📖 Biography

Tomi Toikka is an award-winning founder, entrepreneur, game designer, creative director, and CEO from Tampere, Finland.

With over a decade of experience in the gaming industry, Tomi has worked across commercial productions, startup ventures, and experimental indie projects. Most recently, he served as the CEO, Founder, and Creative Director of Makea Games from 2022 to 2025, a studio dedicated to building a multiplayer universe powered by user-generated content (UGC).

At Makea Games, Tomi oversaw the company’s vision, strategy, fundraising, branding, marketing, community development, and game production. He also served as the Creative Director and lead designer of Supermoves, the studio’s multiplayer UGC-powered parkour showdown, which earned 2nd Place for Finnish Game of the Year 2024 at the Finnish Game Awards 2025.

Today, Tomi is pursuing two parallel creative ventures. Through Catland, his revived personal indie label, he develops experimental games that embrace creativity, collaboration, and unconventional ideas. At the same time, he is the Founder and Creative Director of DREADMILL, a new game studio currently developing TIDEBREAK, an underwater co-op shooter thriller focused on systemic gameplay, dynamic environments, and chaotic multiplayer experiences.

Before founding Makea Games, Tomi was the CEO, Founder, and Creative Director of Catland, where he led the development and release of titles such as Taphouse VR and The Spy Who Shrunk Me. On both projects, he worked extensively as a writer, producer, and director, helping shape their creative vision from concept to launch.

Beyond game development, Tomi is deeply involved in supporting the Finnish game industry and startup ecosystem. He is the Founder and Board Member of Tampere Game Hub, an organization dedicated to connecting and supporting game developers and entrepreneurs. He was also one of the founding members of Platform6 Startup House and serves as Mentor and Co-Founder of Finnish Game Incubator, a program focused on helping the next generation of game creators turn their ideas into successful businesses.

Tomi’s mission has always been to build games and ventures that embrace chaos, unleash creativity, and bring people together. Whether developing ambitious multiplayer experiences, mentoring new founders, or building communities, he remains driven by a lifelong passion for creating games. Having started making games at the age of eight, Tomi continues to pursue new ideas, projects, and adventures with the same enthusiasm that first inspired him to enter the industry.

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Pronunciation

My very Finnish 🇫🇮 surname “Toikka” is pronounced /ˈtoi̯kːɑ/ – the surname Toikka is like “toy car” without the last R!

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