Weekly News 47

Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter

In this report we will combine week 47/2020 from the Finnish Game Industry and will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out the previous post here.

News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.

Best Regards,
Neogames Finland

 Events:

• 22nd November: GDWC 2019 Awards Event on TWITCH
• 23rd November Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Publishing Games in China” (online)
• 24th November Games Capital Summit at NG20+ 
  •  The Deadline is 10th November Apply now!
• 25th November Joakim Achrén is hosting a webinar called “Early-Stage Success in Mobile Gaming,” where he talks to Skunkworks Games Co-Founder and CEO James Cramer
• 26th November Online Meetup with Unity
• 7th December Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Exergaming” (online)
• 9th December South Korean market Pitching event for Finnish Game Developers
  • If you are interested to pitch, please fill the form and upload your pitch deck on the November 20th at the latest.
• 9th December Character Workshop by Bambinomonkey
• 25th January  Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again” (online)
• 15th February Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Building Sustainable Gaming Cultures” (online)
• 29th March Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Fostering Playful Experiences with Wearables” (online)
• March 2021(Date tbc) British Academy Games Awards
  • Applications already open
  • Thursday 19 November 2020 – Entries close
  • Tuesday 2 March 2021 – Nominations announced
  • March 2021 (Date tbc) – British Academy Games Awards
• 19th April Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Next Generation of Interactive Streaming” (online)
• 3rd May Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Art of Learning by Doing – The Great Game Jam Panel” (online)
• 19th-23rd of July GDC 2021

See also The Game Industry Events calendar

EGDF in co-operation with Slovak Game Developers Association has build gameconfguide.com for complete list of games industry events and conferences and their status.

 Announcements:

• Jose Saarniniemi raises to new CEO of Small Giant, while former CEO Timo Soininen becomes the chairman of the board. (article only in Finnish)
• Apple will cut App Store commissions by half to 15% for small app makers
• New game industry doctorate of this week; Heikki Tyni from Tampere Game Research Lab successfully defended his dissertation: Games Crowdfunding as a Form of Platformised Cultural Production.