Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 2/2022from 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:
- 28-30 Jan 2022 Global Game Jam Now its the time to apply own site. In Person, Online-only, and Hybrid sites too are accepted this year, so there will be something for everyone!
- 27-29th April Games Job Fair
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar
Announcements:
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- Check out this job at SciPlay Finland – Senior Producer / Production Director and UI/2D Artist
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Kim Soares is looking for their new gamedev company (that still in a stealth mode) an experienced concept artist (environments and/or characters). Ping Kim in comments or dm if you are interested or know someone suitable!
- If you are looking for talented games industry professionals for short- or long-term hire – please check out the anonymous GameDevTalents board with screened and pre-interviewed talents ranging from mid to senior levels of experience and open to career opportunities. Feel free to reach out for details! And if you are Talent working in games industry or willing to join the Finnish games industry, feel free to apply https://gamedevtalents.comTake a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
New releases 
- Bonus Stage Publishing launched Warshmallows for PC and for Nintendo Switch.
- Guntech 2 just launched for Xbox! This is a 100% Finnish-made game, available in Finnish language (among many others).
Discussion- Tim Spaninks asks from Level Designers, what’s the process of planning environments? The video talks about using Bubble Diagrams to get an early sense of spacial relationships, content and flow in your level.
- Nicolae Berbece introduces ” Heyoo, I’m Nick and aside from having developed Move or Die, I make videos about game design over here I recently moved to Helsinki and I’m curious how the gamedev scene looks here and hopefully make some friends in the process
Other News- “Slated for release next spring, Skábma: Snowfall [by Red Stage Entertainment], is already being hailed by critics and designers as a notable step forward for self-representation in the video game arts. It will be the first major video game release to be designed and acted by a Sámi-led team, the first to be produced entirely in the endangered North Sámi language, and the first to be firmly rooted in Sámi folklore and tradition.”
- “Attracting industry outsiders, women and junior talent to and supporting them in getting employed in the games industry will be among the key topics to address during 2022” – Mika Tammenkoski, CEO, Metacore Games (article only in Finnish)
- Solip’s Comic‘s latest episode of “Game Expats Story” Have you ever considered working remotely abroad?
Many game expats in Finland have tried. - Article (in Finnish) about one of the most famous Finnish game composer, Ari Pulkkinen.
- New animal and weapon to Virtual Hunter– Wild Boar and .44 revolver! Update available right now!
- Lucas Zanotto is an Italian-born, multifaceted creative best known for cofounding the children’s app brand Yatatoy (FINNISH COMPANY). In the last year, he’s earned six figures selling NFT loops of his impossibly charming, geometric characters.
- For the celebration of the New Year, Hologram Monster just published a new furniture asset pack for your game making needs
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Erno Vanhala did a survey on last spring among Finnish free-to-play gamers and got quite exciting results (which were presented at Tethics 2021 conference – the article is provided as open access anytime soon) and now we are aiming at replicating the study with global audience. So if you play free-to-play games we would really appreciate your answers (if you answered the survey in spring, please answer also this one as it has additional questions).