TagsWeekly News,
This week’s roundup highlights news from the past week in the Finnish Game Industry. In the future, this bulletin is again posted every Friday afternoon. You can find past weekly roundup 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
💎 Highlights:
- Finnish Game Awards winners are;
- Finnish Game of the Year 2023: Alan Wake 2 / Remedy Entertainment
- Best Creative Achievement of the Year 2023: Road to Vostok
- Rookie of the Year 2023: Notovia
- Power Player of the Year 2023: Natasha Skult
- IGDA Volunteer of the Year 2023 (IGDA Finland): Nova Salmivaara
- Bit1 Game Award 2024, Bit1-kilpailun voittaja: Team Pendulo / Oddli
- Jampion of the Year 2023 (Finnish Game Jam): Laura Piispanen
- W Love Games Excellence Award 2023 (W Love Games): Afterdream by Jesse Makkonen
stream: https://youtube.com/live/-Qw7h_lGtRkf
- Angry Birds lands on Google Play for cars with Google built-in
- Finland’s Gorilla Capital invests in Lola Panda, an edtech solution for children
- Stumble Guys dev Kitka Games soft-launches new mobile title Battle Guys: Royale
Finnish Game Industry News
- DigiDemo decisions has been made. Congratulations for those who got one! New application time opens at 20th May.
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Finnish Game Week is a week-long series of #gameindustryevents in Helsinki, featuring Leadership Day by IGDA Finland, #PGCHelsinki, and W Love Games conference. All three conferences are strategically located, so you can easily attend all of them in between 30.09 to 04.10.2024.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- “Merge Mansion is a very young game. We still have big plans and many surprising twists in store” Metacore’s CBO Tapio Tuomola on four years of success for Merge Mansion and what’s coming next
- Supercell’s upcoming global launch of Squad Busters has just passed its 30m total pre registrations target way ahead of schedule
- New demo released by Korppi Games
- ‘If Roblox and TikTok had a baby’: Supercell-backed HypeHype edges closer to launch
💰 Funding
- IGDA Finland Grant accepts applications, submit yours by May 31st.
- DigiDemo new application time opens at 20th May.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
Discussion
- Kim Kupiainen; Asks a question on behalf of the newcomers in the industry/those who want to study from bachelor to masters degree. See the poll at fb.
Upcoming Events
- 21-24th May Nordic Game Conference @ Malmö, Sweden
- 22th May at 6PM CEST [GMT +2] “How do you turn ideas into reality?” IceBreakers Game Dev collaborative organizes chat with Concept Artists working in the Nordics and learn more about how they bring dreamscapes to life!
Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/icebreakersgamedevPrevious episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@icebreakersgamedev4399/videos
- 28th May Peliosuuskunta Expa / IGDA Finland Jyväskylä Hub Meetup
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Guest: Amin Bakht, Head of User Acquisition at Phoenix GamesTopic: Automation in User Acquisition & Time: 18:00
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- 30th May – 2nd June; CROSSING LATITUDES 2024 /Brazil – Finland Game Jam. W Love Games and Finnish Game Jam associations in collaboration with Embassy of Brazil in Helsinki are organizing
- 4th June; Game Studies day / Turku
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz