TagsWeekly News,
A fully packed week with Finnish Games Week—big hand to IGDA Finland, Pocket Gamer, and We Love Games for making it happen! Hats off to Future Run for closing a second investment round led by Supercell. Remedy Entertainment is pushing strongly towards self-publishing goals with a €15M loan from Tencent. On the sustainability front, Neogames continues to champion green values in SGA interviews. Last but not least, check out the open game industry education programs!
💎Highlights
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland director KooPee Hiltunen presented in Pocket Gamer Connects how Finland’s games industry is weathering the storm
- Sustainable Games Alliance interviews;
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
🏫Education
- Enrollment for Arcada University’s fully online Game Design and Production course is open until October 15th
- GamePro program is offering companies top candidates ready to excel in roles like Game Programmer, 2D/3D Artist, Game Designer, and more through the Games & Software F.E.C. Recruiting training program starting in November-December. As a candidate apply here and fill your profile
💰 Funding
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- Oct 1st – Nov 5; Advanced AI Training for Content Creators (event in Finnish) / Oulu
- Octber 9th EGDF Webinar with Epic Games Store! 16:00 CET Fill out the form by October 2nd
- 30th October Games First Helsinki Registration is closed
- November 7-8th Games Job Fair
- Online event / LinkedIn Live: November 7
- Onsite / Kamppi Helsinki: November 8
- 15th November XmasJKL
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