Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 38/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
In this report we will combine the week 38/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
- Sept. 29th New Co Factory: In Search of Team Members
- September 29-30th SLUSH Play / Reykjavik / Island
- Nordic Game Discovery Contest debuts on 5 October at the Day Zero pre-event of the Northern Game Summit (6-7 October) in Kajaani Finland
- 7-10 October Larp Event: Price of Inspiration, /Tammela
- October 26th- 28th Game Connection Europe / Paris
- Neogames has negotiated a very reasonably priced offer (DL: SEP.5th) to its members for Game Connection Europe in Paris. In the spirit of the Nordic co-operation Neogames shares this offer with other Nordic clusters, NGI and their members. More info:http://www.neogames.fi/
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- Neogames has negotiated a very reasonably priced offer (DL: SEP.5th) to its members for Game Connection Europe in Paris. In the spirit of the Nordic co-operation Neogames shares this offer with other Nordic clusters, NGI and their members. More info:http://www.neogames.fi/
- 18th of Nov. XmasJKL 2016 Game Industry seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland – Early Birds are ON! Get your tickets FAST to great game dev seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland 18th of Nov 2016 with great line up of speakers and people from the Game Industry. Early Birds are ON!
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Open positions at Remedy; Game Designer and others
- Are you a huMONGOus fan of (heavy) music? Are you ready to fight Pythons in the Amazon jungle with no REST? We might have a job for you then! Backend Developer / Yousician
- Freelance-töitä tarjolla peliharrastajille! EHYT ry hakee Pelitaito-menetelmälle uusia kouluttajia.
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Releases:
- Game Industry Statistics of the Nordic Countries and Finland by Samuli Syvähuoko
- Spareware’s Steam-page went live & the game is coming out for Windows in Early October!
- Corgi Pro Skater is out worldwide! Appstore & GooglePlay
Announcements:
- Tiny Troopers Joint Ops has been nominated TIGA Game Industry Awards finalist in the Arcade Games category!https://tiga.org/awards/2016-categories
- Pocket Gamer Hall of Fame: Delving into the mind of Badland developer Johannes Vuorinen
- Frogmind has entered into a long-term partnership with Supercell!
- Taitaja2017 National Skills Competition will launch a Game Development competition for vocational college students. The competition will take place at Messukeskus Expo and Convention center 15.-18.5.2017. Semifinals will be arranged at Stadin ammattiopisto (Helsinki) and PKKY (Outokumpu) in February 2017.
Other News;
- Supercell teki sen taas! Clash Royale syrjäytti Pokémon Gon listan kärjestä USA:ssa
- Urban Empire @ PAX
- Supercell CEO Ilkka Paananen talks company culture, expansion plans and eSports
- Need graphics? Cute character designs or game assets? Hologram Monster is again available for service! Check out references from the site
- Supercell weighing up investments in other developers and opening new studios
- Aalto University does Pokemon Research
- Office space for game developers in Tampere. Contact; Johanna Roihuvuo, Office manager
johanna@valaa.com / 044-5070781
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!