In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
We are very happy that this year San Francisco is going to see a huge delegation of Finnish game developers, see you all there and have a great time!
Check out Neogames’ report on the Finnish game industry 2015
GDC / Games Connection America:

• PlayRaven’s artist Stuart Macdonald’s will have a talk at GDC
• Female programmers at GDC might be interested: Women in Games Programming meetup

Events:

• Animecon 2016 in Jyväskylä on July 9-10, you can demo your game at the fair

Releases:

• Greener Grass has extended the soft launch of their game Dicemancer – Let’s Lock ’n Roll to Finland, available for iOS only at the moment
• Blobsy Adventure by Rammin’Speed Entertainment Ltd is now available at Google Play
• A new game studio, Sapeli Studio released it’s first game called Pilots of the Dawn
• Muro Studios crunched an iOS version of the Bro Fist Simulator
• Small Giant Games’ action multiplayer game Rope Racers is now available at the App Store, Android version follows on the 17th of March
• PlayRaven’s robot game, Robocide, launches on Android too
• Parta Games soft-launched Choppa in both the App Store and Google Play in a couple of territories (AU,CA,NZ,FI)

Announcements:

• Kiemura’s Tiltagon will be released at Steam on March 29. It will be available for PC, Mac and Linux with cross-platform Steam Cloud sync
• Fragment Production’s Urban Empire is a strategy game that lets you rule cities, not just build them
• Spareware by Rusto Games is coming to Xbox One on March 18
• You can follow Boomlagoon’s upcoming game Super Soldiers‘ process
• Galactic Echoes by Ikoniac is coming this spring
• 10tons is developing an upcoming top-down shooter game: Neon Chrome
• Halflike’s Mad Art Millionaire: Introducing Dude & D.D – or How My Dad Lost His Moustache and Learned to Communicate

Open jobs:

• Seriously is looking for a Data Scientist
• Playmore Games is looking for an Astonishing Community Manager and a Spectacular Graphics Designer
• Koukoi Games is hiring a mobile Game Producer
• See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland

Other news:

• BelleGames’ innovation: the machine that makes “thegame” – It is the beginning of everything
• Here’s how Yousician took their 30+ team to Thailand for one month
• Colossal Order’s Cities: Skylines has over two million copies sold after one year of the release, congrats!
• Koukoi Games’ blog post about quality animations and character design
• Gamasutra: a cautionary tale for Game Developers, Twitchers, YouTubers and Bloggers
• Playfield by Shark Punch launches new features for its PC game store that has nearly 100K members
• With just 3 games, Supercell made $924M in profits on $2.3B in revenue in 2015
• If you are interested in markets like Russia and China and you need a local partner, Rebound Mobile‘s service is now available for the Finnish games industry
• YouTuber Nigma plays Red Nettle Studios’ Bottom of the Well

• Rovio houkutteli lintukuiskaaja Ville Heijarin takaisin markkinointijohtajaksi
• Pelaaja, teetkö pelien pohjalta modeja, cosseja tai mitä tahansa muuta sisältöä (ns. fanituotantoa)? Auta graduntekijää!
• Supercell ei petä: Pelitalo takoi 2,1 miljardin liikevaihdon
• Kotimaisilta peliyrityksiltä kaivataan ideoita musiikkibisnekseen
• Vilkaan keskustelun aiheuttanut Nyt-liitteen artikkeli: Suomen pelialalla menee lujaa, mutta Ruotsissa tehdään parempia pelejä

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!