Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 47/2016 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 47/2016 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:
- 23rd-26th Nov. ReCon Blockchain developers bootcamp in Helsinki
- 25th- 27th November. Junction 2016 Helsinki
- November 28-29.2016 Nordic Brand Licensing Market Helsinki
- November 29th 3pm-6pm, China mobile game market event / meet-up in MyGamez brand new Helsinki office!
Program:
– New regulation and latest market trends, by Owen Soh, MyGamez
– China market through the eyes of Chinese game studio, by Andrew Chang, Red Atoms
– Hill Climb Racing’s journey in China by Jarkko Paalanen, Fingersoft
– What kind of localisation is required for China by Markus Leinonen, MyGamez
– Discussion and perhaps couple of beers…
We have limited seats, so please RSVP via info@mygamez.com soonest! - 30th Nov. side-event during Slush to mingle with fellow Dutchmen (and women)
- Nov 30 – Dec. 1st SLUSH Helsinki
- The Unity Group December Meetup at Futurice at December 8th
- 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:
- 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:
- Long silence from Epic Owl is about to end as we are coming out of stealth mode and start to prepare for the launch of Spaceship Battles with a little help from our friends at HeroCraft! Spaceship Battles is a sci-fi space arena that will be released on #iOS and #Android on December 1st.
#HeroCraft - Kukouri has new massively multiplayer social sandbox game Portal Worlds is now in soft launch!
- Smart Kat By Sneeweis released on iOS Appstore.
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/
- Seepia releases the official trailer of their new game Pomenia
- Critical Ops has now 10 million downloads!
Other News;
- Check out this new competition by Google Play! (Samuli Syvähoko in the Jury).
- Cast your vote on Baseball Riot on Steam Greenlight
- Ikoni Innovations want to improve the dental health of (among other groups) small children, through the means of gamification, backed up by scientific research. To further develop our business, we have started an equity funding campaign. You can find out more about us and what we do, as well as join us on our journey from the link .
- Kysely liittyen pro gradu -tutkielmaan otsikolla ”Suomalaisten indie-pelistudioiden kokemuksia sovelluskauppaoptimoinnista”
- Oululehden juttu UusiAuttaaVanhaa -tapahtumassa TurusenSahalla.
- Tekes: We got game – story of the Finnish games industry
- My Summer Car in the new EDGE magazine
- Läjä kotimaista tietokonelehtihistoriaa skannattuna. Kaikki 61 lehteä Printtiä, numerosta 1/1984 numeroon 20/1987. Archive.orgista lehdet myös PDF:nä
- The Unity Meetup group is back. December Meetup at Futurice at December 8.
- How To Vet Your Mobile App’s Success Before Launch – Eric Seufert’s Growth Summit Insights
- Secret Exit releases a simple set of stickers on the App Store you can use in iMessage to conveniently highlight the logical fallacies that you may come across.
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