JamJam 2026 – 5.6 – 7.6


JamJam is a festival and retreat for game jam organizers and anyone interested in learning, discussing and sharing ideas on game jams. Jam Jam 2026 is organized by the Finnish Game Jam and located in the middle of a Finnish forest, on top of a mountain called Sappeenvuori – about 2 hour car ride from Helsinki (see details in Arrival section). JamJam begins on friday the 5th of june and ends on sunday the 7th.

The event consists of talks on game jams and jam games and workshop day. During your visit you can decide what you work on – bring your jam organizing team and work with planning or debriefing your jams or come without an agenda and talk with other jam organizers and jam-organizers-to-be, brainstorm new jams and share lessons on organizing events.

In the evenings we gather around the grills, go to saunas, and soak in hot tubs, accompanied by karaoke. Bring your beer pong, favorite board game, crafting materials, or anything, or nothing but yourself. There are plenty of activities for everyone!

Program is very preliminary and will be updated as we get closer to the event.

Friday

  • 12:00 Bus leaves from Helsinki in front of Kiasma
  • 14:30 Bus leaves from Tampere bus station
  • 16:00 Cabins available
  • 16:30 Talks
  • 20:00 Talks over
  • 20:00 Saunas & hot tubs open
  • 20:00 Grills heat up
  • 24:00 Saunas & hot tubs close

Saturday

  • 09:00 Workshops start
  • 13:00 Lunch
  • 17:00 Grills heat up
  • 19:00 Saunas & hot tubs open
  • 20:00 End of workshops
  • 24:00 Saunas & hot tubs close

Sunday

  • 12:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 Closing ceremony
  • 15:00 Cabins empty.
  • 16:00 Cabins closed & bus leaves to Helsinki.

Full list of talks and workshops coming SOON

  • Jam Jam Bus from Helsinki – the bus ride departs at 12:00 from Helsinki city center in front of Kiasma on Friday and returns Sunday evening (leaving Sappee at ~16:30). The bus ride takes about 2,5 hours. Your contact person for the bus ride is Christopher Hamilton (phone: +358 40 660 1160).
  • Jam Jam Bus from Tampere – The bus leave from Tampere Bus Station at 14:30 on Friday and returns Sunday evening (leaving Sappee at ~16:00). Contact person Lauri Komulainen (phone: +358 40 516 9924)
  • Reserve your ticket at Eventbrite.
  • Arriving by car – Use your map application and set “Sappeen matkailukeskus” or “Sappeenvuorentie 200” as your destination and locate “Sappeen Tähti” cottages from this map: https://www.sappee.fi/fi/aluekartta. Alternatively use this exact pin:  https://bit.ly/2X1pEXF
  • You can park your car in the festival area as long as there is space. If we run out of space for cars, there is a large parking area nearby. The expenses of your own car is on you. 
  • Arriving by regular bus – Regular buses operate daily to Pälkäne (https://www.palkane.fi/), a nearby small village. Take a look at the schedules at https://matkahuolto.fi/. Let us know well in advance if you are joining us with a regular bus, so that we can try to get someone to pick you up from the village (it takes about 20 min. to drive from Sappee to Pälkäne). The regular bus ticket is on you.

Few spots are still available: Eventbrite