Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine weeks 39/2022 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:
- 3rd October Expa / IGDA Jyväskylä Hub Meetup
- 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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- 21-23rd October BooB Jam 2022 / Turku
- 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
Announcements:
- Netflix has a new internal games studio founded in Helsinki, Finland. More here
- Stadia is shutting down. Google refunds purchases.
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- 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- Neon Daze update for Pako Highway is out! New stage Neon Daze, new jungle/dnb radio station Nice 1 FM (with song by dear friend Ville Konttinen aka Keff) and two new cars! Out now on App Store and soon in Google Play
- Kingshunt by Vaki games will be on Steam early access on November (article also in Finnish)
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A new game is signed for publishing. This time also funding for the development all the way from the US; from Double Jump Capital were fixed. ➡️ Garden In! is a cute and relaxing sandbox game, where you grow gardens from your dreams with no stress. The game is grown by an Italian game studio called Dramatic Iceberg.
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