Weekly News 2/22

Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter

In this report we will combine week 2/2022from 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:

  • 28-30 Jan 2022 Global Game Jam Now its the time to apply own site. In Person, Online-only, and Hybrid sites too are accepted this year, so there will be something for everyone!
  • 27-29th April Games Job Fair

See also The Game Industry Events calendar 📆 Game Conference Guide Calendar 📆Flemish Game association calendar

  • Kim Soares is looking for their new gamedev company (that still in a stealth mode) an experienced concept artist (environments and/or characters). Ping Kim in comments or dm if you are interested or know someone suitable!
  • 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.comTake a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
💖 New releases 🤩
💬 Discussion
  • Tim Spaninks asks from Level Designers, what’s the process of planning environments? The video talks about using Bubble Diagrams to get an early sense of spacial relationships, content and flow in your level.
  • Nicolae Berbece introduces ” Heyoo, I’m Nick and aside from having developed Move or Die, I make videos about game design over here I recently moved to Helsinki and I’m curious how the gamedev scene looks here and hopefully make some friends in the process ❤
📃 Other News