Monthly Archives: January 2015

Finnish Game Jam wrap-up

Global Game Jam 2015 is officially over! Globally we had 28 889 participants, in 518 locations, from 78 different countries, creating 5394 games.
Finnish Game Jam attended with 15 locations all over Finland, and 689 jammers created 175 games! The theme this year was a question: “What do we do now?” …

FGJ keeps on growing

Finland’s numbers are here: 15 locations, 689 jammers! We are once again bigger than ever, in locations as well as in participants. We have no stats to prove it, but with these numbers Finland is definitely one of the biggest jamming countries in the world when compared to population, if not the …

Playraven

Finnish Game Jam 2015 is proud to have a sponsor like PlayRaven. They swim against the mainstream and thrive to deliver unique and fresh strategy games for touch screens, such as Spymaster. Greetings to the team from #FGJ15 and you jammers – check out http://www.playraven.com/!

We are LIVE!

All 15 locations are up and jamming! Want a peek? There are several ways to follow the action: Check the streams from different sites. To follow the tweets, there’s a hashtag wall. The official hashtags are #FGJ15 and #GGJ15. To see videos, check our playlist (more videos will be added throughout …

Join our team at Remedy

Remedy is the original franchise powerhouse known for genre defining hits such as Max Payne, Alan Wake and Death Rally. We’re currently working on Xbox One exclusive Quantum Break and an unannounced iOS title. Both projects need a bunch of new talent, so go ahead and check out our open …

Two days to go!

The Global Game Jam is almost here and Finland is once again leading by example! This year we have more locations than ever: as many as 15 sites from Helsinki to Rovaniemi will gather jammers during the next weekend: FGJ Helsinki, FGJ Helsinki Arabia, FGJ Jyväskylä, FGJ Kajaani, FGJ Kuopio, …