Events:
- Finnish Game Jam: 29-31.01.2016 and 700+ jammers around Finland creating 200 games in 48 hours. Would your company be interested in supporting the event?
Releases:
- Henri Kuismin has released his game Hooah! on the App Store
- Moottoripaja Racing, made by students from Nuorten Keskus ry/Moottoripaja-hanke, can be found on Google Play
- Celebrate Independence Day by playing Råtta Booris‘ handshaking @ Linna castle. The game was developed y Kuuasema in behalf of Animaatiokopla and is availble at the App store
Announcements:
- Remedy released a new cinematic trailer for Quantum Break @ The Game Awards
Open jobs:
- Rovio is looking for a Senior Game Designer to Espoo
- PlayRaven is seeking UA experts:User Acquisition Manager & User Acquisition Specialist for its Helsinki office
- Colorido is hiring a (mobile) Client Developer and a Full-stack Developer to their office in Helsinki
- Critical Force has an opening for an Unity programmer either in Kajaani Finland or in Chiang Mai Thailand
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Wired tells Supercell’s story and the search for the secret on how to make evergreen games and not just hits
- Pocket Gamer’s article on the making of The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land
- Traplight Games has received and investment of 1,3 million euros (in Finnish) (in English on Pocket Gamer)
- Startup100 ranks Finnish startups monthly based on online activity and performance: December’s highest ranking game studio is Epic Owl
- Sami Liukka’s theory on free-to-play mobile game’s monetization strategies
- Ever wonder on the educational backgrounds of game developers? This is Johann Muszynski from Umbra, a theoretical physicist
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them to the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. See the previous post.