Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
In this report we will combine this week’s happenings from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015
Events:
- Meet The Mobile Gaming Experts, in Helsinki on May 9
- Game Music Awards 2016 (June 8th) is getting closer! 2 days left to submit your tracks
- Games Now! – An open and free lectures
- May 9th Finnish Game Jam Awards
- May 9th Meet the Mobile Gaming Experts
- May 18-20 Nordic Game Conf at Malmö / Sweden
- 20.5.2016 Valtakunnallinen Pelitutkimuksen päivä Jyväskylän yliopistolla. Samassa yhteydessä Suomen pelitutkimuksen seuran perustamiskokous.
- GameFounders‘s Games on Tour: East-West meetup in Tallinn May 30 – June 2nd
- June 3 AEC Hackathon 3.2 Helsinki
- June 8th Game Spring Oulu releases key speaker: Chris Avellone
- Aalto EE; Game Executive September 7-14
Releases:
- Super Smash – smashing action from Tuokio out on the AppStore and Google Play!
- Iceflake Studios Oy releases the Ice Lakes on Steam and Playfield
Announcements:
- Armada Interactive grabs gaming industry attention with USD 3 million funding
- Investors want to meet developers at NG16
- Neon Chrome from 10tons among the nominated games for the prestigious yet cult-like Indie Sensation Award at the new NG16 Indie Day & Showcase.
- Supercell on track to break $3 billion barrier in 2016
Open jobs:
- RedLynx is looking for Lead Level Designer and VFX Artist for our console projects. Read more: http://www.redlynx.com/careers
- Several open positions at Remedy
- We have some great new senior programming positions open at Vulpine Games!
- Seriously is looking for Senior Tech Programmer to join Seriously’s Helsinki office. More details on LinkedIn!
Other news:
- Kumoon: Ballistic Physics Puzzle at top three in Oculus
- (only in Finnish) Pelifirmat houkuttavat Suomessa – tänne it-opiskelijat haluavat töihin
- Critical Force soft launched Critical Ops iOS version yesterday in Singapore and today the game reached positions nr. 1 (iPad all apps) and nr. 4 (iPhone all apps) on App Store rankings without any paid user acquisition.
- Finnish game designer Sami Laakso from Snowdale Design is running a successful Kickstarter campaign for his sequel to Dale of Merchants.
- Suomalainen peliosaaminen ilahduttaa
- Seriously widens Best Fiends’ UA strategy, signing up 200 lifestyle YouTubers for new influencer campaign
- LudoCraft‘s post about Funny sounds don’t usually get the center stage in sound design, Johannes tells us how auditory silliness can be incorporated into games.
- Sami Liukka posts about The natural selection of game ideas
- The Evening with Raph Koster & Next Games recorded
- Moontv.fi testaa videoiden siirtämistä facebookkiin sellaisenaan. Viime viikon Peliryhmä-jaksoksi sattui juurikin Alienation. P.S: Jos on peliprojekteja käynnissä ja haluaisitte kertoa niistä meille, niin pistäkää viestiä games@moontv.fi
- Project Long Tail screenshots
- If you or your company would be interested to 1. visit at Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub gatherings as speaker (company presentative). 2. recruit people 3. establish branch office to Jyväskylä Central Finland (with great location). Feel free to contact the chairman of Peliosuuskunta Expa (Expa Game Business co-operative) tuomas.roininen@expa.fi
- Ossi Mykkänen is looking for hobbyist co-game developers
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!