Tuomas Erikoinen and Miika Virtanen has formed a new game company called Wild Spark and already released their first game! The Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies & Tampere University Game Research Lab has released new Finnish Player Barometer (in Finnish). Pelimetsä website will be updated on next year with a _simple_ CO2 footprint calculator, which can be used as a measure for voluntary donations.
This week news at the Finnish Games Industry are short.
Few more Industry events coming before the Christmas and Harha Games has reached one million players!
Noice is organising an exclusive demo and evening of fun - sign up soon.
Neogames Finland has put together a checklist for any game studio to use to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions.
Yahaha Studios raised $40 million! + New Metacore games incoming as Merge Mansion hits $135m revenue, 30m installs +Psyon Games wins the award for the Most Valuable Patient Education work in the Reuters Pharma Awards Europe 2022 with their ADHD awareness game co-created with Takeda, FULL ADHD. + Remedy Entertainment signs a co-development and co-publishing agreement with 505 Games for Control 2
Highest taxpayers in Finland comes from games industry + BIT ODD comes out of stealth and raises €5m Seed round.
Makea Games, Finnish game studio raised 1.3mil€ preseed funding round led by Play Ventures.
Flowstate Games unveils Web3 arcade game Smash Stars: Thunderdome and $2M funding + Neogames & The Finnish Game Developers Association updated their model for CO2 emissions calculations.
Tribo Games raises €1,2M to pioneer Web3 multiplayer games for the masses.