Events:
Releases:
- The Master Plan by Shark Punch will be available on Steam for Early Access on Sept 15, read more here.
- One One Two by YeaBoing is now available for iOS
- Eddie the Elephant’s Runaway Rush by Decrón Studios will be available for iOS on Sept 10 (see trailer)
Announcements:
- See the trailer of Balloon Gentlemen by Silent Squire Games
- Ex-Rovio, Remedy, Guerrilla, and Digital Chocolate devs form Helsinki GameWorks
- Bad Crane released the trailer for their new game RGB Express
- Rumilus Desing will do a modern take on Snake: Snake Rewind
- Hardland by Mountain Sheep passed Steam Greenlight in just four days
- Kickstarter campaign for Battlestation by Bugbyte will start Oct 7
Open jobs:
- Colossal Order is hiring
- Shark Punch is hiring
- GPM Games is hiring
- Traplight Games is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Mikael Hed stepping down as Rovio CEO in 2015
- Read about Tekes funding for game developers (only in Finnish)
- Tiny Troopers: Alliance by Kukouri made it to the cover of Grab It -magazine
- Apply now for the Game Executive program offered by Aalto University Executive Education (Aalto EE)
- Apply now for GamePro, a recruiting training program
- Looking for funding? Horizon2020 calls for Autumn 2014 and early 2015 are open
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish games industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them to the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. See last week’s post here.