Cases

What happened when Jussi got involved

Incubator programs and game studios, from Oulu to Riyadh.

Finland · Program design · Coaching

Oulu Game Lab

What Jussi did: Designed the pre-incubator model, launched it at Oulu University of Applied Sciences and coached the teams through the first years.
Result: 16 game companies founded in Oulu alone. Four awards, including the world's best innovation and entrepreneurship model in 2017. The model has since been run in eight countries.

Saudi Arabia · Program design · Mentoring

Game Founders

Challenge: Saudi Arabia wanted a local game industry, but had few game companies to build it on. Game Founders was an accelerator for existing companies, so it needed a way to create new ones first.
What Jussi did: Brought the Oulu Game Lab pre-incubator model to Game Founders, adding a stage that creates companies before the accelerator. Small teams pushed their projects through a series of gates, about half of the projects were cut at each gate, and the people from the dropped projects joined the strongest ones. Jussi then continued coaching the teams in the accelerator.
Result: 22 game demos, of which 15 continued into the accelerator as new game companies. Several teams signed publisher deals, and many teams are still in touch years later.

Finland · Business development · Game design

FakeFish

Challenge: A young studio with an ambitious, unusual game, finding its way as a business.
What Jussi did: Advised the founders on business development during the studio's first years, and worked with them on the design of two early game projects.
Result: Their game Barotrauma has sold over 3 million copies.

Programs & incubators

Building game ecosystems

Kajaani, Finland

Game Catalyst

Convinced Game Catalyst to adopt the pre-incubator model. The first program runs in 2027.

Enschede, Netherlands

Game Lab East

Sparred and supported a Game Lab focused on serious games and fully funded by the private sector. At least two game companies were founded as a direct result.

Oulu, Finland

Business Oulu

Game Team seminar series that led to 11 new game companies, and a seminar and webinar series on funding after which at least three existing companies got funded.

Rovaniemi, Finland

Lapland University

Designed and ran a game business course, then trained local staff to run it on their own.

Kajaani, Finland

Kajaani University of Applied Sciences

Helped design an incubator model for the university's students.

Game studios

Helping studios make better games

Finland

Colossal Order

Handled game design on Cities in Motion as an outsourcing partner while the studio was looking for a new lead designer.

Finland

Psyon Games

Producer for the award-winning serious games company. Acted as the link between the team and the global pharmaceutical company GSK on Antidote, a game for a vaccine campaign.

Finland

Koukoi

Game design on two projects. Koukoi was later acquired by SciPlay.

Finland

Kuuasema

Game design and design-driven business approaches on several occasions.

Netherlands

Little Chicken

Sparred the design of a game the studio later released, and helped the team prepare investor materials by sharing his own materials, tools and methods.

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