Events:
- Meet Nordic studios at Game Connection, Paris on Oct 29-31
- DigiExpo is organised in Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre on Nov 1-3. DigiExpo presents extensively all about gaming, photography and other consumer home electronics.
- Digimediapäivä (Digital media day) by Teleforum will be on Nov 5 in Helsinki
- Gamedu will be held on Nov 20-21 in Kouvola
Releases:
- Splot by Frozenbyte was released on Oct 23 on AppStore
- Javelin Masters 2 was released on AppStore, Google Play and Windows Phone Store
- Pako by Tree Men Games was released also for Android
- Hardland by Mountain Sheep was released on Steam Early Access
- Plane Fun by SnowGrains is available for iOS and Android
Announcements:
Open jobs:
- Boomlagoon is hiring
- Small Giant Games is hiring
- Redlynx is hiring
- Gigglebug is hiring
- See more open jobs at Games Jobs Finland
Other news:
- Finnish game industry associations condemn recent online harassment in global game community
- Frozenbyte’s Trine series has surpassed over 7 million sales
- Small Giant Games receives $3,1 million investment
- SuperLineRush crossed the 100k milestone, it has been downloaded over 100 000 times
- Aksel Junkkila from Bugbyte wrote a Kickstarter campaing guide
- From Earth launched its Steam Greenlight campaign
- By Hand Production is looking for game developers to develop educational games about sex
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.