Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine weeks 38/2022 from 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:
- 26th September Making Legal Sense of the International Business of Video Games webinar
- 26th September IGDA Leadership Day 2022 / Helsinki.
- 26th September Unity September Meetup with Metacore
- 27-28 Sept. Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki: Get 20% off your tickets when you use code: PlayFinland20
- 13-14th October W Love Games: tickets for conference are available
- 15th October Academic Mindtrek Conference
- Call for contributions for the Industrial Track (XR in industry, Games and Gamification) Industry-Academy Collaboration
at the 25th International Academic Mindtrek Conference.
- Call for contributions for the Industrial Track (XR in industry, Games and Gamification) Industry-Academy Collaboration
- 19-22 Oct. Gamescom Asia/Singapore
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W Love Games announce the partnership with gamescom asia and offers community members exclusive tickets discount! Register with exclusive code to enjoy 10% off conference tickets or join as a trade visitor for FREE. Early bird registrations end on 24 September 2022.
- Join to Nordic booth on Gamescom Asia. Book your place now before they are all gone! Email nicole.cham@business-sweden.se to register your interest. You will receive more details on how you can be a part of this. https://gamescom.asia/
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- 26-28th October Games Job Fair Autumn 22
- 1-30th November Free City of Games / Kouvola: Idea call/applying until 1st of October.
- 3rd-4th November Game Connection Europe / Paris
- 17th-18th Slush Helsinki
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- SciPlay Finland is looking for Game Designer (Content & Gameplay) Location either Oulu or Helsinki area, Finland.
- Redhill Games (headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a small office in Nicosia, Cyprus).
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Lead 3C Designer Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Lead Animator Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Lead Character Artist Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia UI Programmer Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Level Designer Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Environment Artist Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Lighting Artist Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Technical Artist Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Technical Designer / Scripter Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia VFX Artist Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia Gameplay Programmer (Mid/Sr) Relocate Helsinki, Nicosia 
The vacancies are posted by Redhill Games on InGame Job, a portal with all game development vacancies. The response from the links goes directly to the representatives of the company
- game writer and narrative designer. CV here.
- 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.com. Additionally, 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, so that they reach out to the talent for their consent. In your email please specify the project and/or position you are hiring for. A job description would be ideal.
- Take a look at https://thehub.fi/jobs for the current list of all jobs available in the Finnish Game Industry!
- Uratarinoita, erilaisista ihmisistä / mostly in Finnish, but few different career stories in English too
Other News- VR company MeKiwi, from Oulu has released the most expensive Finnish VR game. (Article in Finnish)
- Are you looking for an office in the capital of Helsinki? Maria 01 and Arcade 5 currently have offices becoming available. (Already from 1.10.2022) The offices vary in size from 30-380m2, if you wish to be close to the gaming & startup community, then this is the place where to be. Please DM Roland Kazlauskas, if this is something of an interest
- Epic partnering up with Slipgate Ironworks, Redhill Games, and Makea Games to review applicants’ at programming challenge in a panel at Games Job Fair Autumn 2022 | October 26-28.
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White Hell released a trailer for the latest content patch. There’s guns, beer and Kalevala. The game is on steam and there’s links to it in the video describ
- The Game Industry continues to grow, but not by itself – Business Finland