THIS WEEK (20/2018) IN THE FINNISH GAME INDUSTRY

Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 20/2018 from the Finnish Game Industry.
News are gathered from the Play Finland group posts during the week. That is why we recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group. It also guarantees that your news will be visible in the weekly newsletter /news compilation. Play Finland is at the moment one of the main channels for sharing information inside the industry.

 
Events:

• May 18th Kompozure Tech Talks – Performant C# in game development / Helsinki
• May 19th Yläkaupungin yö Festival, Jyväskylä Game Industry showcase.
• May 21st App Annie‘s breakfast 
• May 23rd Narrative Micro-Lectures #1
• May 22nd Invest in Turku for Experience Industries – at 10:00-14:00 Kultaranta Resort, Särkänsalmentie 178, Naantali (*note: bus transportation from the Turku bus station will be provided at 9:30) Sign up here by 14th May
• May 23-25 Nordic Game Conference / Malmö, Sweden
  • IGDA members get 20% off for Nordic Game Conference 2018!!! This is how you do it:
    Hurry up, go to www.conf.nordicgame.com, push the “Register” button, check the “Organisation discount” box, choose “IGDA” from the drop down menu, and then enter the code “XJ7VnpGDsM” in the “Discount Code” box.
  • One of the biggest events this year during NGC18 will be our IGDA Nordics party!
• May 25-27th SmirnovSchool / Theme Park May Workshop / Kouvola
  • Eugene Je (Evgeniya Zherebtsova), instructor, who is going to run one of the workshops in May, have some new art on her ArtStation, go check it out.
• May 28th The Finland Unity User Group is visiting Unity Helsinki
• May 29th Game Music Collective is giving to IGDA members 20% off from VIP tickets at their TURKU gig in Logomo! It includes concert and after-party https://holvi.com/…/produ…/ff4ed93f9b634abf906c18c43cfe590f/
  Use code: IGDAVIPxGMC, for receiving 33e VIP ticket
• 2.-5. August Assembly Summer Messukeskus Helsinki 
  • Assembly ARTtech seminar
• October 19th Monetization in Games: Past, Present and Future – ft. John Romero / Helsinki

See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs:

• Virtual Frontiers has now two programming intern positions open in Kajaani. Details here
• 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

Announcements;

• Elisa has sold major share of Sulake to Orange Games

  • Elisa myy enemmistön Sulakkeesta Orange Gamesille

Other News;

• AmiGames MOOC – Pelialan avoin, ilmainen verkkokurssi.
• Näin Supercell käyttää tekoälyä Clash Royale -pelissä – Tavoitteena räätälöidä lisäostoksia houkuttelevammin
• Apple featured several  Finnish games with “Made in Finland ❤️” theme
• kirjoittajia huippusuositun Pelikasvattajan käsikirjan jatko-osaan. Suunnitellussa sisällysluettelossa on paljon pelialaa koskevia kappaleita, joihin toivotaan pelinkehittäjien asiantuntemusta. Kirjaan haetaan sekä lyhyempiä eläviä esimerkkejä, että pidempiä tietopohjaisia artikkeleita.  Artikkeliehdotukset lähetettävä 8.6. mennessä
• Project: Longtail on Square Enix Collective feedback platform
• Esa Linna PR Services tarjoaa viestintä palveluja pienille vidopeliyhtiöille
• Game Music Collectiven Lukas Stasevskij aloitti videosarjan pelimusiikista yhteistyössä Suomen pelimuseon kanssa! Ensimmäisellä videolla syväluotaus legendaariseen pokeripelin tuplausmusaan, joka on soitetuimpia suomalaisia sävelmiä yli 2 miljardilla soittokerralla.
• MindSeize trailer, a sci-fi action exploration platformer with a focus on telling a good story

• Gregory Pellechi shared his latest episode of the Writing Game

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.