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Winner winner, chicken dinner! Supercell’s Squad Busters won iPad Game of the Year 2024. But that’s not all – Nitro Games is creating a game for PC fans – Autogun Heroes: Supercharged. Solo-developer Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen and his upcoming game Drivers of the Apocalypse reveal trailer shined on PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted. Stay tuned to for more industry updates!
💎Highlights
- Supercell’s Squad Busters won iPad Game of the Year 2024 award
- Nitro Games announced Autogun Heroes: Supercharged – to PC
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📣Neogames News
- Aki Järvilehto has been elected as the new chair of Neogames Finland ry board.
- Neogames Finland ry Suvi Latva is continuing for a second term as a board member of We in Games Finland Association. She also delivered a lecture about Finnish Game Industry and how to enter it at our educational institute member, University of Jyväskylä.
- Gamebadges project is looking for professionals to be interviewed of the following roles: game marketing, 2D related art roles, audio (tech side), programmers (especially AI related positions) – sign up for interview here! Interviews will be used to update Game Industry Competence Map.
📰 Game Industry News, thoughts & discussions
- Game Production students at Jyväskylä get ready to conquer game markets
- Metasound Tutorial – Part 2 – Audio Implementation basics released
- Discussion about Google Play Games (Beta) experiences
- Finnish Game Jam Board elected
- Finnish Game Jam is coming on 24-26 January 2025 and has several different location all around of Finland + They also have Call for sponsors
- Creative Europe Media Desk in Finland has appointed new director (Feb 2025 onwards) – congrats to Liisa Sauri! (Article in Finnish.)
- In Central Finland, young people using mental health services can join therapy virtually with VR goggles (article in Finnish)
- Latest Pelaajabarometri is out now – abstract in English, overall report in Finnish
🎮News from and about Finnish Game Studios
- Makea Games revealed latest update Supermoves Forever, for Supermoves
- Supercell’s Squad Busters won iPad Game of the Year 2024 award
- Nitro Games announced Autogun Heroes: Supercharged – to PC
- Buzz Lightyear enters Supercell’s Brawl Stars for holiday season
- Interview with Kokoon Games CEO & Co-Founder Henri Lindgren
- Channel37 welcomes Jack Pattillo as Community Manager
- Solo-developer Jussi-Petteri Kemppainen’s up-coming game Drivers of the Apocalypse reveal trailer premiered on PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted, reported also by the Rock Paper Shotgun
💰 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
😍 NEW Finnish games released
📝 Jobs & Recruitment
- KAMK is seeking a lecturer for a fixed-term contract for the period 1.1.2025-31.12.2025.
- Very good and detailed advices to make job application, by Jarkko Laine
- Check more tips and links from Neogames webpage
👉 Upcoming Events
- 12-14th December; WEkEO Hackathon 2024: “Data-Driven Solutions for Climate Change”
- 3-6th January 2025 SuomiGameHUB Talvijami 2025
- 24-26th January 2025 Finnish Game Jam
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