Checkout weekly Finnish Game Industry news by Neo Games!

"This week brings plenty of good news from the Finnish Game Industry. Amistech Games’ My Winter Car continues its strong performance with around 377k copies sold and gross revenue of roughly $4.7m to date, while Hill Climb Racing has reached an impressive two billion downloads and is still climbing. Neogames’ Suvi Latva and Jari-Pekka Kaleva were waving the Finnish flag and taking the pulse of the industry at Pocket Gamer Connects London. Finnish game developers community strength and support is visible in action as Finnish studio BIT ODD donates professional drawing tablets to students, junior developers and rising artists and opportunities keep coming as Supercell opens applications for the Spring 2026 cohort of Supercell AI Lab. There is also a milestone worth celebrating as the Finnish games industry community group on Facebook, PlayFinland, turns 18 years old. And finally, a reminder for students: registration for the Bit1 student game competition is open until Sunday 22 February, with a few weeks still left to polish your game to mint condition."

https://neogames.fi/weekly-news-4-26/

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Competition for student game developer is open!

Bit1 competition just opened their sign ups for this year! It's game competition for student teams (at least half of the team need to be students), Bit1 has been around since 2018 and the winners will receive their trophy at the Finnish Game Awards.

Preliminaries are held in 6 different cities in March and the finals are held in Helsinki early April.

What makes this unique is that in the preliminaries judges are looking for potential, because the teams going to finals will receive mentoring and are expected to better their game for the finals.

If you or someone else is interested check out: https://www.bit1.fi/

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