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BIG news for The Finnish Game Industry this week was Bit Odd securing a €17 million investment round. Another good news is Sega reporting a 22% rise in half-year games revenue, partly driven by Rovio sales. Huge congratulations to Tuomas Pirinen for the tremendous success of his Trench Crusade (tabletop wargame) Kickstarter project, which has already raised over 3.3 million dollars.
Next week will be SLUSH mayhem with its side events – hold on to your hats!
💎Highlights
- Bit Odd has raised €17 million ($18m) in an investment round.
- Sega’s half-year results driven by 22% rise in games revenue – Sega also noted that recording of Rovio sales contributed sales increase.
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📣Neogames News
- Level up: IP Strategies in Games event organized by Neogames and PRH was a great success.
- Neogames Finland, as part of the Gamebadges project, is updating the Competence Map—a guide to game industry professions and skill levels by seniority—and needs input from both game industry professionals and game educators
- Neogames Finland ry Chief Policy Advisor; Jari-Pekka Kaleva, will be featuring panel at “The Growing Impact of Generative AI in the game industry” by DLA Piper
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- The Games First talks at youtube.
- Kajaani Game Lab is looking for Game Business Coaches for Incubator + Accelerator
- Niko Lähdesmäki developed game in Roblox and earned neat revenue of ovet million euros. (Article in Finnish)
- New tricks on UA; Supercell Promotes ‘Clash Of Clans’ Game With True-Crime-Like Podcast.
- Open art exhibition at Kumma Gallery (Kankurinkatu 5, Helsinki)! Join during weekdays 14-17 until 29th Nov!
- Game Developers are not always aware yet, that they do need Game Research – Says Jaakko Kemppainen (Blogpost in Finnish)
- Peliosuuskunta Expa (Expa Game Business Co-operative)’s YouTube channel; ”Unreal Education & courses” first part
- Remedy’s Game Developer Conference 2024 Talks on Creating Alan Wake 2
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studio
- Tuomas Pirinen raised over 3.3 million dollars of funding at Kickstarter for Trench Crusade tabletop wargame with miniature figures development.
- Dream loop utilize EU funding for their next project (article in Finnish)
💰 Funding
- Finnish Creative Media desks are organising an online info session about Video Games and Immersive Content funding on December 11th, at 14-15.30 o’clock. Registration to the info session (Dec 10th the latest)
- More information about Creative Europe funding
- Creative Europe’s funding call for video games is open – application deadline on Feb 12, 2025.
- Bookmark: EGDF’s Summary of EU video games industry funding calls for 2024 is up to date
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- Apply to Kajaani GameLAB is a free mentoring program by 10th November
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 14-15th November XmasJKL
- 18th November Playing for the Planet Networking & Awards
- 20th November Core Talks: The Art and Science of Scaling
- 23-24th November Theme Park 2024 / Helsinki onsite
- 26th Sustainable Games Alliance’s working group AI & Sustainability first meetup at 12.30 Finnish time.
- 28-30th November 2024 the Unbreakable Connectivity Hackathon/ Espoo Nokia HQ. Apply here. The event has €10,000 prize pool and access to the Sirius Partner Program and there are also travel grants are available.
- 12-14th December; WEkEO Hackathon 2024: “Data-Driven Solutions for Climate Change”
- Kick-off Webinar on November 4, 2024
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!
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Neogames Finland