Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Check out Neogames’ report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
- The third AIHelsinki event focuses on computational creativity in character animation and Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo vs. world Go champion Lee Sedol, in Helsinki on March 23
Releases:
- Spareware by Rusto Games has been released on Xbox One
- Small Giant Games launched Rope Racers also at Google Play
- Haun Play from Tampere, in partnership with Team Jolly Roger from Kajaani, created a game: Rescue Paws, now soft-launched at Google Play
- Playraven’s latest release Winterstate is now available across App Stores worldwide
- The Tales of Bingwood,a tribute for the golden age of point and click adventures, by Pixel Delusion Workshop is now available at Steam
- Kyy Games’ Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards is in Greenlight with an all new version of their classic card game Cabals
- Iceflake Studios has been making a new arcade spirited pool game Premium Pool, it is now out at Steam
- Xenoraid by 10tons is up for voting at Steam Greenlight, it is a classic vertically scrolling space shoot’em up with a fresh game-play twist: angled shooting
- Teppo Särkkä / EXPA JKL & Fanart Media & Games’ Toucan’s Amazon Escape is available at Google Play. By playing you will support Fundação Amazonas Sustentável create a sustainable society
Announcements:
- Kiemura’s Tiltagon was Greenlit in January and on March 29 the game will be released at Steam. It will be available for PC, Mac and Linux with cross-platform Steam Cloud sync
- Crazy Space Studios is a new game studio from Kouvola, they make projects with unreal, MMO and casual ball game
Open jobs:
- Kukouri Mobile Entertainment is looking for a Unity Programmer for a short gig
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Daily Motion: Making of Hellblade: The Senua – A Virtual Human
- Koukoi’s blog: Building your company is at the same time building up your company’s brand identity
- Kajaani University of Applied Sciences offers summer studies in Game Development
- Mynewsdesk has a competition, apply and you might win a campaign for your game with the goal of reaching 100 million people
- Pocket Gamer: What EA’s Petri Ikonen learned from designing SimCity BuildIt
- Ludocraft’s blog: Some thoughts about why games and gaming are same but different
- Seriously is now adding over 30,000,000 downloads with Best Fiends, congrats!
- Do you need a new coffee table to your studio? Check out this one, it is also a console remote
- Pocket Gamer: Ville Heijari returns to the nest; he’s Rovio’s new CMO
- Tampereella tutkitaan miten F2P huomioidaan alusta alkaen pelien kehityskaaressa
- Kuopiolainen Caffeine Overdose: Emme enää jaksaneet tehdä opintopisteillä, vaan perustimme firman
- Kotkalaiset elokuvantekijät perustavat pelifirman ja pyrkivät rohkeasti maailman huipulle, dokkari Swing Game nyt Areenassa
- Kaupplehti: Nopea toiminta on paras lääke piratismiin
- Suomen hyötypelialan tilannekuvaa kootaan Tekesin tilauksesta ja SGC Finlandin toimesta. Jos yrityksesi/organisaatiosi/tiimisi tekee hyötypelejä, vastaa kyselyyn
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!