Weekly News 41

Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter

In this report we will combine week 41/2020 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:

• 14-16th October Assembly Game Jam (online)
  • Tickets available for this free event on Eventbrite.
• 16 October W Love Games conference (online)
  • TICKETS are available now and the link is first shared to those who have signed up for W Love Games newsletter. Sign up to a newsletter here.
  • SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENTS 

    – Madalina-Georgiana Vladau from RedLynx!
    – Bogdina Buvaeva and Lamees Ouzon from Google
    – Drussila Hollanda-Grönberg from Supercell
    – Salla Hiiskoski from Futureplay Games
    – Sergei Panin from Remedy
    – Ruth Falconer from Abertay Univesity and WIGJ
    – Phylicia Koh (Play Ventures)

• 26th October Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; Psychology of Sound Design (online)
• 28th October Games Job Fair Online
• 28th-30th October Nordic VR Forum 2020 (online)
• 6th of November #XmasJKL 2020 – The Finnish Game Industry Seminar / Jyväskylä
• 23rd November Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Publishing Games in China” (online)
• 7th December Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Exergaming” (online)
• 25th January  Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Founding a Game Company (in Finland), Again” (online)
• 15th February Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Building Sustainable Gaming Cultures” (online)
• 29th March Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Fostering Playful Experiences with Wearables” (online)
• March 2021(Date tbc) British Academy Games Awards
  • Applications already open
  • Thursday 19 November 2020 – Entries close
  • Tuesday 2 March 2021 – Nominations announced
  • March 2021 (Date tbc) – British Academy Games Awards

• 19th April Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Next Generation of Interactive Streaming” (online)
• 3rd May Games Now! open lecture series at Aalto University; “Art of Learning by Doing – The Great Game Jam Panel” (online)
• 19th-23rd of July GDC 2021

See also The Game Industry Events calendar

EGDF in co-operation with Slovak Game Developers Association has build gameconfguide.com for complete list of games industry events and conferences and their status.

 Announcements:

• Dreamloop Games‘ first next-gen project has been announced! They’ll be partnering with Feardemic & Unfold Games to bring DARQ to PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Switch. Read more here.
• Cryptic Cargo is testing out their first prototype of an escape room board game called IllegAI.
• EGDF and Slovak Game Developers Association put together gameconfguide.com for complete list of games industry events and conferences.

 Open jobs & Recruitment:

 Discussion

• Licia Prehn shares a situation with non-Finnish starting a business and having a hard time to open a bank account and hopes to hear for advice and solutions.
• Hannele Muilu, reporter from Yle, is interest of hearing layoffs in game companies, especially if there has not been reasoning for termination of the employment.
• Toomas Moskvinov, a sound design student from Denmark, is interest to hear about unpaid internships in Finland.

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