Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the weeks 24-27/2017 from the Finnish Game Industry. Check out all the events, news and job openings!
See also the latest (updated) report of the Finnish Game Industry.
Events:
- July 12 Women in Games meetup at Pori
- July 13-14 Illusion 2017 plus VIP access to Ilosaarirock 2017 in the middle of Summer. Sign up now.
- July 27th-30th China Joy / Shanghai
- August 3-6th Assembly summer / Helsinki
- August 3.-5. Assembly ARTtech / Helsinki
- Aug. 9.-10 Media & Message ((AV-Sisältöalan konferenssi) / Helsinki
- Aug. 22-26th Games Com / Cologne
- Sept. 19-20th PG Connects Helsinki
- Sept. 20th Game Music Collective in Concert. Listen the sample
- Sept. 22-23 4C Conference at St. Petersburg
- Oct 11, 20917. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
- Nov. 1st – 3rd Game Connection Europe => Join The Nordics DL: Sept. 18th
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs:
- Full XP Games is growing and we are looking for a part-time administrator to join our team. We offer a great working environment and the possibility to grow together with our company. The position is initially for a 3 month period, however there is the possibility of extending it into a permanent full-time position. Send us your CV to team@fullxp.co
- Want to come work at Yle? We’re looking for developers. Two of the jobs are focused on Unity3D. (only in Finnish)
- Panic Art Studio hakee graafikkoa tekemään assetteja Hero Siegeen. Hakemukset panicartstudios at gmail com
- Heavyweight Rex is hiring a Unity (C#) Lead Game Developer
- 700+ game companies in the Nordics to get an overview of game development jobs available right now. Currently 440 job openings in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway – browse through them at http://gameform.eu/
- More jobs at gamesjobs.fi
Releases:
- JiPPO! Street, the latest game from Kiemura, is out now on App Store
- Nonstop Dash – Rags to Riches By Visiogames is out for iOS
- Happy Hobgoblin‘s Uphill Skiing is OUT NOW! Get it from Steam with a -10% launch discount for a limited time.
- Barracuda Disaster releases End of The Road VR, A VR horror game for HTC Vive in Steam
- Safari Kart is out in iOS
- Greener Grass Dice Hunter: Quest of the Dicemance is out globally iOS & Android
- Housemarque launched ‘Nex Machina’ on PS4 and PC on June 20th
- Owl Valley Team releases Pueo: Adventure in Android
- Augmented Climbing Wall will launch new game Astromania soon
- EDP:Wayfarer is released on Oculus Store for GearVR
- Mr Future Ninja by Huijaus Studios is out App Store & Google Play!
- Afterlife Entertainment julkaisi tänään 100-vuotiasta Kainuuta kunnioittavan hyötypelin “Kainuu 100”. Tosin Kainuuta kauempana ei peliä hyödytä pelailla, sillä kaikki pelin GPS-lokaatiot ovat täällä päin.
- Kuurouteen liittyvä tietopeli iOS & Android
Announcements:
- Rival Games announces what they have bee working on for the past year and a half: Thief of Thieves with Robert Kirkman and Skybound Entertainment. The game will be out early next year. Have a look at the first teaser for Thief of Thieves: Season One
- Supercell has granted EUR 250,000 for Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
- Next Games is raised to the Nasdaq FN 25 index, awesome! (story only in Finnish)
- Nitro Games rang the bell at Nasdaq First North Stockholm at June
- Team Next Games is super excited to announce our Blade Runner project!
- Supercell guns for eSports scene with new real-time multiplayer mobile game IP Brawl Stars
- Critical Ops in Top 5 Mobile Apps of 2017 & reached 22 million downloads on June
Other News;
- Armada Interactive has been nominated for Startup of The Year in the Nordic Startup Awards!
- Minion Cannon – Spinner legend run Official trailer
- The Game Music Collective, Europe’s first orchestra focusing on playing game music. Debut concert at Finlandia Hall 20.9.2017 – games like Final Fantasy, Halo, The Legend of Zelda, Diablo, Elder’s Scrolls, Grand Theft Auto, and Call of Duty will be featured in our highly visual show. Tickets now from Ticketmaster
- “KPIs – The Indicators of Importance” blog post by Koukoi
- Still open postions at Game Executive program
- Critical Ops developer opens South Korean office and targets Asia after hitting 22 million downloads
- Kiemura’s releases Jippo on July 6th
- Drawrace3 is updated (soft launch still) Android & iOS
- Panzerdog Oy is looking for Beta testers!
- PG CONNECTS RETURNS TO HELSINKI WITH PC AND VR TRACKS!!
Take advantage of the special MIDSUMMER OFFER
Use promo code “MIDSUMMER” to save 20% on tickets, delegate tickets, which now includes indie tables at reduced rate. - A look inside the company culture of Nonstop Knight developer Kopla Games.
- Pieni tyttö vaeltaa yksin ympäri kyliä, kun vanhemmat vain ryyppäävät – Nyt puhuvat suomalaisen uutuuspelin alkoholistiperheissä kasvaneet tekijät, joille projekti oli ”puhdistava kokemus”
- Uusi gps-paikannusta hyödyntävä mobiilipeli kokoaa yhteen Kainuun kulttuurihistoriallisesti merkittävät kohteet.
- Rovio researches Motivations to play digital games. Fill the survey
- (only in Finnish) Ubisoft (www.ubi.com) tuo yhdessä suomalaisen RedLynx-pelistudion ja South Park Digital Studiosin kanssa South Park -televisiosarjan suositut pelihahmot mobiilipeliin.
- Soumiverkkarit & Juhannuskenttä have just arrived to Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters.
- Ville Oinonen, tanssija, joka olisi kiinnostunut tekemään yhteistyötä pelimaailman kanssa tai tuomaan omaa osaamistaan pelien maailmaan.
- Ville Vainionpää on peli/elokuvamusiikin tekemisestä kovasti innostunut. Hakee peli, elokuva,dokkari,traileri, yms muu projekti. Ei odota ihmeempiä palkkioita… Referenssit
- After December 2015, over 60 NEW full-time, paid jobs into Kajaani Game Studios.
- (Canard?) Tencent Explores Acquisition of Angry Birds Maker Rovio => (only in Finnish) Tencentin tarjous Roviosta uutisankka – “Mitä tulee listautumiseen, se on täysin omistajien asia”
- The Eastern influences that inspired Angry Birds Evolution’s design
- Elektronisen urheilun baari PLAYS avaa ovensa Lahdessa tulevana syksynä!
- Pokitto is a one-man show from Lahti, has been featured at Maker Faire Rome 2016 and Maker Faire Bay Area 2017 and succesfully Kickstarted with 27k USD backing. An active community of gamedevs, retrogaming lovers and electronics enthusiasts are eagerly waiting for us to ship this #diy electronics gaming gadget. 36kB of RAM is the name of the game!
- Study: Mapping the Creative Value Chains A study on the economy of culture in the digital age
- Big Bang Legends in Uganda
- South Park: Phone Destroyer a new mobile title developed in collaboration between RedLynx and South Park Digital Studios
- Team Jolly Roger is releasing Interplanetary Enhanced Edition this summer, all this possible because of new partners: Team17 Digital Ltd. and Advanced Interactive Gaming
- (Only in Finnish) “Nyt tuli joku, joka nosti riman ihan uudelle tasolle” – Kiinalaiset opettivat Supercellin kuuntelemaan enemmän pelaajia
- Finnish developer Koukoi Games expands Crashing Season IP with new endless runner
- Alexandre Ferraro, the developer behind last year’s Corgi Pro Skater [Free], is working on a brand new game called Dungeon Tower
- Hideyuki Shima, a freelance music composer from Japan. He is looking for Finnish game developers who need the services of a decent composer. See the CV & Demos
- Kukouri’s 2D MMO Pixel Worlds has been released on Steam (PC/Mac) see the 12 hour live stream culminating in the game going live!
- Presenting Virtual Reality game Planetrism, a Virtual Reality game about exoplanet colonization. More about our development in devlog & videos
- 4C:Conference at St. Petersburg – Call for Speakers The deadline is June 20th.
This is the weekly summary of news from the Finnish game industry. If you want to have your news on the list, post them on the Play Finland Facebook group. The summary will be posted every Friday afternoon. Check out previous week’s list.