Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 03/2023 from the Finnish Game Industry and will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out the previous post here.
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.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 23rd January Games Now Event Day #2: Amazing Game Art
- 23-24th January Pocket Gamer Connects London
- use the code PlayFinland20 for 20% off tickets.
- 3rd-5th February 2023 Finnish Game Jam 2023
- jammer registrations are open!
- If you have any questions about a specific site, please contact the email mentioned on each site’s own Eventbrite page. For more general questions about Finnish Game Jam or Global Game Jam, you can contact finnishgamejam (@) gmail.com
- Arcade5 calling jammers! Arcade5 calling jammers; hosting onsite & offline site FGJ YAHAHA as a part of GGJ
- Next Games will host a jam site for Global Game Jam! You are warmly welcome to come jam!
- IGDA Finland Rovaniemi Hub hosts Global Game Jam 2023 at Rovaniemi
- 9th February: Get Funded / Arcade 5 Helsinki & Online
- 13th February; Chris Zukowski: How To Market A Game on Steam. Event is organized by Living Game Intelligence Network
- 10th March Game Audio Awards.
- Submissions are now open by January 31st
- 18 – 21 April 2023 GamiFIN Conference. The call for papers is now open! Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2022
- 8th June Games First Helsinki. Click this link
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- Is your studio hiring and/or looking for good visibility among #gamedev talent this spring? Games Job Fair Spring 2023 is the Online & Onsite in Helsinki games industry event for you!
- If you are looking for talented games industry professionals for short- or long-term hire – please check out the anonymous GameDevTalents board with screened and pre-interviewed talents ranging from mid to senior levels of experience and open to career opportunities. Feel free to reach out for details! And if you are Talent working in games industry or willing to join the Finnish games industry, feel free to apply https://gamedevtalents.com. Additionally, here is an anonymous list of talents who joined our Games Job Fair event and are open to career opportunities. If you want to see someone’s full profile, please feel free to reach out with the Contact button, so that they reach out to the talent for their consent. In your email please specify the project and/or position you are hiring for. A job description would be ideal.
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
- Uratarinoita, erilaisista ihmisistä / mostly in Finnish, but few different career stories in English too
💸 Funding
- Creative Europe: support programme for Europe’s cultural and creative sectors 2021-2027. Deadline for applications is on 1st March.
💖 New releases 🤩
- Subsolar Entertainment: Exciting times, Avernus is available on the 20th
- Finnish Army Simulator is released at Steam
Discussion-
Kimmo Halonen is asking for an advice for 3D model mesh collider
Other News
- Arcade5 calling jammers! Arcade5 calling jammers; hosting onsite & offline site FGJ YAHAHA as a part of GGJ
- This site is also looking for few volunteers to help around during the event – is it you? Contact us at iida@helsinkigamescapital.fi
- Helsinki XR Center first XR accelerator program is coming next month!
The program duration is nine weeks, and it is designed for Finnish XR startups in the go-to-market stage. Deadline for applications is already on January 31st, so if you (or someone you know) has a VR/AR/MR related startup suitable for the program, be quick and apply now! - 1-bit puzzle/shooter/platformer-hybrid in vein of Wolfenstein 3D(??) about vampire who has lost their teeth for Ludum Dare 52. Check it out and vote Finland to the win.
- Games Industry Biz; Six reasons why 2023 will be huge for video games (and six reasons why it won’t)
- Submit your game to the Game Audio Awards by January 31st
- Solip’s Comic released a new episode “ready to check your tax declaration”
- Kim Soares; Digital asset trading: The untapped multi-billion market within videogames