Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 07/2023 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:
- 22.2. Game Music concert in Jyväskylä
- 10th March Game Audio Awards. Deadline for submissions is February 5th.
- 20th-21st March Game Connection America. Neogames has negotiated an offer with Super Early Bird prolongation to its members to Game Connection America during GDC week in March. EXHIBITOR PACKAGE registration before 6.2.2023
- 23th March Greg Pellechi: Narrative Design & Production Workshop 1 / online
- 20th-24th March Game Developer Conference / San Francisco
- 18 – 21 April 2023 GamiFIN Conference. The call for papers is now open! Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2022
- 26-28 April Games Job Fair Online & Onsite in Helsinki
- 8th June Games First Helsinki. Click this link
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
- Empires Not Vampires raises $1M for a new blockchain game
- Finnish Tower Pop has raised $2.1 million in funding for its Web3 battle royale and tower defense game Omega Royale.
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- Is your studio hiring and/or looking for good visibility among #gamedev talent this spring? Games Job Fair April 26-28 2023 is the Online & Onsite in Helsinki games industry event for you!
- 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
- Digidemo program application period started 15.2. and deadline for applications is 11.4. at 4pm. English digidemo info website to be updated later
- Creative Europe: support programme for Europe’s cultural and creative sectors 2021-2027. Deadline for applications is on 1st March.
New releases 
- Atom Brain Games/Antti Laakso released Dreams in the Witch House on Steam and GOG in cooperation with Bonus Stage Publishing
- Stuffo the Puzzle Bot (by Hapatus / Antti Tiihonen) is released on Steam
Other News
- Supercell related:
- Nordic Game (conference) offers opportunities for interns
- Solip’s Comic new episode:”End of dirty jokes”
- Kouvola is looking for artists (all kinds, designers and coders included) for a permanently installed playable public art piece. Think about projections, sensors, cameras, multi-channel sounds, sculptures or whatever as elements of a game. https://www.poikilo.fi/pelitaidekilpailun-ohjeet-ja…/ Unfortunately the announcement is only in Finnish, but if you need help with the translation or other things, you can ask Jaakko Kemppainen