Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 12/2017 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
See also our monthly logbook to see what we are doing in Neogames.
Events:
- April 11th Game Industry Breakfast by Aalto ENT / Helsinki
- April 20th: RovioCon 2017! More info and registrations on: www.rovio.com/roviocon-2017
- May 4-5th Entertainment Business Arena / Helsinki
- May 9th Games First 2017 / Helsinki
- May 17-19th Nordic Game Conference / Malmö.
- June 13th Game Industry Breakfast by Aalto ENT / 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:
- Cursor etsii tuottajahenkistä pelialan asiantuntijaa
- 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:
- Tuokio’s new game Ski Zoo is out on Android & iOS
- Lunar Collapse has made a musicvideoesque game for a band called Rorschächin Tahrat.
- Space Garbage Collector released in Android
Announcements;
- Big Bang Racing developer Traplight raises $2.7 million to create games for the Minecraft generation
- Next Games shares will start trading on the Nasdaq First North Finland list!
- Pages up for The Hive – Turku Game Hub
- Official NOMINEES for The Finnish Applied Game of the Year 2016 in alphabetical order:
– 4Active – For Kids Active by CSE Entertainment
– Augmented Climbing Wall by Valo Motion
– Big Bang Legends by Lightneer
– @DRIVE! driving simulator by CSE Simulation Oy - Juho Kuorikosken kirjoittamien pelikirjojen Mesenaatti-kamppanjat saivat joukkorahoituskampanjapalkinnon!
Other News;
- Kuntavaalityötä pelaamalla Cities: Skylinesia
- Miesluolia voi nyt kasata sopuhintaan – piispa nousee taivaisiin työhuoneensa lentosimulaattorilla. Virtuaalimaailma on jokaisen saatavilla, kun elektroniikan hinta on romahtanut ja tehoa tullut lisää. Tamperelainen emerituspiispa lentää maailmalle työhuoneestaan.
- 10tons’ Time Recoil on Steam Greenlight
- The survey study of branding in Finnish game companies called “Playing with Brands”
- Lightneer team is currently in Singapore to launch our first game Big Bang Legends.
- Mitä kunta voisi tehdä tukeakseen pelialaansa? Neogames kokosi aiheesta tiiviin paketin. Kaikenlainen palaute dokumentin sisällön kehittämiseksi on luonnollisesti enemmän kuin tervetullutta alan toimijoilta.
- Neogames February logbook
- Matchmade looks for influencers who play similar games and have the intended audience and pairs them up with developers
- Pelit-lehden ansiosta suomalaisista tuli juuri tällainen pelaajakansa: päätoimittajana 25 vuotta toiminut Tuija Lindén kertoo nyt, miten se kävi.
- Master’s thesis about the visual appearance of mobile game icons. Please fill out my survey for the study.
- VR/AR superpower Finland in the making
- Visionist (PR & marketing agency) will have media training day at The HIVE (Turku Game Hub) on the 19th of April. First 10 registered companies will get a media analysis from Visionist for free! Join now by registering here
- Ostrobothnia´s game cluster featured in local newspaper. Article only in Swedish.
- Annual CPA conference in St. Petersburg (April 12th) focused on Internet Advertising. Close to 2000 people will be there, including Co-founder of Mail.ru, Head of Applications at Yandex, Head of Sales at MyTarget, CEO of Cerebro, Product Director at Facebook in Russia and others. Check out last year’s video here: cpalife.su
- Kukouri introduces new ways to work with youtubers. Last week they reached 500 000 views on Pixels Worlds’ channel!
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