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Assembly Summer game event is currently underway, showcasing fascinating lectures, games, and game demos. How are we doing at The Finnish Game Industry? Pocket Gamer interviewed Finnish developers and executives to find out. Excitingly, Barotrauma by FakeFish has topped GameRant’s lists for Best Survival Game (that lacks base-building mechanics) and Best Game Set Around Jupiter.
💎Highlights
- How do we do at The Finnish Game Industry? Pocket Gamer interviewed Finnish developers and executives.
- Barotrauma (by FakeFish) is number one on Best survival game (that lack base building mechanics) and also first on “Best Game Set Around Jupiter” lists by GameRant
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📰 Game Industry News
- Fabulous fringe events this October at PG Connects Helsinki: The games industry conference Pocket Gamer Connects returns to the heartland of mobile gaming that is Helsinki, Finland this October 1st and 2nd. The two-day event will form the core of the week-long Finnish Games Week that also includes the IGDA Finland Leadership Day.
- At the Assembly Summer 2024 event, 12 games created by different indie developers are showcased. Now, there’s an opportunity to play these games.
- Thoughts about launching and scaling by Metacore
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- The first big update to Play on Ray gaming browser, by Ray Browser Released!
- Rovio Continues Angry Birds’ 15th Anniversary Celebration by Partnering with Rocketship Entertainment for New Middle Grade Graphic Novels and Young Readers Comics
- Squad Busters takings pass $50 million, but how does it compare to Supercell’s greatest hits?
🇫🇮 Articles in Finnish
💰 Funding
- DigiDemo application period for demo grants is open until 6 September
- 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
🛸 Miscellaneous
- Finnish Game Industry has lot of international people. Juho Juhantalo invites all including Finns and expats to get familiar with Finnish National game Pesäpallo (almost like baseball) coming game on 4th August will be played in English.
👉 Upcoming Events
- 1st-4th August ASM Game Jam / Assembly
- 1st-4th seminars at Assembly Summer 2024
- 13th IGDA Helsinki Meetup
- 16-21th August Protokoli
- 18-20th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September – 4th October: Finnish Games Week
- 30th September IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2024
- 1st-3rd October; Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki 2024
- discount code: PlayFinland20
- Be a speaker at Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki this October? Submit your talk here
- 3rd October W Love Games Conference 2024
- 30th October Games First Helsinki
See also following calendars:
- The Game Industry Events calendar (mostly relevant for Finnish Game industry)
- Game Conference Guide Calendar (more international (powered by EGDF and Slovakian games association)
- Flemish Game association calendar
- Game Industry Biz
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 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