Give Your Career an Edge With Games Job Fair Autumn 2023

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Ready for new growth and career opportunities from Games Job Fair Autumn 2023?

Join studios such as Redhill Games, Gaijin, FunPlus, GIANTS Software, and many more for 3 days of networking and fresh new fun, career-boosting activities ONLINE & ONSITE on October 25-27. The onsite part of the Hybrid Day takes place once again in Espoo, Helsinki area on October 27th. 

Event Highlights

🎮 Expert talks, panels, workshops
🙋 Dedicated recruitment day
đź’¬ Networking with games studios
đź’» Unreal, Unity, and Art Challenges
đź“” Creative and Animation Portfolio Reviews
🗺️ Hybrid Day 3 in Espoo + Afterparty at HypeHype HQ

Be sure to keep an eye on the event’s Career Wall as well.

Programming and Art Challenges

The Unreal and Unity Programming Challenges are back, and there are new, fun prompts to work on. Show us your coding skills and win prizes!

Redhill Games are hosting a VFX Art Challenge where you get to create a complete projectile effect that fits either of the two provided character’s visual theme.

If you want to take a swing at something different, Sloyd brings us the Sloyd in-a-Ball Render Challenge. Create your own snow globe using the Sloyd tool, and showcase your rendering, material design, and environment art skills!

Animation and Creative Portfolio Reviews

The event’s familiar Creative Portfolio Review is being held as usual, but now you get the brand new Animation Portfolio Review! Adam Turnbull, Principal Animator at NetEase Games, will be reviewing animation portfolios and works!

New Workshops

Arja Martikainen of GamesJobs.FI and Barona, is hosting a super fun onsite workshop on the event’s hybrid day, October 27th. During “Play & Learn the Basics Through a 1-Hour Roleplay - The Do's and Don'ts of Interviewing With a Games Studio,” participants get to dust off their acting skills and step in the shoes of those involved in interviews with games studios.

Redhill Games are hosting one for the audio folks this time. Rob Carr, Mission Scripter & Senior Audio Designer, will head “The Art of Sound Design;” an hour long, detailed overview on how sounds are made for video games and movies.

Make sure to click on the links and register for the workshops above!

The Legal Employment Clinic by Maria Jauhiainen, expert lawyer with Game Makers of Finland, returns, so be sure to check out their booth onsite.

More HypeHype’s Afterparty Goodness + Surprise Activity

HypeHype is welcoming attendees of Games Job Fair back for the October event. Enjoy drinks and snacks in the good company of peers, and get that competitive spirit going for a special fun activity the studio has planned for the hybrid day.

How to Join

Just fill out this registration form and remember to pay for your ticket when you are taken to Eventbrite. All applications are screened, and all approved talents receive further instructions by email. Don’t forget to join the Games Factory Talents Discord server and get to know the community.

Use the code "IGDA" if you're a member to get a 15% discount! Only 100 tickets available, so act fast!

For more on the event, check out GamesJobFair.com.

IGDA Finland Leadership Day 2023 - Get your tickets now!

We invite you to join us on our fifth Leadership Day on the 11th of September at BioRex Helsinki!

Leadership Day by IGDA Finland is an international event about how we build companies, teams and working cultures to build better games. Games companies, their inner workings and cultures are some of the least documented aspects of game development. Yet we and our work are all defined by these choices every single day. Join us in learning and challenging the cutting edge of leadership in games from some of the brightest minds in the industry!


Speakers

Saara Bergström
Next Games / Netflix

Mika Tammenkoski
Metacore

Jaakko Kylmäoja
Fingersoft

Jinesha Gandhi
Redhill Games

Wanda O Rly
Psyon Games

Aki Kanerva
Virtual Air Guitar


Sponsors

For more info visit our event page

IGDA Leadership Day

IGDA Future at Assembly 2023

As previous year, we are delighted to welcome you to the workshops and seminars at Assembly 2023, organized by IGDA Future program of IGDA Finland!


To sign up for the workshops, feel free to use this form, but also ad hoc attendance is possible.

Check full program of Assembly Creative Zone and welcome to the party of the year!

Join the IGDA Game Accessibility SIG's European Conference

The IGDA Game Accessibility Special Interest Group volunteers have worked since 2003 to aid the game industry in making games accessible for all, regardless of impairments or other limitations. The European conference is a hybrid event taking place in London and online April 24-25. Tickets for the streamed content and networking in Discord are free, but it’s possible to make a donation when getting your ticket.

For more information visit the IGDA Game Accessibility SIG webpage or the conference registration page:

Head to Tallinn for the GDWC Awards Ceremony

And the winner is….

The finalists for the Game Development World Championships (GDWC) are set and the winners will be announced at the GDWC Awards Show taking place at Erinevate Tubade Klubi in Tallinn, Estonia on April 22nd from 18:00-22:00 EEST.

IGDA Finland members get 50% off the ticket price when using promocode: 50off
Tickets can be bought here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-game-development-world-championship-2022-tickets-566168875347

Show your support for the finalists and network at the event. For those you can’t attend, the event will be live streamed on GWDC’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thegdwc

For more information on the awards ceremony and the finalists check out: https://thegdwc.com/awards/

Address: Erinevate Tubade Klubi, Telliskivi 60-A1 10412, Tallinn, Estonia