Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine weeks 7/2024 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:
- 23rd February Game Development World Championship The event will be at Tallinn, Estonia
Awards will also be live streamed on their youtube channel
- 8th March Game Audio Awards gala 2024 / Oulu
- March 8, 2024 special International Women’s Day breakfast and panel discussion on at the Next Games offices / physical event is sold out but you can sign up for online event
- 18-22 March Game Developers Conference / San Francisco
- Digital Dragons 19-21 May 2024. Indie Showcase applications are accepted until March 1, 2024. Another opportunity for studios to show their games in front of investors, publishers, and media is Digital Dragons Arena. Krakow, Poland
See also The Game Industry Events calendar 
Game Conference Guide Calendar Flemish Game association calendar & Game Industry Biz
Announcements:
- Nitro Games has signed a Publishing agreement for Autogun Heroes with publishing solution Supersonic from Unity.
- Alan Wake 2 was honored with the award for Art Direction by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences at the #DICEAwards!
Open jobs & Recruitment:
- In these uncertain times, many talented professionals are being affected by layoffs. If you find yourself in this situation, Games Factory Talents connecting Passion & Talentwant to share with you a their session recording from the Autumn #gamesjobfair. Using LinkedIn to find your next career opportunity. The importance of having a strong profile that catches recruiters’ attention is essential.
Unfortunately, many candidates miss essential elements that can decrease their chances of being called for an interview.
Watch Oleg Paliy’s session recording to learn how to “pimp up” your profile and increase your chances of landing your next career opportunity. Let’s make the most of the tools available to us in these challenging times.
Join Games Factory Talents connecting Passion & Talent at the upcoming Spring #GamesJobFair this April - 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 
- Tuonele from Kouvola has published puzzle game Boing Odyssey in Steam
Other News
- Solip’s Comic episode of about Finland’s talent import system is that it’s not just about private companies hiring people. There’s a lot of involvement from the public initiatives, especially from the municipalities level.
- Pelaaja magazine for invited Tomi Toikka from Makea Games toPelaajacast! Was a great episode. Be sure to tune in on YouTube or Spotify to hear the latest episode, where Tomi talks a lot about Makea Games and Supermoves (in Finnish)!YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKtp4Sz2NcMSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4vO6eQ7hzldpy2mGZ6njM2…
- Hive Helsinki, a free coding school application periods are open soon again.
- Supercell’s blog post about comfortable feeling uncomfortable
- 2023-2024 Game Industry Alumni Search Survey for Jyväskylä, Central Finland. NOTE: This survey is not for the current Game Industry students in the scene.