Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 37/2018 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.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 14th Sept. Demo Day at Games Factory / Helsinki
- 17th September. Games Now! lecture series will start again
- 18th September. FullXP: Customer support & Community Management with Ana & Paula
- September 27th The Finland Unity User Group is visiting Next Games
- Oct 4-5th Northern Game Summit – NGS / Kajaani
- 10% discount code for all the nice people of Play Finland with code: NGS18PLAY
- 12-14th Oct. Dash team is organising Europe´s biggest design hackathon in Helsinki Kattilahalli.
- Eight amazing design challenges to solve from our partners also including a Game Design challenge from EA games. APPLY NOW! (the application period closes on Sunday 16th of September) More info
- 18th Oct. Gaming and esports event, Grail Quest – Pelifestari 2018 / Turku
- October 19th Monetization in Games: Past, Present and Future – ft. John Romero / Helsinki
- 24th-26th October, Join Neogames and the Nordics at Game Connection Europe / Paris
- 10-11th November. Theme Park. Digital art rally 2018 / Kouvola
- 14th Nov. Xmasjkl – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar / Jyväskylä
- 19-23 November 2018, Nanjing: IMGA Judging Sessions, China Game Design Seminar and the Awards Ceremony & Parties
- 22-24th May Nordic Game Conference
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs:
- PlayStack is looking for senior 3D artist and games producer
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
- Get your self matched. Find your place in the Finnish Games Industry
Releases;
- Platonic Partnership Ltd‘s Lydia is out for iOS and Android (published by Alko)
- Kuuasema’s newest game Bike Unchained 2 is now out globally on iOS and Android + currently featured in 100 stores by Apple.
- Please Be Patient released Gates of Horn and Ivory on STEAM
Announcements;
- Nyt viranomaiset joutuvat ottamaan loot boxeihin kantaa myös Suomessa: “Lainvastaisista arpajaisista on puolestaan kyse tapauksissa, jotka täyttävät neljä ehtoa:
- 1. loot boxin avaaminen voidaan tehdä kokonaan tai osittain maksamalla muulla kuin pelaamalla hankitulla pelin sisäisellä valuutalla; 2. pelaaja ei ennalta tiedä loot boxin sisältöä; 3. loot boxeista saatavia tavaroita voidaan vaihtaa rahaksi joko videopelin julkaisijan omilla tai kolmansien tahojen ylläpitämillä kauppapaikoilla; JA 4. videopelin julkaisijalla tai muulla toimijalla ei ole arpajaislain mukaisia edellytyksiä tavara-arpajaisluvan saamiseen (käytännössä videopelin julkaisija tai muu kaupallinen yhteisö ei voi saada tavaraarpajaislupaa).
- UK publisher PlayStack acquires Finnish developer Hisome
- Suomalaista Alan Wakea käännetään televisiosarjaksi & Peter Calloway to Adapt ‘Alan Wake’ for Television
Other News;
- Jani Kahrama is opening a discussion on how Finnish Game Devs as active members of a high-visibility industry can have environmental influence? Just a couple of ideas:
- 1) Request your hosting service providers to run your nodes with renewable energy.2) Reduce non-essential biz dev air-travel.3) Buy company hoodies from a manufacturer that uses recycled materials.I expect #1 to be of some consequence if it were to gain widespread adoption. Properly publicized, it might even set a positive example.
- Samuli at Yle’s KulttuuriCocktail sharing his view on jamming. Soon 100 games!
- 4th Best Fiends animated short is out today! Mark Hamill, Kate Walsh, Pamela Adlon, David Herman and Maurice LaMarche returning to lending their voices to “Baby Slug’s Big Day Out.”
- Vapise Fortnite! – Suomalainen peliyhtiö tähtää superkuumaan markkinaan Battlelands Royale -pelillä
- Next week is TOKYO GAME SHOW and Snowfall Ltd. will have a big booth with our Moomin games and local partners from Japan, so if any gamedevs are attending come and say hi! Also Snowfall Ltd. will have networking event with Embassy of Finland, Business Finland and Finnish Institute in Tokyo together with Apprien pm Natasha Bulatovic Trygg if you wish to join.
- Suomalaista pelialaa rakastava brittikonkari uskoo uusien peliyhtiöiden läpimurtoon: “Työ ei ole valmis”
- 15 minute tour of STONE. Best news is it’s out NEXT WEEK for PC and Mac.
- Kiinan pelimarkkina houkuttaa edelleen – “Nyt haetaan tulevaisuuden positiota”
- Indie game developers need to populate the game media
- Peliyrittäjä Markus Syrjänen ei anna sairauksien vaikuttaa – “mulla on aina kuppi puoliksi täysi”
- (in Finnish) Käyttääkö yrityksenne pelinkehityksessään hyväkseen historiaa, tarinoita, taidetta tai olisitteko kiinnostuneita näistä? Vastaa lyhyeen kyselyyn, jolla kartoitetaan kiinnostusta ja edellytyksiä yhteistyöhön museoiden kanssa. Samalla voit halutessasi jättää yhteystietosi yhteistyöstä kiinnostuneiden museoiden käyttöön. Voit vastata kyselyyn, vaikka et olisi kiinnostunut yhteistyöstä. Kysely on osa Suomen museoliiton ja Kajaanin ammattikorkeakoulun Tarinat peliin ESR-hanketta.
- See the awesome speakers in NGS
- Bandimal’s animals make music fun for kids
- Suvi Kiviniemi is Head of Farm League at Games Factory & Game Business Mentor at Metropolia, doing anything and everything in my power to help young game companies succeed.
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.