Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 42/2023 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.
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland
Events:
- 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
- 31st October The HIVE – Turku Game Hub 7th anniversary party
- 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:
- 25th-27th October Games Job Fair / Online + Onsite 27th Innopoli 2, Tekniikantie 14, 02150 Espoo, Finland
- Rovio is looking for a LiveOps Producer to join them! Less producing (team already has great producers to support!) more of LiveOps configs, economy, business and LiveOps planning!
- Huuuge Games’ studio in Finland is looking for Art Director to join the team!
- 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
New releases 
Other News
- PEGI is updating the PEGI Agreement which sets out the terms and conditions for participation in the PEGI age classification system. This update includes a few notable changes to the PEGI Code of Conduct, see the summary (on Play Finland Facebook) of the new elements that we will start monitoring in 2024.
- Finnish National tv (YLE) has released new document series from video games. Document is in Finnish.
- Wheelie King 5 new update is out now
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Finland and the world mourn the passing of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, a man who dedicated his life to peace mediation in global conflict zones. The Finnish game industry cherishes a light-hearted yet poignant memory of Ahtisaari, who once lent his unique sense of humour and warmth to mediate a conflict between a flock of angry birds and a squad of menacing pigs. In a world where severe conflicts are again shaping the course of history, Ahtisaari’s lifelong commitment to peacebuilding serves as a solemn reminder that the quest for peace is perhaps more urgent now than ever before.
- The list of Games made in Jyväskylä, Central Finland is released
- The HIVE – Turku Game Hub is turning 7 years this October and what better way to celebrate local game developers successes than in the spirit of Halloween – welcome to spooky Turku
- Story about Skábma – Snowfall game which was partly funded by Avek Digi Demo. (story in Finnish)