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The big highlight this week – and for the year – is The Finnish Game Industry Report 2024, now officially released by Neogames Finland. Finnish developers, true to form, keep putting out solid rock titles: Phantom Gamelabs’ Riftbusters has now launched globally. Patch notes to our newsletter include items from earlier this summer, with new releases and games climbing the Steam wishlist. Next week is also the deadline for CreaDemo and DigiDemo demo grants. Please note that nominations remain open to spotlight heroic women and non-binary professionals making a remarkable impact at the game industry across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.
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💡 Highlights
📣Neogames Dones & News
- Neogames Finland is part of the Gamebadges project, which has published a game industry competence map to help students design their own learning paths and to support trainers and educational institutions in course development.
- Neogames Finland has officially released the Finnish Game Industry report 2024
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Antti Tiihonen shares his approach of doing retro-but-actually-modern visuals at GodotFest
- More than 50 space games were made at the Spaceship Game Jam organized by Finnish Game Jam (FGJ) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Games can be played at Ithcio
- 2025 IGDA Finland Grant goes to DIRGA and their game THYSIASTERY!
- The Finnish Game Industry QA Meetup Group is having their first event on 30th of September.
- Nominations still open for women and non-binary professionals making an impact in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, or Sweden.
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- SYBO has partnered with Supercell for a dual-game crossover event between Subway Surfers and Brawl Stars.
- Full Motion Voyeur will be released next year by Ten Thousand Hearts
- Vaki Games introduces their upcoming project: Kaukopartio
- Amber Games is partnering with Redhill Games
- Rovio talks optimised ad placements, player segmentation and Beacon
😍 NEW Finnish games released
- Riftbusters by Phantom Gamelabs is released globally on iOS and Android
- Squishmallows Match (by East Side Games Group (ESGG), in collaboration with Jazwares and Zaibatsu Interactive) is released on the App Store and Google Play.
- Vaki Games released (on July) VR game Quantum Threshold on Steam and Meta Quest.
- Rovio released Angry Birds Bounce on Apple Arcade (on July)
- More Finnish Games on wishlist at Steam
- Reconfigure by Hapatus
- Paradigm Island by End-all Entertainment
- Longtail!! by Hologram Monster
- Desert Race Adventures published by Black Smoke Studios and developped by Firedrake
- Roguebound Pirates by Redbeak Games
💰 Funding
- The application period for CreaDemo and DigiDemo demo grants is open 20.5.–8.9.2025
- Call for Game Startups to apply for funding by 14.9.2025! Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) is now looking for startups in the game sector.
- Criteria for applying:
1. Scalable business model ie. grow beyond just “one game at a time.”
2. Global mindset
3. Stage: Preferably Seed stage (Seed = first revenues and growth).
4. Already seeing recurring revenue or early loyal players/customers.
- Criteria for applying:
- Finnish (+ Europe’s largest) Wave Ventures unveils €7M fund to invest in Gen Z founders across the Nordics and Baltics
- Supercell calls on companies to reach for potential partnerships on new website
- EIT Culture & Creativity is launching its three first calls of funding on 2025! If you’re working in games have a look.
- Business Finland: R&D funding for boosting business in the creative industries.
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Play Ventures Job Board
- Rovio offers now opportunities for job seekers to sign up for job alerts.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 9th IGDA Helsinki September Meetup
- 15th September Tampere Game Hub presents Gaming Legal Summit with Lexia
- 17-19th September Northern Game Summit / Kajaani
- 30th September Finnish Game Industry QA Meetup
- 6th-10th October Finnish Games Week 2025.
- 18th-19th October Kuopio Pelaa -pelikulttuuritapahtuma.
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)
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 from Weekly roundup section.
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