Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine week 49/2023 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:
- 12th December IGDA Helsinki December Meetup
- 14th December Rovaniemi IGDA Hub Christmas party on Thursday
- 14th December Global Horizons: Employment in the Game Industry / Helsinki XR Center
- 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
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- 14th December Global Horizons: Employment in the Game Industry / Helsinki XR Center
- 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
💰 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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New releases 
Other News
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Tentacle Zone three-month virtual Incubator Program.
Here’s the key info:
Applications open on 8 Nov and close on 11 Jan.
The programme begins on 5 Feb and ends on 3 May 2024.
Because it’s virtual, we can accept applications from all over the world.
Completely free to those taking part. - W Love Games community presents their new logo and brand and the winner of W Love Games Art Competition 2023 – huge congrats to Niilo Salioja
- Survey for all English-speaking academically trained migrants in Finland!
Share your experiences with language, employment, and adjustment to living in our online survey for a chance to win a free cinema ticket!