Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine weeks 40&41/2022 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:
- 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
- 18th October Digi & Game Center Open Doors in Jyväskylä every other Tuesday between 13-16 o’clock
- 19-22 October 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
- 2nd November We in Games and Next Games Breakfast Event
- 1-30th November Free City of Games / Kouvola: Idea call/applying until 1st of October.
- 3rd-4th November Game Connection Europe / Paris
- 16 November Match XR
- 17th-18th Slush Helsinki
- 26-27 November Theme Park. A digital art event
- 18 – 21 April 2023 GamiFIN Conference. The call for papers is now open! Submission Deadline: December 20th, 2022
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
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
Discussion
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Suvi Latva: Niko Partners claims that the top five trends that will reshape the way people will experience games are the metaverse, web 3, cloud gaming, extended reality, and virtual influencers. What do you say? See the comments in Play Finland FB.
Other News
- Annakaisa Kultima is opening a tiny gallery for playful and gameful art in Helsinki this Autumn – Kumma Gallery, where is wall space (and some table space too) for about 3-5 big paintings or up to 10 small paintings. Aim is to curate an exhibition of works utilizing traditional non-digital media, made by game makers, as the first exhibition for the space. Please contact Annakaisa (Annakaisa.Kultima@aalto.fi) if you got interested and would have something available for exhibiting (and if you want to, for sale) in mid November. You can also suggest digital works, games, playful installations and concept art, or full ideas for exhibition projects.
- EA studio Track20 decided to help Theme Park. A digital art event to happen.
- Studio Mankeli, a newly started gaming studio located in Tampere, Finland! Their first game, Casually Cultured, is about to hit the Google Play store in the upcoming weeks.
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Two weeks ago there was the opening ceremony of Pelipoikilo game art exhibition in Kouvola. Pelipoikilo includes 27 playable games which handle questions about life, universe and Everything. The exhibition will be open until January 8th 2023. Pelipoikilo is a central part of Capital of Game Art project, which consists of several different activities and exhibitions around games as an art form.
- Tampere Game Hub has opened sign-ups for Finnish Game Incubator! Application deadline is October 21st.
- Please Be Patient released their first demo for Finnish Army Simulator and appreciate feedback.
- Nick Lukkonen asks if there’s groups, courses or general game development meetups for 14 year olds.
- Bonus Stage Publishing published Trible Take by British FlyAway Studios.
- Digi & Game Center in Jyväskylä has open doors every other Tuesday between 13-16 o’clock. First open doors were on October 4th, next one will be on October 18th.
- Finnish game industry people are welcome to join gamedev.lv meetup on October 12th, 19.00, at UniCon Cafe in Riga, to hear Moonaria development and publishing story and also to monthly Show’n Tell.