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!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
In this report we will combine this 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:
- June 10-12th Health Game Jam, Kuopio DigiKuopio -ideakilpailu 10.6.2016 Health Game Jameilla
- 17-19.6 Powerlan
- July 27th – 28th. Startup Festival, Games Track. Held during Meripäivät – Kotka Maritime Festival.
- 28-29 June White Nights / 15% off with promocode PlayFinland + Finnish Game Day: http://wnconf.com/en/
finnish-game-day / St. Petersburg - September 5th-6th. Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki
- Aalto EE; Game Executive September 7-14
- 7-10 October. International Gamian-esce live role play event Price of Inspiration,
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Palringo are looking for a front-end game developer to join our chat game team in Helsinki
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Releases:
- Hero Siege Pocket Edition
- 10 Shot Soccer is just out from the oven for iOS & Android.
- Iceflake Studios Oy‘s Premium Pool now available on Android, iOS and Steam
- BADLAND 2 is now available for the #AppleTV
- Pro Pilkki 2 for Android devices
- Lola Panda Learn-to-read app
- Voidofheroes available on the iOS AppStore, Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android! Promovideo
- Nonocube at GooglePlay
- Battle Buzz available now also from the Apple App Store!
Announcements:
- Stupid Stupid Games: Action RPG Johnny Graves—The Unchosen One Enters Early Access Next Week
- Remedy working on two new, big games, neither are Alan Wake.
Other news:
- Finland’s games scene – all work and all play
- Hideyuki Shima a freelance music composer from Japan is looking for Finnish game developers who need the services of a decent composer.
- Shadowbug; Apple praises Finnish students’ groundbreaking mobile game
- Torulf Jernström; Why is Clash Royale running out of steam?
- (only in Finnish) Lemmikki työpaikalla lisää hyvinvointia – toimistokoira Nella saa esiin nörttimiesten pehmeän puolen
- (only in Finnish) Kolme pelifirmaa/peleihin (Supercell, Unity Technologies, Colossal Order) liittyvää yritystä Suomen 100:n kovimman kasvajan joukossa!
- Tony Kihlberg Dev Blogish update for Project: Longtail
- Koukoi Games describing how a mobile game concept and design evolves during the development process.
- LED IT RAIN – Shark Bikes And Bikinis In Hell
- Nonstop Knight is Flaregames’ most successful launch ever with 2 million downloads in 4 days
- http://www.koplagames.com/
- – Over 2 million installs as of Monday morning
– Ranked in “Top 100 apps” in 130 countries
– Ranked in “Top 5 RPGs” in App Store in 126 countries
– Player feedback at 4.5 stars and above in all countries
– Players clock over 3 million hours in-game – or roughly 281 years:D
– Over 100 million bosses defeated by players, vanquishing the likes of Chubby Cheeks, Edward the Eerie and Fedor the Fool!
- Some light technical mumbo jumbo on the final atmosphere technology of Reset by Mikko, accompanied by screenshots and a video!
- Call for Speakers: *ship Startup Festival, Games Track. Held during Meripäivät – Kotka Maritime Festival. July 27th – 28th.
- Bloomberg spreading rumours of Softbank selling it’s Supercell shares
- Ville from Firetail Games offers music or sound design for game or other projects.
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!