Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 46/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
In this report we will combine the week 46/2016 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
Neogames’ latest report on the Finnish game industry 2015 & China Mobile Games Report
Events:
- 18th to 20th of November Game Jam in Tampere! Sponsored by RAY!
- 18th of Nov. XmasJKL 2016 Game Industry seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland – Early Birds are ON! Get your tickets FAST to great game dev seminar at Jyväskylä, Finland 18th of Nov 2016 with great line up of speakers and people from the Game Industry. Early Birds are ON!
- 23rd-26th Nov. ReCon Blockchain developers bootcamp in Helsinki
- 25th- 27th November. Junction 2016 Helsinki
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
- 30th Nov. side-event during Slush to mingle with fellow Dutchmen (and women)
- Nov 30 – Dec. 1st SLUSH Helsinki
- Oct 11, 2017. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar/
Open jobs:
- Yousician is hiring! We have a lot of open positions, more details here: http://company.yousician.com/
- Jobs in mobile games from the PocketGamer.biz Jobs Board
- 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
Releases:
- Hot Doggety! also on iOS
- Pocket Combat – a Real-Time Multiplayer Shooter for Mobile, available on Google Play Early Access.
Announcements;
- Neogames Finland is updating the Finnish Game company lists, inform us if you are not in the list http://www.neogames.fi/en/industry-info/operators/
- Does your company work on VR? FIVR – Finnish Virtual Reality have a list of Finnish gaming studios doing this, but likely many of you have stayed undercover. If yes, is it mobile or vive/oculus?
- Hill Climb Racing 2 will launch worldwide on Nov. 28 on Google Play and in December on Apple App Store.
- Pro Gradu kyselytutkimus: “Suomalaisten indie-pelistudioiden kokemuksia sovelluskauppaoptimoinnista”
Other News;
- Kiemura’s F-Zero/Wipeout-esque arcade racer Hovercrash was featured on TouchArcade!
- Little Knight Arthur, Finnish Game Awards Sensation of the Year 2015 recharged and playable @ #XmasJKL
- Could Critical Ops become a major mobile esports game?
- 10tons has opened a Sketchfab account to share some stuff we’re working on.
- Really simple guide to setting up your game’s UA strategy from scratch
- Peliviikko 14-20.11: Tänä vuonna EHYT ry haastaa kaikki pelaamaan paremmin. Kyse ei ole ainoastaan teknisistä taidoista, vaan laajemmasta kokonaisuudesta, jossa pelaaminen lisää sekä pelaajan että ympäristön hyvää mieltä ja hyvinvointia. Hyvä pelikäytös, muiden huomioiminen ja itsestä huolehtiminen tekevät sinusta paremman pelaajan.
- Develop November magazine has a feature on Dreamloop Games.
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