Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine last week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
In this report we will combine last week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
- May 23rd Lisensseistä liiketoimintaa – Aamiaisseminaari brändilisensoinnista ja IPR-bisneksestä
- May 30th Metrics Monday meetup
- GameFounders‘s Games on Tour: East-West meetup in Tallinn May 30 – June 2nd
- June 3 AEC Hackathon 3.2 Helsinki
- June 6th #International #Market #Entryseminar at NewCo Helsinki. https://www.facebook.com/events/196423270733044/
- June 8th Game Spring Oulu releases key speaker: Chris Avellone
- June 8th Game Music Awards 2016
- June 10-12th Health Game Jam, Kuopio
- 17-19.6 Powerlan
- Aalto EE; Game Executive September 7-14
Releases:
- Critical Ops‘s Team Death Match game mode video released today
- JAKE – Life speedrun: The game can be found on Google Play and Steam Greenlight.
- An update to our Rope Racers multiplayer game is out now! Android & iOS
• NEW game mode World Cup
• NEW levels: Water Shot & Crushy Lakes
• NEW underwater racer: Diver! - Namida Diamond Factory‘s new mobile game has been launched globally.
- The Angry Birds Movie’ Nests Atop the Box Office & The Angry Birds Movie soars to No. 1 in the U.S. and China & Box Office: ‘Angry Birds’ Flocking Toward Winning $40 Million-Plus Debut
Announcements:
- Fatigue is on Steam Greenlight
- Koukoi Games‘ mobile game Crashing Season will be released in around 2 weeks!It is now soft launched in Finland through Google Play (iOS version to be released during Global Launch). Give some feedback
Open jobs:
- Appstar is hiring!
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Other news:
- The Best Nordic Game of the Year to Cities: Skylines
- The Best Nordic Game of the Year for Small Screen goes to BADLAND 2
- Ida-Emilia Kaukonen‘s vlog entry about Games First Helsinki 2016.
- Only in Finnish; Raakaa pudotuspeliä: Kouvolasta piti tulla pelialan keskittymä – köpelösti kävi
- Atomic Puzzle featured on App Store puzzle games category. https://goo.gl/eprzSx
- Max Sjöblom ja Daniela Yli-Kiikka vuoden 2016 pelialan opinnäytekilpailun voittoon
- Next Games enjoys 80% opt-in rate for rewarded video ads, driving ARPDAU of $0.06
- Zemeho is music to the ears of gamers
- Tony Kihlberg writes Dev blog – 8 – Project Longtail team update and concept art
- Simo Talasranta klassisen koulutuksen saanut pelisäveltäjä ja erikoistunut orkesterimusiikkiin. Säveltää, sovittaa ja tuottaa itse kaikki projektit, samaan tapaan kuin Jeremy Soule.
- Supercell nousi Suomen arvokkaimpien yritysten top 10:iin
- 1ablo Serrano 2D game artist, looking for a job position in some video game project, in the areas of Espoo and Helsinki. See the portfolio
- Bouncing birds, staying on brand and deconstructing Supercell’s canned Smash Lands The making of Angry Birds Action!
- Only in Finnish; Oululais–vantaalainen pelistudio julkaisi mobiilipelin keksijästä ja kissasta
- Only in Finnish; Kiinassa odotetaan jo kuumeisesti huomista ensi-iltaa ja verkkokaupan räjähtämistä. #rovio #angrybirds
- Sony and Rovio hope $400-million promotional blitz will help ‘Angry Birds’ soar
- Clash of Clans developer boosted Finland’s capital gains tax total by a fifth
- Are you tired of finding feature creep late into the production? Localization is all Greek to you? Is QA cost keeping you up at night? Google Play is not play at all? Your social media collects dust instead of fans? Full XP is here now!
- Only in Finnish; Työnantajakuva: Kone kakkoseksi – Supercell johtoon
- GameFounders is looking for intakes again. A 3 month accelerator program that will connect you with mentors and industry experts from all over the world.
- Koukku: Study seeks solution to positive game commitment
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 previous week’s list!