Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 47/2023 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:
- 24th November. Game Business Loves Product! Anna Salomaa PC games with publisher!
- 25-26th November Theme Park Finland 2023 / Lahti
- 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 of Nov. Creative Finland House x SHINE! networking event + Come and pitch your idea!
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On stage, you can pitch about your company or a specific project or idea to seek partners. You can also pitch to find project partners for future creative sector funding applications (for example ESR+ funding). Read more in the article. In cooperation with Business Finland and Open Creative House
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- 29th November Match XR
- 30th Nov.-1st Dec. SLUSH
- 14th Dec Creative Europe Media Desk in Finland organizes an info session to those interested in Creative Europe funding opportunities.
- 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:
- 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 
- Urban survival and landlord simulator game, Obenseuer (by Loiste Interactive) is out and available on Steam!
💰 Funding:
- Creative Europe funding for games 2024 has been announced (deadline for application on January 24th, 2024) – regarding to funding there are two info sessions:
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Info session by the Finnish Media desk on Dec 14, 2023
Creative Europe Media Desk in Finland organizes an info session to those interested in Creative Europe funding opportunities. Session will be held online on Thursday 14th of December 14.00-15.30 (Finnish time). Info session will be held in English, but questions and discussion may occur also in Finnish.
Please register by 13.12. by sending e-mail to inkeri.lundgren@ses.fi– link to the interested participants will be sent to those who have registered.
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Other News
- Jani Kahrama giving tips regardig to collision detection in 3D modelling
- Pools demo trailer released + Try demo for free. You can find more Joni Londén‘s work in my portfolio https://jonilonden.fi/
- Neogames Finland ry.‘ director KooPee Hiltunen spoke at the closing seminar (stream on Twitch) of the national Non-toxic – Non-Discriminatory Gaming Culture project. Neogames mediates a national, pan-industry anti-harassment task force, established in 2018, and has been instrumental in creating the Code of Conduct used by local game industry organizations and industry events. The Non-Toxic project has created and excellent publication called The Beginners Guide to Inclusive Gaming Activities, which is available in English, Finnish and Swedish and even as an audiobook!
The Finnish Game Industry Code of Conduct - Creative Finland / Open Creative House x SHINE! networking event brings together content industry companies and professionals on 29th of Nov 2023- Speech by the creators of Alan Wake 2: Remedy’s leading sound designer Ville Sorsa, Poets of the Fall guitarist Olli Tukiainen, game composer Petri Alanko and the CEO of Fried Music, Riku Salomaa about the collaboration that led to global success, as part of the day’s program + Come and pitch your idea!
- Helsingin Sanomat journalist Elina Lappalainen tested Noice. Article in Finnish
- Oleg Paliy / Games Factory Talents connecting Passion & Talent wants to thank you everyone who showed resilience and participated in our #Autumn #GamesJobFair despite the industry challenges and layoffs.
- Game Maker is now free for non-commercial use. It also costs only 89€ *one-time fee* for a professional license!
- New trailer for Longtail!
- Theme Park (a free educational event for visual developers) opened the registration. For zero money you will be able to listen to artists, who worked on titles like God Of War Ragnarök, and Witcher: Gwent, have experience working with H.R. Giger and also you can meet some familiar faces:) Go by the link and register!