Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 41/2023 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.
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Neogames Finland
Events:
- 17th October Virtual Realms and Footprints: Exploring Player Data by Living Game Intelligence Network
- 21st October DevCon 4 / Platform6 Tampere
- 25th-27th October Games Job Fair / Online + Onsite 27th Innopoli 2, Tekniikantie 14, 02150 Espoo, Finland
- 26-27th October Makea Games Supermoves Server Stress Test to test their server infrastructure. YOU can get to see early what we are working on. Completely multiplayer including the Makea Editor and the Makeaverse – and everyone is invited
- Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/supermoves
Sign our NDA to get your Steam key
Test Supermoves on Steam!
- Join our Discord at https://discord.gg/supermoves
- 27th October Google Cloud Halloween Horror Stories in Helsinki
- 2th November SHINE / Creative industries networking event /Turku
- 2-3rd November Game Connection Europe
- 10th November XmasJKL – The Finnish Game Industry Business Seminar in Jyväskylä
- 28-29 November Nordic Game Conference Helsinki
- To get a pass with half-price, act now! Last chance: NG23 Helsinki half-price offer ends 13th October!,
- 29th November Match XR
- 30th Nov.-1st Dec. SLUSH
- 7th February Over 7 Hills 2023 / Turku
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- Looking for a job:
- Junae Bennett is moving to Finland in a few months Junae is a writer/journalist, marketing manager, & PR person and been in the industry over 10yrs worked with brands like Xbox, Corsair, bylines in WIRED, Tom’s Hardware, featured in Gamespot, PC Gamer and much more. Junae is currently a program manager for th IGDA Foundation. Check Junae’s portfolio: www.JunaeBenne.com
- Antti Seppänen, rewarded in Finnish Game Awards, is looking for a Narrative Designer / Game Designer / Writer position in a Finnish game company. Check Antti’s portfolio here.
- Rovio is looking for Senior Product Manager to be a part of the upcoming Moomin Puzzle & Design project!
- If you are a Facebook user and looking for jobs in gaming in Finland, make sure to follow Pelialan työpaikat Suomessa Facebook group hosted by Finnish employment agency Duunitori. Open positions tagged to game industry are shared in the group automatically. We are in no way affiliated with Duunitori, but wanted to point out this resource as another good way to check out open positions.
- 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
- Fantastic Flop – The story of Nokia N-Gage -exhibition has opened at The Finnish Museum of Games / Vapriikki
- Check the video that focuses Steam visibility, how Steam works to connect players with games they are likely to enjoy. It was released few days ago and is recommended to everyone with interests to know more about that topic, to check it out.
- Kimble Games, Drag Bikes 3 is on preorder
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Beloved Finnish IP’s venture into games => Remember the Norvegian Moomin game Snufkin? They have a demo out! And btw, the game has music by Sigur Rós. Check theDemo on Steam.
- Games Now! is working on the academic year 2023-24 program of lecture series. Call for speakers here.
- Starring Finnish music artists are part of the coming Alan Wake music’s. (Article in Finnish)
- Great story about bankruptcy; 6 Lessons Learned from a Bankruptcy