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J-P Kaleva
@jpkaleva.bsky.social
An institution nerd working for video game geeks revolutionizing the world as we know it.
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🇪🇺 THE STATE OF THE EUROPEAN GAMES INDUSTRY IN 2025: BUILDING GRIT
The road ahead is tough—uncertainty, funding struggles & global challenges add to the pressure. But tough times make the best entrepreneurs. Now is the time to adapt, innovate & grind. Read our president's insights: zurl.co/780QX
March 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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👩‍💻 Happy International Women's Day! Only 24,4% of the industry workforce are females, but it gets better, if we continue:
✅ Building an inclusive game industry  
✅ Tackling the under-presence of young girls in games culture
✅ Tackling the lack of female founders of gamedev studios
zurl.co/nqH7X
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Three years and the fight goes on. It is time to stand with Ukraine more than ever. #slavaukraini youtu.be/LIUoFuSuvTM?...
Ukrainian refugee sings with Lithuanians in support for Ukraine
YouTube video by Neringa Rekasiute
youtu.be
February 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
As many of you have noted, the European Commission has published its work plan for 2025. Here are my five quick takes on it. 1/6

commission.europa.eu/strategy-and...
Commission work programme 2025
On 11 February 2025, the European Commission adopted the 2025 Commission work programme and its annexes
commission.europa.eu
February 13, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Regulatory market access barriers make it challenging, especially for SMEs, to enter the EU game markets. Thus, the Commission must tackle these barriers in the upcoming update of the Single Market Strategy. These are five key actions the Commission should take: 1/6 www.egdf.eu/egdf-calls-t...
EGDF calls the Commission to tackle regulatory market access barriers
EGDF response on call of evidence for Single Market Strategy 2025 In its response to the call for evidence for the Single Market Strategy, EGDF underlined that the Commission should focus on removi…
www.egdf.eu
January 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Like demoparties in the 1990s, game jams play a pivotal role in European game industry team and talentbuilding. This year, the @globalgamejam.bsky.social reached over 13,000 professional and amateur game developers and created over 3000 games in 300 locations all over Europe. #GGJ2025
Games | Global Game Jam
globalgamejam.org
January 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Free markets do not work without fair competition. It is time for the
Commission to fully open mobile markets for competition by forcing Apple and Google to comply with #DMA so that actions like this would not be needed to bring the benefits of DMA to the. EU. www.theverge.com/2025/1/23/24...
Epic will expand its mobile game store by helping cover developer iOS fees
Epic is hoping Europe will step in to help in its fight.
www.theverge.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM