Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 44/2016 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 44/2016 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:
- 8th Nov. Lähiverkko-projekti Eläkeliitto ja EHYT ry’s game seminar “Kaikki pelaa” for elderly people, employees who work with them and game developers and -company’s
- 11th Nov. The Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) organizes in cooperation with the European Patent Office (EPO) a seminar on the “Grey Areas” of Computer Implemented Inventions
mallintamiseen perustuvia tuotteita. - 14th of Nov. IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub is organizing “The Concept of Art in Games” Exhibition @ Jyväskylä City Library.
- 17th Nov. Uusi Auttaa Vanhaa – Peli- ja teknologiatapahtuma senioreille / Oulu
- 18th to 20th of November Game Jam in Tampere! Sponsored by RAY!
- 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!
- 23rd-26th Nov. ReCon Blockchain developers bootcamp in Helsinki
- 25th- 27th November. Junction 2016 Helsinki
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
- 30th Nov. side-event during Slush to mingle with fellow Dutchmen (and women)
- Nov 30 – Dec. 1st SLUSH Helsinki
- Oct 11, 2017. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Rovio is looking for performance marketer. Also other positions open
- Koukoi Games is growing and looking for experienced, deeply motivated and passionate Game Programmer to join our team at Koukoi Games.
- Motorious Entertainment is looking for a Marketing Intern to help drive them forward towards their goal of becoming the go-to studio for branded games on mobile.
- 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:
- Frak ltd‘s GladiatorBastards is in beta
- Kyy Games students releases NeoNinja in Google Play
- Steampunker is in Greenlight
- SUPER COLOR RUSH available in Appstore
- Codespace releases Dungeon Of Doom Puzzle in STEAM
- Meizi releases Brake or Break for iPhone & iPad and Android devices
Announcements;
- Neogames Finland is updating the Finnish Game company lists, inform us if you are not in the list http://www.neogames.fi/en/industry-info/operators/
- The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) is pleased to announce that submissions for its 20th annual D.I.C.E. Awards (#DICEAwards) is now open.
- My Summer Car is doing really fine regarding amount of downloads
- Griddle – Speed Puzzle got featured in Galaxy Apps store!! Punch Wolf Game Studios was second studio who was on-boarded to Games for Samsung program. Read the full article from Samsung Developers:
- Game Development World Championship: Skidstorm, Pixel Disc Golf 2 and Galactic Hero Agency: Mind Matters were chosen as Semi-finalists for the competition.
Other News;
- What is Game User Research and how it benefits game development? Check out these videos describing it by top GUR people from companies like Ubisoft and Electronic Arts
- Rovio brings back former VP of Ads from Unity and hires new Senior VP of Studios
- Full XP services can be bought with Tekes innovation voucher
- Valve requires that game pictures at Steam need to be realistic and from actual game.
- Grail Group e-sports company introduction
- Calling Unity developers and companies using Unity! Unity has introduced a new service – Unity Connect – a tool for putting projects in need of more hands together with Unity developers looking for the next gig.
- Timo Ylikangas claims Kajak Games to be second biggest Finnish Game Company.
- Steam Charts: Now That’s What I Call PC Gaming
- A Gamer Spent 200 Hours Building an Incredibly Detailed Digital San Francisco in Cities Skylines
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