Due to Easter holidays, this week’s roundup highlights news from the past two weeks in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundups here.
News are gathered from various industry sources and the Play Finland group posts during the week. Post your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group to get a chance to be included in the weekly roundup!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Neogames News
- Our event about game studio funding #GetFunded24 is approaching! Onsite tickets are sold out but mark your calendars for 16th April and join us at the live stream on YouTube
- EGDF takes a stand to condemn recent online harassment of game developers: “EGDF supports game developers’ right to artistic and creative freedom and defends their right to make independent choices about game design and content against censorship and any form of pressure or intimidation, including online harassment.”
- Neogames’ Suvi Latva participates in a panel discussion titled “What if N-Gage had succeeded — what would the Finnish game industry look like now?” at the Nokia N-Gage exhibition event day in Tampere’s Vapriikki Museum Centre on April 17th. Event is in Finnish.
Finnish Game Industry News
- In Finland, the creative industries’ economy grew by €1 billion from 2021 to 2022. Gaming and entertainment electronics (€3.9 Billion) lead as the largest sector in Finland’s creative industry.
- Peliosuuskunta Expa – Digi & Game Center with FireFrame and Epic Games are setting up Finland’s first Unreal Authorized Training Center and gathers knowledge of the current status of Unreal use from Finnish companies and associations. Fill in the questionnaire to help!
- Deadline for teams to register for Bit1, a gamedev competition for game developer students in Finnish secondary and higher education is approaching: submissions are due 14th April. The winning team is awarded at the Finnish Game Awards.
- Natasha Skult join this year’s judges for Indie Arena Booth at #Gamescom2024 – submissions are due April 21st!
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Nitro Games has greenlighted Autogun Heroes to live phase and transferred the title to Supersonic for publishing
- Rovio shares strategy towards neuroinclusion at the studio
- One Trick Entertainment, creator of Lempo, launches demo of new title, speedrunning platformer Sunday Run on Steam
- Supermoves gets a major update
- Mobilegamer.biz’s list of hot soft launch titles includes games by Ubisoft Redlynx, HypeHype, Fingersoft Metacore and Rovio among others
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
- Finnish public broadcats company YLE experiments with a new type of content: live streaming games!
- YLE News reports from Finnish games showcase in LA at GDC
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo’s concept grant application period ends TODAY on 5th April 2024 at 16:00.
- IGDA Finland Grant accepts applications, submit yours by May 31st.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Turku AMK is looking for a Unity developer
- Two weeks to Game Jobs Fair! The event will take place on 18-19th April, day #1 is an online event while day #2 is onsite @ Helsinki.
- For applicants: View latest open positions in the Finnish Game Industry at Gamejobs.fi and The Hub
- For recruiters: 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.
Upcoming Events
- 16th April Get Funded! event by Neogames Finland
- 18-19th April Game Jobs Fair Day #1 online, day #2 onsite @ Helsinki
- 22-24th April Reboot Blue @ Dubrovnik, Croatia
- 22-23th April GAconf @ London, UK & hybrid
- 19-21th May Digital Dragons @ Krakow, Poland
- 21-24th May Nordic Game Conference @ Malmö, Sweden
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz