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It has been a somewhat intensive SLUSH week, where foreigners have witnessed one the reasons why people in Finland are so strong and stubborn – maybe it is connected to very cruel weather. In addition to the weather update, this week’s highlights of The Finnish Game Industry are: Quicksave announcing QSApp, a revolutionary tool making WebGL more accessible through no-code editors. Peter Vesterbacka and Kustaa Valtonen investing in Snorble via their newly launched FinestLove VC; and a well-deserved recognition that New York Game Awards set Remedy Entertainment’s Sam Lake as Legend Award recipient.
💎Highlights
- Quicksave announces QSApp to make WebGL more accessible through no-code editors
- Peter Vesterbacka, Former Rovio CMO (Angry Birds), and Tech Veteran Kustaa Valtonen Invest in Snorble Through Newly Launched FinestLove VC
- New York Game Awards Sets Remedy Entertainment’s Sam Lake as Legend Award Recipient
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📣Neogames News
- Neogames Finland ry crew has been super active during SLUSH week visiting & presenting in several events ie. RovioCon & Google, The Growing Impact of Generative AI in the game industry” by DLA Piper, Playing for the Planet Award Ceremony, Metcore’s Core Talks, and many late evening shifts.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studio
- Remedy’s new ambitious goal: doubling revenue within a few years (article in Finnish) + Control 2 Will Be an Action RPG
- Avek DigiDemo funding decissions has been made. Several Finnish Game Studios got the grant:
- Adjective Animal: Meal Ordeal
- Black Smoke Studios: Rite
- Depictum: Bear Bones
- Dreamloop Games: Alma video game demo
- Glitch Hammer: Get Colossal Demo
- Kalla Gameworks: Anabiosis Demo
- Kinocompany Finland
- Kuura Playhouse: PuckOFF: Gladiators
- MeatBat Games: Colors Of The Fall
- Platonic Partnership: Ivory Tower game demo
- Please Be Patient: Surge Protector
- Red Stage Entertainment: Purrsuit of Happiness demo
- Ten Thousand Hearts: Full Motion Voyeur
- Transparent Eyeball: Art Escape game– Fortnite Creative
- Tree Men Games: Pako 4 demo.
- Win or Learn: Delearnia: Natural Numbers
- Zaibatsu Interactive: Cloaks & Daggers
💰 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
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 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!
Best Regards,
Neogames Finland