker Mikkelsen & TBD
- June 20, Thursday @ 15:00-16:00 CET – Marketing & Network Effect (Panel)
- 13-19th June Unity Summer Game Jam / Virtual
- 17-19th June Sote-tekoäly hackathon (in Finnish), Hybrid event, with several physical locations
- 25-27th June Metaversenergy Hackathon / Pori. Register before 12th June
- 28-30th June Pride Game Jam Helsinki
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 1st-3rd October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024
- discount code: PlayFinland20
- Be a speaker at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this October? Submit your talk here
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
See also following calendars:
- The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
- Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
- Flemish Game association calendar
- Game Industry Biz
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundup here.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland