Events:
- Register for Tekes Skene End Seminar on Nov 10
- Sign-up for IGDA’s Gathering Party at Slush!
- SLUSH <3 NewCo Helsinki – PopUp Business Container at Narinkkatori on Nov 10
- FbStart Helsinki event during Slush on Nov 12
- Tekesin Mediapäivä 25.11.
Releases:
- Futureplay Games’ first game is out. Farm Away! is available for iOS. #MakeHayNotWar
- Epic Owl Ltd.’s first game Starside Arena will be available globally on iOS on Nov 10
New versions:
Announcements:
- Dreamloop Games announced Challengers of Khalea
- New company, two-man game studio Oddrok
Open jobs:
- Several positios at Reforged Studios
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Tips on how to get a job in the Finnish game industry
- Turun yliopiston tutkimusverkosto Up Your Game:n kyselytutkimus pelaamisesta
- Jyväskylän yliopiston tutkimuskysely mobiililiikuntapeleistä
- Bpifrance ja Tekes käynnistivät ranskalais-suomalaisen pk-rahoitushaun innovatiivisille start-up- ja kasvuyrityksille
- Tribeflame CEO Torulf Jernström on why you need to spend $100,000 to prove your F2P games works
- Sekopäinen Matkailua pelialalla –sarjakuva muuttuu tv-komediaksi
- New blog: Pocket Philosopher
- Remedy’s upcoming Quantum Break is the cover story of Game Informer’s December issue
- 26 Proven Growth Features That All App Developers Should Know About
- Fan Art competition. Deadline on Nov 8
- Vanhala’s, Kasurinen’s and Smolander’s article: Evolution of computer game developer organizations
- The Layer Approach – A New Way of Looking at Mobile Game Genres
- Peliskaba2015-kisan voittajaksi valittiin Hemmo Kauppisen pelisuunnitelma Pohjan pilkki
- Nitro Games’ Raids of Glory received best social game award at Game Connection in Paris (in Finnish)
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.