Games First hosted by Supercell

PHZ Game Studios and Apprien teams participated at Games First hosted by Supercell. It was held at the Cable Factory on Thursday the 8th of June. Supercell has hosted the legendary and highly awaited Games First events already from 2014 onwards. They were organised both in Helsinki and London. Due to the mandatory and unfortunate brake of events over the covid-pandemic period also games first was on hold but are now finally back!

It is an event for game developers to meet other game developers and to strengthen networks. The idea behind this event is to meet other game developers and people in the games industry so that we can learn from each other and to share knowledge along with experiences.

In addition to exquisite keynote speakers the legendary game demo session, where you can show what kind of game you are working on, allowed a concrete glance to what kind of new ideas are twirling around in the game developing field. 

This is such a professional and fun event and we had a blast! Thank you for the invite Supercell!

The Nordic Game Conference 2023 in Malmö

The Apprien team and PHZ Game Studios visited the Nordic Game Conference 2023 in Malmö. The Nordic Game Conference is the leading games conference in Europe and there were 1500 games industry professionals gathered all around the globe to this event. Also Nordic Games Awards was held during the conference and we were pleased to see that Finnish games got awarded. Well done!

But also we were there to meet old and new customers and friends and tell them about Apprien and PHZ Game Studios. It was once again a pleasure to visit the Nordic Game Conference and to meet and share thoughts with professionals of the games industry.

Student excursion from Laajasalo institute

On Wednesday last week we had the pleasure to host a group of Laajasalo institutes game students. There was pizza and drinks and two presentations by our Game Studios GameLead Sasu Louke and by the founder of PHZ Antti Hätinen. Sasu gave an interesting presentation about Apprien automated IAP pricing engine and also about game development at PHZ Game Studios and on the whole in the game development field. Antti Hätinen gave a presentation about PHZ’s leading idea Extreme Programming also known as XP.

After the presentations there was sauna warming up and the jacuzzi was also available. 

It is always a pleasure to have gaming students in the office mingling with our game developers. It gives us also new perspectives and the students learn hopefully also new things. Sounds like a win-win situation! 🙂

Castle War: Idle Island the Pit

We are excited to announce a new addition to Castle War: Idle Island! Gamemode the Pit is now released. In the Pit you can play and increase your ranking. You can try to gather points and improve your ranking for one month at a time. After one month your score will reset to zero in the Pit and you can start gathering points again. Every time you gather 1000 points in the Pit you can choose one from three new items. The prices you get from the Pit, you can use in the main game.

Go check it out and have fun!

The Finnish Game Awards

The Finnish Game Awards was held in Helsinki at the Old Student’s house but before the main event, we held a little preparty at our Offices for our customers, cooperation partners and stakeholders. We had such fun times at our preparty that the time just flew by and we almost were late from the actual gala, but luckily we got it there in time after all.

Approximately one hundred people were attending the gala and celebrated together the achievements of the game industry. Koopee Hiltunen from Neogames ry was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Power Player of the year Award was given to the grounder and CEO of Critical Force Entertainment V-P Piirainen. Three Men Games’ Pako Highway was awarded not one but two awards: the game of the year and the mobile game of the year. Undead Horde 2: Necropolis from 10tons was the Big Screen Game of the year.

The Gala was exceptional and big congrats to the winners! Seems to us that the Finnish game industry is still kicking it!

You can learn more of the awarded games on Neogames:  https://neogames.fi/fga23winners/

Games Job Fair Spring 2023

Games Job Fair Spring 2023 was once again a success and we met many promising candidates. We also had interesting conversations about the games field and get to mingle with our fellow gamers and developers.

Online our PHZ Game Studios teamlead and Apprien advocate Sasu Louke gave a speech about the Apprien app among other interesting online expert talks and panel discussions. Onsite in Espoo on friday we met face to face with our fellow gamedev community and had a blast.

Was so nice to see you all there!

Meeting Plug in Digital-team in France!

Apprien and Game studio’s team were visiting Plug in Digital, the publisher of Siege Castle and Castle War at their new headquarters in Montpellier. During the visit there were great conversations about the collaboration so far and planning of new possible game projects also took place.

Luckily Game Studio’s and Apprien’s team were in Montpellier at the same time as the Celsius Online team, which PiD had just bought. Therefore Game Studio’s team also was able to have interesting conversations regarding the mobile game market and Apprien’s team members introduced them the Apprien app.

These kind of face to face visits strengthens collaborations between our team and Plug in Digital’s team and are truly a pleasure!

You can learn more about Plug in Digital and Celsius Online at their websites:

 Plug in Digital (PiD):

 https://plugindigital.com/ 

Celsius Online:
https://www.celsius-online.com/ 

Games Job Fair 2023 coming up next week!

Come to meet us on Games Job Fair next week! An event dedicated to recruitment, career-building and networking in the games industry.

Online April 26th -28th and Onsite in Espoo on April 28th

Our Game Lead Sasu Louke is giving a presentation about Apprien Automatic IAP Pricing at the event.

There is also a programming challenge which Sasu Louke will be judging with Unity.

Find out more about the challenges: https://gamesjobfair.com/programming-challenges-unrealengine-unity

Come check the event out and hear what’s happening right now in the games industry! See you there!

Castle War: Idle Island – Multiscription Unleashd

Great news! We have launched an update for Android users to Castle War: Idle Island. You can now subscribe to Multiscription Unleashd and get all the benefits to your Castle War: Idle Island game.

Test free trial to check out all the unique benefits in Castle War + multiple other games with one subscription!

Multiscrition Unleashd for Android: 7 new features to Castle War: Idle Island

Full House at Unity Meetup!

There was a Full House at Unity Finland User Group meetup with PHZ at our office with Unity developers and enthusiasts!

Sasu Louke from PHZ Game Studios, Roni Jokinen from DieNo Games and Arto Koistinen from Random Potion kept presentations about interesting Unity topics. The night continued with open networking and mingling at the office with pizza and drinks, sauna and jacuzzi. 

Great night filled with interesting conversations. Thank you to all the participants!