Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 40/2016 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 40/2016 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:
- 7-10 October Larp Event: Price of Inspiration, /Tammela
- Oct. 14.-16 Games for Health Finland / Health Game Jam
- 15th Oct. Gyostage IIIII -luentokokonaisuus ”Pelimaailman lumovoiman kasvattajan, pelinkehittäjän ja ammattilaisen näkökulmasta” in Kuopio
- 19th Oct. Digimediapäivä + virtual reality event / Helsinki
- 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/
- 14th of Nov. IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub is organizing “The Concept of Art in Games” Exhibition @ Jyväskylä City Library.
- 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
- 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:
- Several open positions:
- Reforged Studios is looking for Senior Game Programmer
- Next Games is looking for People Operations Director
- 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:
- Kyy Games / Cabals: Card Blitz is now on Steam Greenlight.
- Rusto’s Spareware is coming out on Steam 10th of October
- Piranh.io is featured on App Store and Google Play so go grab it and play on the go!
Prodigium Game Studios releases Willy The Striker in Anrdoid & iOS - Shadow Bug Rush is alive! It’s FREE! Go get it on Google Play and App Store
- Firetail Games published Trippy Viking is globally on Android & iOS
- Mushroom Crusher Extreme in STEAM Early Access launch
- Constellation Distantia in alpha
Announcements;
- “Ocmo”, created by Team Ocmo is the winner of the Nordic Game Discovery Contest at the Northern Game Summit in Kajaani, Finland.
- The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land in one year old! Time flies when you’re having fun. Go party with walkers
- Finnish start-up Snowfall raises €1 million to bring Moomin mobile games to Asia / Turkulainen Muumi-mobiilipeliyhtiö sai miljoonarahoituksen
Other News;
- Peter Vesterbacka haluaa yhdistää maailman parhaan koulutuksen ja menestyspelit
- (Only in Finnish) Pelimaailman huiput kohtaavat tuoppi kourassa – verkostoituminen halutaan helpoksi
- Chinese company HeiVR is looking for partners to build up VR projects in Europe
- (Only in Finnish) David Helgason: “Kaikkien pitäisi oppia Piilaakson tavat tehdä liiketoimintaa“
- Finland Conquers The Game World – What’s Next For Indie Studios?
- (Only in Finnish) Ensimmäiset mikrokopterien SM-kisat järjestetään Hämeenlinnassa
- Sounds a lot like game development / Fysiikan Nobel-voittaja Ylelle: “Enimmäkseen vain istun ja yritän selvittää onko missään mitään järkeä”
- Jaakko’s Reviews > Praedor – Käärmetanssija
- Vector graphics avatars of different people needed in building games. Download the files here. (ODG) and (PDF). The license is very permissive CC BY-SA 2.0 (Attribution-ShareAlike).
- Game Research Lab is having crowdfunding survey
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!