Startups from Finland: Everyplay: Stealth Social Gaming Startup
Everyplay is a new Finnish “social Gaming Startup operating in stealth mode”. Vierityspalkki reports (in Finnish) that the company’s founder and CEO is Jussi Laakkonen, who previously worked for another Finnish game company Bugbear, the makers of Flatout.
They only information on Everyplay’s home page is their vision: Read more…
Startups from Finland: MoiPal - Tamagotchi Networking On Your Mobile Phone
MoiPal is a friend you create on the internet and that lives in your phone. With MoiPal you can play fun games or just hang out and have a talk with some other pals.
In other words, MoiPal is a cross platfrom mobile game with an online environment for customizing the player’s own virtual content. It is developed by Ironstar Helsinki.
Check out a review at KillerStartups.com.
Kloonigames: Finnish Student Creates Great Experimental Games
Kloonigames is an effort of Petri Purho, a Finnish computer science student, in which he creates one experimental game per month. You can see his exceptional skills and ideas in this video about his tablet PC physics game [via Scobleizer]:
Another great idea Read more…
Startups from Finland: Xiha Life Is Looking East
Xiha Life is a Finnish social networking startup that is looking east. The company behind the site, Xiha Ltd, was actually established in China but has since moved its headquarters to Helsinki because the lack of skilled employees. They have most features that you expect from any social networking site (profiles, photo sharing, friends etc. ), but they are “focusing on multi-cultural aspects and casual games.” Xiha Life’s business model relies in advertising but also game sales. The site itself is free and so are the trial versions of the casual games that can be downloaded from the site (which seems like strange thing to offer instead of online games that could be played on the site). Read more…
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