Finnish Game Jam

19/11/2024

📢 Site registrations for have opened! (Finnish Game Jam 2025) is a 48-hour-long game development event organized as a part of (GGJ). In 2025, and the GGJ will happen on January 24-26.

Are you interested in hosting an on-site or online location for this year's FGJ?

1️⃣ Head on over to GGJ's website for registration: https://globalgamejam.org/

Anyone interested is welcome to sign up! There are only a few requirements to host your own site which you will find on GGJ's website here alongside other helpful information: https://globalgamejam.org/running-jam

2️⃣ Next, join the FGJ Discord server, where all communications regarding the jam will happen. https://discord.gg/jS3FUpDxYS

3️⃣ After you have signed up to host a site on GGJ's website, our GGJ Regional Organizer will contact you to go over everything related to GGJ and . Choosing to be under the FGJ umbrella, you get additional benefits such as a channel in the FGJ Discord server for your site, some swag for your jammers, support from our team and more!

Have more questions? Feel free to ask in the FGJ Discord!

16/11/2024

👉 Did you know that we in Finnish Game Jam have a tradition to honor the outstanding examples of games created at our jams?! Well, now you do!
🗓 This year we collaborate with Xamk Game Studios and will present the awards to the recepients on stage of Satama Arena in Kotka within the XAMK Game Track event - November 21, from 12.00 onwards.
It is a wonderful opportunity to network, listen to industry professionals, and party 🎉
Tickets are FREE, secure yours today!
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/gametrack2024

11/11/2024

is going to be huge, but what if you want to make games now?! Here is a wonderful chance to join Games Now! hybrid jam!

🎉 GN! Event Week has started today and the jam theme announcement will happen tomorrow, so you have time to register.

📢 Theme announcement - 12th November (Tuesday)
📽 Gameplay videos deadline - 15th November (Friday)
🎮 Final submissions deadline - 17th November (Sunday)

More information and registration at:

We run at least one game jam in the academic year inviting everyone to participate in playful and collaborative game making! In 2024-25 we will run two game jams in hybrid mode.

05/11/2024

❄ WINTER JAMMING SEASON IS HERE! 🦎

🌍 Global Game Jam site registration is open which means that Finnish Game Jam 2025 is approaching! We have been working on it to happen for some time already, and now is a good time to alert all Finland's regional organizers. Whether you have done this before, or want to try yourself in event organization - you are warmly welcome to join! site registrations will open SOON!

💡 Meanwhile whether you are a jammer, an organizer, someone in between or beyond - join our Discord server - https://discord.gg/mFAcznEvdm where all the jamming hustle is happening.

01/11/2024

Zero Hour Game Jam - Small Jam, Big Results

Our traditional gimmick 0-hour game jam was held last weekend during the daylight saving transition hour. Making a game in zero hours sounds impossible at first, but caffeine-fueled jammers have once again proved that it is indeed possible, especially with very relaxed rules (1 hour of actual development plus extra time for uploading and making an optional video).

Altogether, 8 games have been uploaded to the jam's itch page (some of these heroes worked solo!): https://itch.io/jam/fgj-zero-hour-jam-2024/entries

Game jams are amazing for boosting confidence in working on a tight schedule, and the Zero Hour Jam is the ultimate test, with high reward and zero risk. Join our Zero Hour Game Jam next year, or keep an eye on future posts—we're planning more jams SOON!

23/10/2024

The world's shortest jam is coming THIS WEEKEND! Let us present you...
🕒 The Zero-Hour Jam! What in the world is that? - A game jam held during the daylight savings transition, which is from 3am to 3am on 27th of October, 2024. The participation rules are just as short as the jam itself - go check them out and join:

A game jam from 2024-10-26 to 2024-10-27 hosted by Finnish Game Jam. A game jam held during the daylight savings transition. From 3am to 3am on 27th of October. The night between saturday and sunday. Daylight savings mi...

21/10/2024

Finland is well-known for it’s game industry scene, encompassing both indie and AAA-developeres, multiple universities teaching gamedev and game design, and of course, non-commercial organisations, such as Finnish Game Jam ry, IGDA Finland ry, W Love Games ry, and others. All organisations have goals and purposes of their own, however they all are working towards information sharing, networking, and collaboration. Helsinki Games Week 2024 has been a great collective effort to acheive this.

IGDA Leadership Day, Pocket Gamer Connects, and We Love Games Conference had something to cater to all tastes and interests. Multitude of game demos to have fun with and help developers with feedback, endless opportunities for networking with industry professionals, mentorship cafes, chat corners, panel discussions, speeches, and workshops. All these events have been packed into an unforgettable week-long event.

Special thanks to Casimir Kuusela for the IGDA Leadership Day and W Love Games Conference photographs, and Solip Park for the Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki photographs.

11/09/2024

🎭 We have good news and bad news for you today.

Pocket Jam is still on pause this year meaning no making games together at PGConnects, BUT we offer an exciting opportunity to get a discounted ticket to Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki conference!

returns to Helsinki on October 1-2!

⭐️ 1,500+ attendees
⭐️ 200+ speakers
⭐️ Networking opportunities
⭐️ Content on mobile, PC, console, AI and more

🔗 Follow this link (discount applies automatically):
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/757654885157/?discount=FGJ-PART-DB20

🔜 See you at PGC!

The leading games industry conference, Pocket Gamer Connects, returns to Wanha Satama, Helsinki, for two days in 2024!

05/09/2024

⚛ Quantum Game Jam 10 Years Celebration!

We invite you to join us for this epic game jam on September 13-15 online!

👾 13-15.09 - Quantum Game Jam 2024 Register on itch.io:

https://itch.io/jam/quantum-game-jam-2024

🎉 To celebrate this milestone, in collaboration with Department of Computing at Turun yliopisto - University of Turku and IGDA Future program of IGDA Finland, we are organizing a one-day IT conference “ENTANGLE: Bridging Quantum and Classical Computing” in Turku with line of esteemed guest speakers. Students can get a study credit for participating at the conference and the game jam.

➡ For more information visit quantumgamejam.org

30/08/2024

🆕 This August we prototyped a new game jam! 🆕

ProtoKoli combines the magic of Finnish nature with game making, all organized around the sense of community. Originally envisioned as an event for game industry professionals and game dev educators, in the spirit of game jamming ProtoKoli warmly welcomes everyone.
The first edition of the jam took place between 16th and 21st of August, combined with the GMTK game jam which was going on at the same time. This gave an added spice to the event, with the jam theme becoming “Built to scale”. Overall, one game has been published, however, ProtoKoli brought a lot more.

Over a course of 4 days we had:
🏡 1 cottage with sauna, mixed with
🏞 1 pure water lake with warm water, hosting
🎲 1 game jam lasting for 4 days and 6 nights, in
- Awesome amounts of warm atmosphere, for
😏 9 people (which of 7 at the same time), releasing
🎮 1 game, additionally making
📜 5+ prototypes, and also
👾 148 pixel art sprites, with
⬛ 62,312 lovingly handcrafted pixels, that required
- Kilos of delicious food to feed hungry jammers, including
🍳 46 eggs in 4 days and 6 nights of cooking, with surprisingly only
☕2 packets of coffee consumed, because we also achieved
🚶‍♀️7 km hiked up a hill (vaara), though we did have
🏃‍♀️ 1 morning runner, with
👨‍💻 3 late night devs, and
💤 at least 3 not-so-morning-people, ending in
🕚 11 AM as the average breakfast time.

However, if by reading all this you thought that four days is a really long time, you are sort of correct. But then, do you know how awesome Koli is?

To follow and combine the two themes of the event, on Saturday, August 17th, we scaled (= climbed) the vaara of Käränkä, during a hill-climbing forest walk. We testify - the berries are tastier high up in the mountains!

On Sunday, we went on to climb the most iconic mountain of Koli, right at the national landscapes. Some of our attendants had to leave early, so climbing Ukko-Koli was in a way ending the first part of the game jam.

We also got to enjoy some amazingly tasty food (that we made all by ourselves – special love goes out to our food preppers