Week 42: PGC Nordics 2026

Come and play Grandpa’s Bee Haven, only 6.99 EUR.

Last two days, I was in Helsinki attending Pocket Gamers Connect. As Grandpa’s Bee Haven is selected in The Big Indie Pitch.

New trends

The first day of the event is about marketing. How to make UA(User Aquisition) and D2C(Direct to customers). Some how TV party games is more focused in these talks. It might be the TV games are becoming a trend, or because Netflix is one of the sponsor.

Play Testing

In the indie game show, I played

• Book of Infinity: 1001 Nights,
• Gulltatrophy.
• Cat Craft,
• Purr-suit of Happiness.
• Rail Jam
• TimoS
• Trainimals
• Game Couch
• Nothing Normal
• Football Parents

Practical AI

There are talks about using AI to make games and making assets. Although it is AI week in Helsinki. There is no big companies like Google show up.

QA

AltTester has a good talk about using it to do integration test

City walk in Helsinki

I always think that the inflation in Estonia makes everything 1.5 - 2x more expansive. It turns out that it is the same in Helsinki.

Dawn in Helsinki shows a strong loneliness feeling of scandinavian style. Although Helsinki has more population than Tallinn.