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This week, good news from the Finnish Game Industry includes Remedy and Annapurna announcing a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and plans to bring Control and Alan Wake to film and television. Makea Games has launched their highly anticipated parkour game, Supermoves on Steam. Metacore is celebrating significant milestones, with Merge Mansion surpassing $500 million in lifetime revenue and 55 million app downloads. A big highlight for Neogames was that KooPee Hiltunen and Suvi Latva had the honour of introducing the Finnish Game Industry to top-level Chinese ISBN authorities. Lastly, don’t forget — TODAY is the last day to apply for the Games First 2024 event!
💎Highlights
- Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 and bringing Control and Alan Wake to film and television
- Makea Games released Supermoves (with 10 languages, including Japanese) at Steam on 28th August
- Metacore celebrates double milestones for Merge Mansion. The game has passed $500 million in lifetime revenue and amassed 55 million app downloads
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📣Neogames News
- This week Neogames Finland’s ry KooPee Hiltunen and Suvi Latva had a pleasure to introduce Finnish Game Industry for the top level Chinese ISBN authorities (General of the Publication Bureau Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee) Chen Lan (Division Chief) and Yang Fang (Deputy Director) with their delegation. Building strong global networks and connections has always been our high priority. Visit of this very high delegation was organized and hosted by MyGamez Ltd.; Mikael Leinonen & Charles Chiang, Amazon Web Services (AWS); Sari Uusitalo and Business Finland; Janne Kari & Joey Gui
📰 Game Industry (+reacearch) News and thoughts
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Games First has announced the first speaker, the legendary Trip Hawkins! Apply the ticket TODAY!
- Metacore’s Product Manager Tim Shepherd explains the “three steps that game developers can follow to integrate player psychology into game development and create experiences that truly resonate with players.”
- IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024 – Keynote Speaker Announcement; The first Keynote Speaker Celine Pasula from Ubisoft RedLynx!
- Game developers with a master’s degree interested in pursuing a doctoral degree are invited to apply for supervision opportunities for the upcoming academic year. The focus is on research aligned with the Game Design Praxiology framework, particularly studies related to personal practice or peer groups. While full funding is recommended, many candidates continue working in the industry alongside their research. Assistance with grant applications is available. Supervision is offered at both Aalto University and the University of Lapland. For further details of the research group, inquiries can be directed via email to annakaisa.kultima@aalto.fi.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Harakka Studio has a great success (currently €191,621) with their Kickstarter campaign for the game called Pleasant
😍 NEW Finnish games released:
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Makea Games released Supermoves (with 10 languages, including Japanese) at Steam on 28th August
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo application period for demo grants is open until 6 September
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine; “How to help me notice your job application”
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
⏰ Neogames reminds
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Registration for Games First 2024 ends TODAY. The event is free, but spaces are limited – apply for your ticket https://supr.cl/gf-apply by August 30th.
👉 Upcoming Events
- 10th September: IGDA Finland Meetup / Helsinki. Doors will open at 16:30 and seminar starts at 17:15. The seminar will be focused on the main implications of EU sustainability legislation on the games industry + Demo Corner is back in business! Sign up here
- 18th September: Game Industry in Turmoil / NGS side event
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September; Meetup for Game Studio founders. The event is for game studios or soon-to-be game studios looking for more founders, or a game dev looking to be a part of team. Mobile and PC/Console devs are welcome to Hive Helsinki
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 1st-3rd October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024
- discount code: PlayFinland20
- Be a speaker at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this October? Submit your talk here
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
- 30th October Games First Helsinki Registration is open at https://supr.cl/gf-apply ! The event is free, but spaces are limited – apply for your ticket by August 30th.
See also following calendars:
- The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
- Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
- Flemish Game association calendar
- Game Industry Biz
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundups here.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland