Credits and attributions

Last updated 24 October 2026

Made by Pietari Niinimäki.

Early Access

Helsinki Online is in Early Access. The whole city is here, but parts of it are still unfinished.

The city is built from Helsinki's and Finland's open data. Many people and studios contributed assets, tools and work to this game. This list is not final: full and proper attribution will be given to everyone whose work is in the game.

Open data

City of Helsinki open data. Laser scanning 2021, street and green area register (YLRE), tree register, buildings and building register, districts, water areas, parking areas and the 3D city model. Lähde: Helsingin kaupunki, kaupunkiympäristön toimiala / Kaupunkimittauspalvelut. Processed into game terrain, meshes and textures. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: hri.fi, kartta.hel.fi.
HSY – Helsinki Region Environmental Services. Land cover 2024 and bare rock areas. Processed into terrain materials. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: hsy.fi/avoindata.
OpenStreetMap. Road and walking network, tram and rail lines. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Licence: ODbL 1.0. Source: openstreetmap.org.
HSL – Helsinki Regional Transport Authority. Stops and timetable data (GTFS). © HSL. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: hsl.fi/hsl/avoin-data.
Digi- ja väestötietovirasto (DVV). First names and surnames for the character's random name, from the Finnish population register name lists (2026-08-04). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: avoindata.suomi.fi.
Earth maps · Solar System Scope / INOVE. Earth textures based on NASA imagery, used in the Earth-to-Helsinki opening of the intro film. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: solarsystemscope.com/textures.

Logo

Helsinki Online logo by @bones20ca. The 3D Helsinki Online logo.

3D models

Havis Amanda statue by @bones20ca. The 3D model of the Havis Amanda statue at Kauppatori.
Kauppatori market tents by ThatKoza. The market tents at Kauppatori (Market Square).
"Simple Bathtub" by neverfollow81. The magical bathtub. Modified: scaled, re-materialled and rigged as a vehicle. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: sketchfab.com.
"Helsinki metro train, HKL Class M300" by Tais Ulyanova. Modified: optimised and re-materialled for the game. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: skfb.ly/pxq7U.
"Silja Line M/S Silja Symphony (1991)" by FHA_studios. Modified: re-materialled for the game. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: skfb.ly/pLQGV.
"Tripod harvester Rig" by NO DONT EAT ME CASEOH. Modified: re-materialled for the game. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: skfb.ly/oY9qJ.
Home fixtures. "Toilet" by hippostance, "Like Shower Set" by dm3V, "Bathroom Faucet" by Sristaps3D, "Kitchen Tap" by ethan_garden. Modified: cleaned up and re-materialled. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: sketchfab.com.
"Generic passenger car pack" by Comrade1280. The cars in the city. Modified: split into car bodies, re-materialled and set up as game vehicles. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: sketchfab.com.
"Fishing Rod" by Emiliano.Herrera.Galindo. Via the FishingGameTool package. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: sketchfab.com.
"High poly rubber boot from 3D scan" by Dan-Levi Tømta. Textures, via the FishingGameTool package. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: sketchfab.com.

Textures

CGAxis. Terrain and pavement PBR textures, used under a purchased licence. Source: cgaxis.com.
Poly Haven. Textures. Thank you to the Poly Haven artists. Licence: CC0 1.0. Source: polyhaven.com.
ambientCG. Snow texture. Licence: CC0 1.0. Source: ambientcg.com.
Twemoji. Emoji graphics for people's moods: the 3D reactions above people and the faces on the talk card. © Twitter, Inc. and other contributors. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Source: github.com/jdecked/twemoji.

Music

Luca Bertani-Green. Music. Instagram: @_luca.mp3_.

Sound

Footsteps. swuing, sabotovat, Eelke, EminYILDIRIM, ceberation (Freesound) and Lee Barkovich (archive.org). Modified: cut and layered into footstep sets. Licence: CC BY 3.0. Source: freesound.org.
Footsteps. blukotek, Ali_6868 (Freesound). Licence: CC0 1.0. Source: freesound.org.
City and nature ambience. ljudman, mrsorbias, floating-tree, felixblume, kevp888, newlocknew (Freesound). Source: freesound.org.

Engine, tools and asset packs

Unity. Game engine and Universal Render Pipeline.
Opsive. Ultimate Character Controller and swimming.
Character Customizer. Character models, clothing and creator system.
KriptoFX. KWS Water System 2.
Enviro 3. Sky, weather and time of day (Hendrik Haupt).
BoneCracker Games. Realistic Car Controller Pro.
NWH Coding. Dynamic Water Physics 2 (boats).
RayznGames. Bikes and Bicycles.
FastSkillTeam. Ultimate Seating Controller.
DE Environment. ALP vegetation.
Gece Studio. Dynamic Exposure.
Kamgam. UI Toolkit blur, glow and particle effects.
Mind Code Interactive. Easy Build System.
Exit Games. Photon Fusion networking.
Adobe Mixamo. Character animations.
FishingGameTool. Fishing system.
HBAO by jimmikaelkael. Ambient occlusion. Includes NVIDIA code under the BSD 3-Clause licence (Licenses/NVIDIA-HBAO-BSD-3-Clause.txt).

Fonts

DM Sans, Outfit, Fraunces, Inter, Nunito Sans, Manrope, Plus Jakarta Sans, Playfair Display, Cormorant Garamond, JetBrains Mono, IBM Plex Mono, Nata Sans. Copyright their project authors. Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (Licenses/OFL-1.1.txt). Source: fonts.google.com.
Roboto Mono, Roboto, Material Symbols. Copyright Google LLC and the Roboto Mono project authors. Licence: Apache License 2.0 (Licenses/Apache-2.0.txt).
Good Times by Typodermic Fonts, AppleTea by wep. Freeware fonts in the vehicle UI.

Full licence texts, source links and notices are in the game folder: HelsinkiOnline_Data/StreamingAssets/Licenses (THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt).

Trademarks and data belong to their respective owners. Open data is used under the licences named above; the data providers do not endorse this game.

About AI in Helsinki Online

I'm Pietari Niinimäki, the sole developer of Helsinki Online. I have 14 years of experience in game development and 3D modelling, and I want to be open about where AI tools are used in this game.

Trees and ground plants. Some of the tree and low-vegetation graphics (the small plants on the ground) were made with AI image generation. These are flat, orthographic billboard images, and the game needs each plant in several seasons, styles and heights. Billboards like that are very hard to find or to make, so I generated them.
Sound effects. Many sound effects are currently made with ElevenLabs. It makes building and testing new features much faster than searching for every sound. Over time they will be replaced with real sound effects from real creators.
Building textures. Some of the more detailed building textures started as real photogrammetry from Helsinki's 3D city model. Those textures are often very messy, so AI was used on top of the real data to clean them up into usable PBR materials.
Code and interface. AI has also been used in programming and in some interface elements.
Not AI. The music in the game is not AI-generated. The city itself is built from open data, so it is based on the real Helsinki.

This is a very early work in progress. I have a high standard for quality, and I will not let bad-looking things into the final release.

Company

Albedo Delight Oy
Business ID 3641382-7
PL 999, 42011 YRITYSLOKERO, Finland
pietari@albedo.fi