Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 43/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
In this report we will combine the week 43/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
- 29th Oct. Playmore Games is having an Office Warming Halloween Party this upcoming Saturday in Sörnäinen, Helsinki.
- 8th Nov. Lähiverkko-projekti Eläkeliitto ja EHYT ry’s game seminar “Kaikki pelaa” for elderly people, employees who work with them and game developers and -company’s
- 14th of Nov. IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub is organizing “The Concept of Art in Games” Exhibition @ Jyväskylä City Library.
- 17th Nov. Uusi Auttaa Vanhaa – Peli- ja teknologiatapahtuma senioreille / Oulu
- 18th of Nov. XmasJKL 2016 Game Industry seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland – Early Birds are ON! Get your tickets FAST to great game dev seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland 18th of Nov 2016 with great line up of speakers and people from the Game Industry. Early Birds are ON!
- 23rd-26th Nov. ReCon Blockchain developers bootcamp in Helsinki
- 25th- 27th November. Junction 2016 Helsinki
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
- Oct 11, 2017. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Kopla is for looking for a senior graphic artist.
- 700+ game companies in the Nordics to get an overview of game development jobs available right now. Currently 440 job openings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway – browse through them at http://gameform.eu/
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Releases:
- Kamina Dimension Ltd releases free demo version of Grab the Bottle on Steam
- Joonas Paloheimo is releasing Intruders From Outer Space
- My Summer Car in Steam Early Access
- Next Games & AMC on integrating Season 7 in The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land. First time a game and a TV show have been this integrated. First levels just unlocked! More:
- Platonic Partnership’s Lydia is at Steam Greenlight
- Johannes Linnamaa is Trump Flip
- Prodigium Game Studios is releasing (and getting featured) Willy The Striker for iOS
- Oddrok’s Power Hover is at Steam Greenlight
- RamminSpeed is soft launching Magnaut
- Outloud Apps are launching games for kids in the US market
- Punch Wolf is releasing Griddle speed puzzle game for Galaxy app store
Announcements;
- Neogames Finland is updating the Finnish Game company lists, inform us if you are not in the list http://www.neogames.fi/en/industry-info/operators/
- 7,000,000 players for Nonstop Knight!
- Taitaja2017 National Skills Competition will launch a Game Development competition for vocational college students. The competition will take place at Messukeskus Expo and Convention center 15.-18.5.2017. Semifinals will be arranged at Stadin ammattiopisto (Helsinki) and PKKY (Outokumpu) in February 2017.
- Bad Crane‘s Make More has million players
Other News;
- survey for game companies in order to develop brand related coaching material for game startups. The survey is aimed to all kinds of game companies, not only startups. The survey is carried out by Vaasa University of Applied Sciences
- Pelisydän pyrkii tekemään Tampereen yliopistollisen sairaalan lastenklinikan potilaiden olosta mahdollisimman viihtyisää. Jokainen, niin yksityishenkilö kuin firmakin voi osallistua talkoisiin ainakin kolmella eri tavalla. Lisätietoa: www.pelisydan.fi
- Dodreams has taken #1 & #2 spots for iPad racing games in the US today with the ‘Drive Ahead!’ family of Games. 1 million downloads for the new title ranking Drive Ahead high for Popular Games this Week, according to Appstatics.
- Reforged Studios, Playraven and MyGamez are attending to G-star / Korea
- FIVR, Iceflake Studios, Teatime Research, Nemesis Perspective, Lollihop, Vizor, Small Giant, Mindfield, 3rd Eye, Futurefly and MurMur are attending to SLUSH Shanghai
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