Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 35/2017 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 8th Tracon Peliperjantai / Tampere
- Sep. 16th. MAD Week 2017: Pelihahmo(piirustus)työpaja Otavan asemalla
- Sept. 19-20th PG Connects Helsinki
- Sept. 20th Game Music Collective in Concert. Listen the sample
- Sept. 22-23 4C Conference at St. Petersburg
- Oct. 5-6th Northern Game Summit, Kajaani
- 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:
- RedLynx is looking for Live Producer
- Open positions at Matchmade
- 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:
- Rovio released Angry Birds Match out globally.
- MotionVolt Games Ltd released Flip Master to iOS and Android
Announcements:
- Next Games‘ upcoming game will be a location-based AR game set in The Walking Dead universe.
- Influencer marketing firm Matchmade scores $1.73 million in funding to grow business
Other News;
- Tiltagon Turbo is coming to App Store on September 14th!
- Top Gear: Road Trip for Android devices is here! 120 levels of pure fun, action and whole lotta orbs.
- Apply to the international Indie Prize scholarship before Aug 31st and showcase your game along with the world’s best #indiegames in Kyiv during Casual Connect Kyiv 2017! https://docs.google.com/…/1FAIpQLSenjN9Up1QnU2IE3a…/viewform 50 finalists will be provided with:
- free accommodation in the hostel for two developers
- two free all-access passes to #CasualConnect conference
- free spot to showcase the game in #IndiePrize area
- Frostbullet’s STATUS: INSANE at Play Finland booth during Gamescom 2017
- Northern Game Summit, takes place 5-6th of October in Kajaani, Finland. Main partners this year are @Fingersoft, @Critical Force and @Supercell. Event will have great speakers around the globe, such as Chris Evans from Blizzard Entertainment, voice actor Adam Harrington and Eevi Korhonen from Remedy Entertainment.
- Get tickets https://goo.gl/oFqx7s
and the Speakers, https://goo.gl/PBm7Td Playfinland participants can buy any ticket with 20% discount with promocode NGSPlayFinland.
- Get tickets https://goo.gl/oFqx7s
- The Walking Vegetables video game will be released on STEAM (Windows at first) at 27th of September 2017
- HatchDotLive hit a major milestone this week as we released Hatch Beta in Finland, bringing cloud-based on-demand mobile gaming to consumers for the first time. Watch Vesa Jutila explain what’s it all about!
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.