Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 49/2022 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:
- 9th December Xmas Oulu Gamedev Special
- 9th December IGDA Pori Xmas Party
- 12.12.2022 Peliosuuskunta Expa 10 years and Digi & Game Center 3 years event at Jyväskylä (invite only, ping Tuomas Roininen DM to ask one)
- 13th December IGDA Finland Helsinki meetup sponsored by Rovio
- 13th December IGDA Tampere December Meetup with Colossal Order
- 13th December IGDA Turku Xmas Party with BugByte / Game Awards by Hive
- 23-24th January Pocket Gamer Connects London
- use the code PlayFinland20 for 20% off tickets.
- 18 – 21 April 2023 GamiFIN Conference. The call for papers is now open! Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2022
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
- US embassy is funding games workshops with indigenous people at Utsjoki.
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Juhani Paaso is running a one man game company called Harha Studios in Turku Finland. Juhanis first game just reached one million players!
Open jobs & Recruitment:
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Juha Huhtakallio asks if there is any Unity or Unreal certified educator here or do members know someone? Looking to contact for some opportunities Juha can provide.
- Baltic Explorers is offering Game Dev Talentpool platform that is connecting game development talents from all over the world. The platform has been made part of the Baltic Explorers project and is free for everyone!
- 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.com. Additionally, here is an anonymous list of talents who joined our Games Job Fair event and are open to career opportunities. If you want to see someone’s full profile, please feel free to reach out with the Contact button, so that they reach out to the talent for their consent. In your email please specify the project and/or position you are hiring for. A job description would be ideal.
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
- Uratarinoita, erilaisista ihmisistä / mostly in Finnish, but few different career stories in English too
💸 Funding
- Creative Europe: support programme for Europe’s cultural and creative sectors 2021-2027. Deadline for applications is on 1st March.
📃Neogames reports released this year:
- Neogames has released Finnish Game Industry Policy recommendations. The three key steps the new government should take to support the local games industry:
– Success is built on talent– Success is built on the courage to take steps into unknown– Success is built on cooperation
- Neogames released best Practices for Young Start-ups to Rise Private Investments: A Case Study for the City of Helsinki
- See also flowchart related
- In case you have missed Neogames Asia (Updated Games Market Study – China, Japan and South Korean Market) report released on July.
Other News
- Solip’s Comic new episode; Lay -offs
- Game Design and Production Course by Arcada University of Applied Sciences is offering a new online course (in English) in Game Design and Production taught by Mirko Ahonen and I, Arash John Sammander. It is starting in January and is now open to enrollment for everyone.