Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 10/2020 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
- 7th March SketchBomb Helsinki
- 10th March IGDA Helsinki March Meetup – Games Research and User Experience
- 12 March Game Music Collective is performing in Helsinki
- 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 / Londoncancelled- 14th April Hyper UA Gamevasion / Copenhagen
- 14.-15th April Bit1 / Helsinki
- 23rd-25th April Reboot Develop Blue / Croatia
- Over the years, Develop Blue has become one of the main annual conferences for European game developer communities. Therefore, EGDF and Neogames Finland ry. are happy to announce a 10% discount code for a STANDARD CONFERENCE PASS Please do not hesitate to contact the associations to receive yours.
- Over the years, Develop Blue has become one of the main annual conferences for European game developer communities. Therefore, EGDF and Neogames Finland ry. are happy to announce a 10% discount code for a STANDARD CONFERENCE PASS Please do not hesitate to contact the associations to receive yours.
- 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:
- Redhill Games is looking for Lead Character Artist.
- Frogmind is Looking for 2 more epic people to join our journey of making awesome mobile games:
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1) QA & testing2) Content maker – a versatile mix of level editor & designer. We have something new in the works. No need to know coding this time. If you get games, think you can create cool things with game editors like those in Dreams, Little Big Planet, Trials series or Badland – do contact us quickly. You might be the one we need & we could do very cool things together.Share your motivation with us at jobs@frogmindgames.com.
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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!
Announcements:
- GDC (Game Developers Conference) is cancelled
- Wing’s GDC Relief Fund is now accepting applications. And also looking for sponsors (big companies and companies now in a financially lucky spot: time to help the community!). Consider either side.
- For any in the Finnish Game Community who are still going to San Francisco the week of GDC because of sunk travel cost etc., Kate Edwards, former head of the IGDA, is organizing a get together called “Plan B“.
- altGDC is happening! altGDC is a free mostly-virtual conference about game design and development during the week that other conference was supposed to be running.
- Wallace Poulter (With 30+ years in the games business) is suggesting video calls while with developers while GDC is cancelled
- Gabriele Aimone (from Arcade5) asks since so many companies were ready to go and already prepared their pitch, their talks and their personnel to go and network in SF, why not organising a 3 days mini GDC at Arcade5 in Helsinki? If you want to help or get in touch, please reach him at gabri@helsinkigamescapital.fi
- Reboot Develop Blue conference organisers are introducing a GDC relief effort that is targeted at indies and small companies for whom now cancelled GDC2020 was a key part of their business plan. They are offering:
– 50x Conference Standard Passes
– 20x Indie Expo Slots.
The submission form for applying GDC relief package is available until 13th of March here.
Discussion;
- Gabriele Aimone (from Arcade5) asks since so many companies were ready to go and already prepared their pitch, their talks and their personnel to go and network in SF, why not organising a 3 days mini GDC at Arcade5 in Helsinki? If you want to help or get in touch, please reach him at gabri@helsinkigamescapital.fi
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Anette Dahlstrøm Ståløy asking about no-shoes in offices policies in Finland
Other News:
- Celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8! Read about Yasmine’s (Redhill Games) journey from the world of film into the world of games.
- Living Game Intelligence Network is calling for young game companies! Free support available.
- Barotrauma development continues! They’ve hammered the game’s UI into considerably prettier shape AND done some heavy optimisation done.
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Make Match is now in soft launch, all the feedback greatly appreciated!
- Koukoi Games with ZeptoLab has achived 1,5 million downloads to Om Nom: Run!
- EGD 050: Growing a Games Company with Daniel Hasselberg, Co-Founder and CEO of MAG Interactive
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.