Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 9/2020 from the Finnish Game Industry.
News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.
We (admins) occasionally publish industry related posts or links in Play Finland. But since there is so many things going on, we don´t even try to cover the whole field.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 3rd of March Game Audio Awards 2020
- 4th March IGDA Finland Turku Hub – GAME DAY! and March Meetup
- 5th March AWE Nite Helsinki: XR Game Night
- 16.-17th March Game Connection America
- 18-22nd March; GDC | Game Developers Conference / San Francisco
- IGDA Mentor Cafe happening again during GDC (19th of March)
- April 1st Games First / London.
- 14th April Hyper UA Gamevasion / Copenhagen
- 14.-15th April Bit1 / Helsinki
- 24th April Retro Game Jam 2020 / Turku
- 27-29th May Nordic Game 2020 / Malmö, Sweden
- 16 October W Love Games conference / Helsinki
- Tickets sign-up starts in May and the link is first shared to those who have signed up for W Love Games newsletter. Sign up to a newsletter here.
- 6th of November #XmasJKL 2020 – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar / Jyväskylä
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- Looking for a job:Nils Friedman, an experienced digital marketer with 7 years of Google and Facebook ads experience. See his profile in LinkedIn
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BusinessFinland has launched a nationwide job board to advertise jobs for #English speakers in #Finland. Advertising the open positions in the portal is free of charge for the companies.
- Games Factory Talents launched new Games focused tech Talent board that helps Talents to land a Dream job at a Games Studio in Helsinki. Please check the positions and companies and APPLY
- Pocket hunt has launched their recruiting app for games people in Finland, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Benelux countries, Bangalore and Singapore.
- Jobs in Games: Rovio’s Heini Kaihu on how to get a job as head of studio.
- if people are interested in taking part in ‘Jobs in Games’ series feel free to get in touch with Craig Chapple!
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
Competitions:
- Pelialan opinnäytekilpailu 2020 on avattu! DL: 29.2.2020 / Game Studies Thesis Competition 2020 is open! DL: 29.2.2020
- Bit1 Helsinki confirmed judges for the student game competition;
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
Sonja Ängeslevä, Product Lead of Zynga
Juha Huhtakallio, General Manager of PlayStack Finland
Karoliina Korppoo, CEO of 10th Muse
Teemu Närhi, Senile Senior of Fingersoft - The best Finnish student game is searched by the national game competition Bit1. The preliminaries, PreBits, are held in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Kajaani in the beginning of March. Application period is between extended until 2.3.2020
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
Funding:
- Ask Anything About Crowdfunding! presentations from the event here
Announcements:
- Koukoi games announces cooperation with ZeptoLab for a while now, to bring you Om Nom: Run!
- Finnish Game Awards are just around a corner and we wish to hear YOUR PROPOSAL for the Finnish ”Applied Game of the Year 2019”! Submit below the applied game developed by your company, your team or by yourself and originally released during 2019 – no later than Friday 13th of March 2020 / Vuoden Hyötypeli 2019 Suomessa. Vuoden 2019 hyötypelin valitsee Suomen Pelinkehittäjät ry. Voittaja julkistetaan ja palkitaan juhlayleisön ja lehdistön edessä Suomen Pelinkehittäjät ry:n ja Neogames Finland ry:n Peligaalassa 16.4.2020. Ilmoita alla yrityksesi, tiimisi tai itsesi tekemä ja vuoden 2019 aikana julkaistu hyötypeli viimeistään perjantaina 13.3.2020.
Releases;
- People Vs People is now also available for Android!
- Koukoi games announces cooperation with ZeptoLab for a while now, to bring you Om Nom: Run!
- Ilmari Hakkola is researching the best ways of implementing charities & climate action projects to games. Thetve just launched a test of their first game; Planet Patrol: Oceans on & and + survey regarding to this
Discussion;
- Teemu Hemminki asks if it is possible to do streaming for money while being unemployed job seeker in Finland?
- Combo Breaker is looking for a new office (at least 60m2 preferably downtown Helsinki),any recommandations?
- Good questions about crowdfunding leadin by Noora Frelander
Other News:
- Photos (by Jenni Paajanen) from Neogames’ Japan Games Market event
- GAMEPIT – ESPORT SPACE @Jyväskylä have awesome esport space with full 12 computer playing set and Playstation play corner set with sofa.
- Rumour; Apple will require all App Store games to have ISBNs in China from July
- Diverse and independent teams are the key to connecting with global audiences.
- This time of year many youngsters are eagerly looking for work practice (TET)-places and we in Neogames get a lot of inquiries about game industry´s TET possibilities. If you are willing to offer TET-place for some of these 14-15 year old future game developers, please ping me (suviATneogames.fi). Since TET-practice can also be seen as increasing awareness of different work tasks and different people behind those, we appreciate all the support from the community in this matter.
- EGD 049: Game Development Evolution with Reko Ukko, Co-Founder at Seriously
- See the list of Finnish companies are going to be at GDC/GC San Francisco this year. (Let us know if your company is missing on the list, so we will add it there)
- Neogames continues with updating Youtube playlist Awesome Finnish Games with game trailers of released games. To get your game to the playlist just tell about your game release in Play Finland group. Also, if you want to stay updated about latest game trailers, follow Play Finland on Youtube.
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.