This week in the Finnish game industry (week 39/15)

Events:

• Games Now! Lectures start again on Sept 28
• Northern Game Summit in Kajaani on October 1-2
• IGDA Finland October Gathering with Remedy on Oct 6
• Health Game Jam Kuopio 9.-11.10.
• Metropolia GameJam Oct 16-18

Releases:

• Nordic Edu released Tile Tales for iOS
• Parta Games released Go! Go! Meatballs on Google Play

Announcements:

• Reset by Theory Interactive is now on Steam Greenlight

Open jobs:

• DoDreams is hiring
• RedLynx is hiring
• See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland

Other news:

• Cities Skylines won the Golden Cube at Unity Awards! Congrats!
• Fingersoft is building a game campus in Oulu together with local partners (in Finnish)
• Shark Punch shares their ideas for the next game after Masterplan
• DoDreams’ ‎DriveAhead‬! Android soft launch takes top positions in racing download ranks: #1 Denmark, #3 Australia, #6 Finland
• The presentation videos from IGDA Finland presents: Umbra Ignite 2015 seminar are now on Youtube
• If you are a virtual reality developer / enthusiast join the FIVR group on Facebook
• Swing Game – a movie about game industry in Finland tomorrow at the Love & Anarchy film festival
• Answer a survey about developing serious games (and win a pass to Slush)

This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them to the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. See the previous post here.