Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 37/2017 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
See also the latest (updated) report of the Finnish Game Industry.
Events:
- Sep. 16th. MAD Week 2017: Pelihahmo(piirustus)työpaja Otavan asemalla
- Sept 18-19th Rovio suunnittelee listautumista Nasdaq Helsingin pörssilistalle. Ilmoittautuminen Helsingin, Turun ja Tampereen 18.–19.9. infotilaisuuksiin.
- Sept 18th Apprien; Pre-PGC 2017 Party & Mixer
- Sept. 19-20th PG Connects Helsinki
- Sept. 20th Game Music Collective in Concert. Listen the sample
- Sept 22nd Panic Art Studios Game Jam
- Sept. 22-23 4C Conference at St. Petersburg
- Sept. 26th IGDA Finland September Gathering
- Oct. 5-6th Northern Game Summit, Kajaani
- Oct. 10-11th, White Nights in Moscow.
- Finnish developer can get a booth for free at the exhibition and enjoy networking with world-leading companies.
- Oct 11, 20917. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
- 19.-21.10. on areenatapahtuma Turussa. Mukana lanit, eSM-turnauksia, miniatyyriturnauksia, MTG:ia, expo-alue, tubettajia (esim. eeddspeaks ja Ink Owl) Tapahtuman liput ovat myynnissä nyt
- Nov. 1st – 3rd Game Connection Europe => Join The Nordics DL: Sept. 18th
- 16-19th Nov. G-Star Korea
- 17-18th of Nov 2017 #XmasJKL is coming AGAING!
- 30Nov-1st Dec SLUSH HELSINKI
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs:
- 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
Announcements:
- Kiemura’s JiPPO! Street was featured on Best New Updates in China, Canada and a few other countries. Also Kiemura’s Tiltagon Turbo was selected to New Games We Love in USA!
Other News;
- (Only in Finnish) Yliopistot innostuivat tutkimaan pelejä – “Peleistä on tullut oikea teollisuudenala Suomessa”
- A few spots from Finland are still open at our next 48h Game Camp (Game Camps Riga at Sept. 29th- Oct.1st), so if someone here is still thinking of starting a new game studio, this is an awesome opportunity.
- Pelikasvatuksellisia vinkkejä sekä listaa muutaman hyvän tietolähteen aiheesta
- VR version of Ice Lakes is now playable in a brand new VR Arcade, Portaali, in Tampere Finland. Ice fishing can be done at any time of the year and in any weather. Also multiplayer competitions are possible! If you like to experience VR ice fishing and do not have your own VR equipment, go and check out www.portaali.fi
- Deconstructing Rovio’s pragmatically Finnish IPO
- Suomeen perustettiin Euroopan ensimmäinen pelimusiikkiin keskittyvä orkesteri – ”Tarve kasvaa räjähdysmäisesti”
- ‘Frozenbyte’s Kai Tuovinen notes that it has “definitely been easier than Wii U development, and the development environment and backend/documentation has vastly improved from those days. Switch development was really smooth for Has-Been Heroes, and it’s going great for Nine Parchments as well.”
- FDG Entertainment’s Oceanhorn has sold more copies on Switch than all other consoles combined
- Anybody else struggling to find time to make games, while working at a full time job? I’m not interested in making a game for 1-2 years, so it looks like small projects like this are perfect for the time being.
- Lauri Koskenniemi Helsingissä asuva muusikko, Assemblyn Listening Music skaban voittaja (lohikäärmebiisillä) etsii tällä hetkellä ekaa pelisävellysduunia. Samples here.
- Research-based player profiling test & AI based game recommendation engine (beta)
- Game Music Blowout 2017 Koostevideo
- Vuoden pelikasvattaja -äänestys on taas täällä. Antakaa äänenne kuulua!
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.