Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 5/2020 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.
We (admins) occasionally publish industry related posts or links in Play Finland. But since there is so many things going on, we don´t even try to cover the whole field.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 7th of February Grand opening of Digi & Game Center / Jyväskylä
- 8th February, Game Business Booster 2020 / Jyväskylä
- Calling for publishers & investors in Game Industry!
- 12th February The Finland Unity User Group is visiting Next Games / Helsinki
- 12th February Intro to Games UR/UX / Helsinki
- 27th February Japan Games Market – Best Practices; How to enter & what to consider? / Helsinki
- Check also the latest study regarding to China, Japan and South-Korean games market
- 3rd of March Game Audio Awards 2020
- 5th March AWE Nite Helsinki: XR Game Night
- 16.-17th March Game Connection America
- 18-22nd March; GDC | Game Developers Conference / San Francisco
- April 1st Games First / London.
- The first three speakers announced
- 14th April Hyper UA Gamevasion / Copenhagen
- 14.-15th April Bit1 / Helsinki
- 27-29th May Nordic Game 2020 / Malmö, Sweden
- 16 October W Love Games conference / Helsinki
- 6th of November #XmasJKL 2020 – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar / Jyväskylä
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs & Recruitment
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- Fingersoft have multiple interesting job opportunities in Oulu and Helsinki. Currently they are looking for i.a. Game Artists, Marketing Artists and C++ Programmers!
- Double Star is looking for a Game Designer and a 3D Game Artist as we scale to build our first game into a success!
- 10th Muse is looking for a junior programming intern! send an open application to company@10thmuse.net.
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GamePro is here for the 10th time! Over 200 people have found their way to the Finnish gaming industry through the recruiting training program. Whether you are a company representative looking to grow your teams or a job seeker finding a position in gaming this might be for you! Further questions & inquires can be directed toTommi Ohtonen / tommi.ohtonen@saranen.fi p. 050 477 8959 AND Kasper Kuusela / kasper.kuusela@saranen.fi p. 050 313 5665
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BusinessFinland has launched a nationwide job board to advertise jobs for #English speakers in #Finland. Advertising the open positions in the portal is free of charge for the companies.
- Games Factory Talents launched new Games focused tech Talent board that helps Talents to land a Dream job at a Games Studio in Helsinki. Please check the positions and companies and APPLY
- Pocket hunt has launched their recruiting app for games people in Finland, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Benelux countries, Bangalore and Singapore.
- Jobs in Games: Rovio’s Heini Kaihu on how to get a job as head of studio.
- if people are interested in taking part in ‘Jobs in Games’ series feel free to get in touch with Craig Chapple!
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
Competitions;
- 31st of Jan is the last day to submit your application to Game Audio Awards 2020
- A celebration of the creativity and innovation of indie games from several European countries @ Warsaw on 25 April 2020 – a chance to win $100K in SuperScale services.
- Pelialan opinnäytekilpailu 2020 on avattu! DL: 29.2.2020 / Game Studies Thesis Competition 2020 is open! DL: 29.2.2020
- Bit1 Helsinki confirmed judges for the student game competition;
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
Sonja Ängeslevä, Product Lead of Zynga
Juha Huhtakallio, General Manager of PlayStack Finland
Karoliina Korppoo, CEO of 10th Muse
Teemu Närhi, Senile Senior of Fingersoft - The best Finnish student game is searched by the national game competition Bit1. The preliminaries, PreBits, are held in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Kajaani in the beginning of March. Application period is between 13.1.-26.2.2020.
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
Funding:
Releases;
- Barracuda Disaster released Solar Panic on Steam
- Neogames is conducting list of Finnish (commercial) games released globally (and for first time) on 2019. Make sure that your games are listed! Please contact via email: suviATneogamesDOTfi, if there is somethin missing and help to correct mistakes. Thanks in advance! Games are listed in alphabetical order by company names.
Other News;
- Iron Danger will be released March 25th at STEAM
- Bit1 Helsinki confirmed judges for the student game competition;
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
Sonja Ängeslevä, Product Lead of Zynga
Juha Huhtakallio, General Manager of PlayStack Finland
Karoliina Korppoo, CEO of 10th Muse
Teemu Närhi, Senile Senior of Fingersoft - The best Finnish student game is searched by the national game competition Bit1. The preliminaries, PreBits, are held in Helsinki, Tampere, Turku and Kajaani in the beginning of March. Application period is between 13.1.-26.2.2020.
- Timur Haussila, Game Lead of Supercell
- The new, fully-booked Digi & Game Center will celebrate its Grand Opening in Jyväskylä on 7 February 2020
- Veikkaus teki kilpailuttamatta kymmenien miljoonien sopimuksen ulkomaisen peliyhtiön kanssa – 20 vuoden sopimus salattiin valvojiltaSopimus koskee Veikkauksen keskuspelijärjestelmää, jossa toimii esimerkiksi Lotto.
- Ahoy recruiting games studios from Finland! Games Factory Talent have received multiple applications from very talented game developers who are willing to come to work to Finland to help you build great games! Please check out their #TalentBoard and reach out to Oleg Paliy for details!
- Leading (Finnish) Game Companies – Games Now! lecture series Live steam; Tero Virtala (Remedy Entertainment) Mariina Hallikainen (Colossal Order) Jami Laes (Futureplay Games)
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GamePro is here for the 10th time! Over 200 people have found their way to the Finnish gaming industry through the recruiting training program. Whether you are a company representative looking to grow your teams or a job seeker finding a position in gaming this might be for you! Further questions & inquires can be directed toTommi Ohtonen / tommi.ohtonen@saranen.fi p. 050 477 8959 AND Kasper Kuusela / kasper.kuusela@saranen.fi p. 050 313 5665
- Neogames is offering a package to Game Connection America DL is 3rd of FEB.
- EGD 044: Game Entrepreneur’s Journey with Teemu Mäki-Patola, COO & CMO of Frogmind
- PEGI is raising the current criterion for ‘simulated gambling’ from PEGI 12 to PEGI 18. The criterion applies to games that teach or glamorise gambling as it can be played for real money in casinos and betting halls. As a result, a grace period of six months will start today, to allow companies to make the necessary changes (i.e. removing all simulated gambling) if they prefer to avoid a PEGI 18 rating for any nearly-finished game they are about to release this year.
- Video about all of Part Time Monkey’s unpublished games and prototypes from 2015 to 2019!
- Tammikuun yhteishaku on päättynyt – kovassa nosteessa oleva peliala näkyy myös JAMKissa suosituimpien joukossa
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.