In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Events:
- Join the Brazilians at Game Connection America on March 15th
- MGF ASIA, a mobile games event, will be held in Hong Kong on April 12-13
- Critical Force Entertainment & DN Network will arrange Critical Ops, mobile online FPS tournament on Sunday Feb 14
- Robin Hunicke – the producer behind Journey, is giving a talk at Aalto’s Games Now! next Monday, Feb 8
Releases:
- Amazon Escape by Fanart Media & Games is on softlaunch at Google Play
- Manhood Trial was made at the Global Game Jam 2016 event in Finland in less than 48 hours
Announcements:
- Rusto’s Spareware – a 4-player couch coop shooter is coming to XboxOne this spring
- Afterlife Entertainment Workshop’s Nanotris is now available @ Steam
- Check out the sneak peak video of SpaceShooter by Part Time Monkey
Open jobs:
- See open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Tunnel Ground announces its funding by Finnish venture capital firm IPR VC and Tekes, congrats!
- If you are Member of JES ry, Peliosuuskunta Expa or IGDA, you are free to use Voimala Jyväskylä Business Park open work space
- Remedy’s Creative Director Sami Järvi was honored for his 20 years of work at Jeuxvideos, congrats!
- Toucharcade: Parta Games’ Upcoming Choppa is ‘Choplifter’ with Procedurally Generated Levels and Explosions
- Snowhound, from Jyväskylä got a publishing and marketing agreement with Channel 4, congrats! (in Finnish)
- Pori game development scene in news, Nopia is behind the MyGamez mascot character design and animations (in Finnish)
- You can help a student with her Master’s Thesis, she is looking for teams of 3-5 gameworkers to be interviewed. The topic is how to make sense of an organization’s strategy
- Researchers at Aalto University School of Business will do a course on the business of games. You can help: what kind of skills are required from your business-focused recruits?
- Critical Ops has now over 1 million downloads on Google Play, congrats!
- Visiolehti: Myytti: pelit ovat vain viihdettä
- Helsigin sanomat: Mediasisältöihin sijoittava rahasto panee rahaa Ville Virtaseen, Risto Isomäkeen ja sarjakuvapeliin
- Kauppalehti: Supercellin Paananen – “Ainoa johtaja, joka ei kitise veroista ja sääntelystä”
- Ilmoittautuminen vuoden parasta oppimisratkaisua etsivään eEemeli-laatukilpailuun on käynnissä helmikuun loppuun saakka, nyt teemana on Parasta oppia
- Games for Health Finland Challenge 2016 on käynnistynyt
- Turun sanomat: Pelikasvatusta tarvitsevat lapset ja vanhemmat
- X-COM-kirjan joukkorahoituskampanjan viimeinen viikko on käynnissä. Varsinaisesta tavoitesummasta puuttuu vielä noin 3500 euroa
- Kilpailu- ja kuluttajaviraston ohjeistus vanhemmille liittyen pelien maksuihin
- Talouselämä: Startup vie suomalaisia pelejä Kiinaan – “Pelimenestys voi olla statussymboli”
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them on the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out last week’s list!