Play Finland’s Weekly Newsletter
In this report we will combine the week 40/2017 from the Finnish Game Industry.
News are gathered the posts in Play Finland group during the week. If the news regarding your business or other activity is not mentioned in the news letter it has probably not been posted at the group either. That is why we would strongly recommend you to post by yourself (however not flood) your Finnish Game Industry related news to the group.
Check out all the events, news and job openings!
See also the latest (updated) report of the Finnish Game Industry.
Events:
- Oct. 5-6th Northern Game Summit, Kajaani
- Oct. 10-11th, White Nights in Moscow.
- Finnish developer can get a booth for free at the exhibition and enjoy networking with world-leading companies.
- 15% discount for IGDA members
- Oct 11-12th SULA
- Oct 11, 2017. Finland 100Y goes Women in Tech 2017
- Oct. 11th at 09:30–11:00 Näin syntyi mobiilipeli Darkroom Mansion / Valokuvataiteen museo, Helsinki
- Oct. 12 Elämä On Parasta Huumetta webinaari
- 19.-21.10. on areenatapahtuma Turussa. Mukana lanit, eSM-turnauksia, miniatyyriturnauksia, MTG:ia, expo-alue, tubettajia (esim. eeddspeaks ja Ink Owl) Tapahtuman liput ovat myynnissä nyt
- Nov. 1st Gamexperience – Parempia pelikokemuksia ja pelillistämistä / Helsinki
- Nov. 1st – 3rd Game Connection Europe => Join The Nordics DL: Sept. 18th
- Nov 2nd Live Game Dev Showdown Competition Sponsored by Nvidia / Espoo
- Can you code, speedpaint, or otherwise create something cool in less than 30 minutes? Submit a video of your skills (DL Fri 27th Oct) – the top 3 will win a NVIDIA Geforce 1080 graphics card (worth 1000€) and get invited to do their performances live at the event stage.
- 16-19th Nov. G-Star Korea
- 17-18th of Nov 2017 #XmasJKL is coming AGAING!
- 30Nov-1st Dec SLUSH HELSINKI
- January 22-23 2018 Pocket Gamer Connects London
- May 8th Games First
See also The Game Industry Events calendar: http://www.neogames.fi/en/events/eventcalendar
Open jobs:
- University of Helsinki, department of Psychology and Logopedics is looking for a project planning officer, preferably someone who is skilled with Unity. Flexible hours, interesting tasks!
- XAMK GameLab hakee peliohjelmoinnin lehtoria
- 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;
- 10tons releases JYDGE on Steam
Announcements:
- Congratulations to the team at Supercell for being ranked number one on the PocketGamer.biz Top 50 Developer list for 2017!
- Nitro Games partners with Netmarble EMEA to bring Medals of War to Turkish and Arabic-speaking countries
- TeacherGaming: Connecting educators with the unique teaching ability of games
Other News;
- The Sidekicks trailer
- 70 000 ongelmapelaajan jäljillä. “Jopa 70 000 suomalaista nuorta kärsii ongelmallisen pelaamisen oireista”, vai kärsiikö sittenkään? Mikko Meriläinen näkökulma tuoreeseen mediakohinaan.
- 32 Hahmokorttia lisätty Areena-lautapelin joukkorahoitukseen, Käy tarkastamassa loput 31 rotua!
- Sociable Soccer Better than SWOS? Preview – Matthew Cawley
- Frostbullet STATUS: INSANE will be released 31st October.
- Kopla Games has new logo & websites
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.