Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 13/2023 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:
- 18th – 21th April 2023 GamiFIN Conference.
- 26th – 28th April Games Job Fair Online & Onsite in Helsinki
- 23rd – 26th May Nordic Game Conference in Malmö and online
- 27th May IGDA Finland celebrates its 20th birthday
- 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
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!
Registration: https://apply.gamesjobfair.comEvent Details: https://gamesjobfair.com/
- Digi&Game Center in Jyväskylä organises a recruitment/intership event for Jamk University of Applied Sciences studets on March 30th.
- 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
New releases 
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Bonus Stage Publishing released Bullet Runner: The First Slaughter at Steam
Discussion
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Huy Luong opened discussion about integrating Map Builder feature in Video Games
Other News
- New Game Factory is a new Finnish Game Studio
- Neogames Finland ry. released their policy post this week:
- The success of the Finnish Game Industry is not a coincidence, but the result of long-term cooperation and development supported by an entire ecosystem. Thanks to everyone who participated in the effort. In the Finnish parliamentary elections held on Sunday, decision-makers will be elected, whose policies will also guide the future of the local game industry. Neogames Finland has summarized the industry’s most important goals for the spring 2023 parliamentary elections.
- Full Cycle Game Academy! offers Unreal Engine 9month education in Pärnu.
- Games Now! opened a survey, which is charting views on game trends for 2024.
- Secret Exit is launching a new version of Turbo Dismount in 2023
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An office space of 34m2 is available at the shared office of Playsome Oy and Metaplay Oy. The office is situated in the 4th floor of Kampintorni, Urho Kekkosen katu. You can configure 6-8 desks into the space.Size: 34 m2Price: 2500€/kk (incl VAT 24%)
- Contact: maija@playsome.fi / +358 40 157 7165