🚀 What happens when game jammers combine forces with the European Space Agency?
🔭 Find out at Spaceship Game Jam – our new unprecedented game jam happening in August 29-31, 2025! Follow Spaceship Game Jam on IG and TT: @spaceshipgamejam to be the first to know more!
🛰️ Want to sponsor or host a jamming site? Visit spaceshipgamejam.org
🦄Some of the JamJam 2025 Talks and Workshops (will be updated soon):
🌍 Join the Crossing Latitudes 2025 Game Jam! 🌍
Get ready for an incredible journey that transcends borders and unites game developers from Brazil, Finland, and the Netherlands! 🎮✨
🗓️ When: May 30th – June 2nd, 2025
📍 Where: Online (Discord & Twitch)
Immerse yourself in a dynamic, cross-cultural game development experience where global collaboration sparks creativity. Learn from industry experts, collaborate with passionate peers, and showcase your talent to gain recognition from leading figures in the gaming world.
This is the third Crossing Latitudes Jam organized in collaboration with W Love Games, Embassy of Brazil in Helsinki, and this time Embassy of Brazil in The Hague joins the party!
🔗 Register now ➡️ on Itch.io⬅️
Let’s redefine the boundaries of game development together! 🌟
#GameJam #CrossingLatitudes2025 #GameDevelopment #CulturalExchange #indiedeveloper #FinnishGameJam
🦄 Jam Jam 2025 tickets are available now, with the Early Bird discount until April 3, HURRY UP!
🎫 What does the ticket include? 🎫
Program filled with talks on game jams and jam games (and a game jam)📅
Workshops 👩💻
A bed in a two-person shared room or similar 🛏️
Light breakfast and snacks 🥞
Lunches 🍽️
BBQ ♨️🍖
Sauna 🧖
Hot tubs 🛀
Beautiful scenery in a cottage village in the middle of Finnish forest 🌲🌲🌲
More info and tickets at Eventbrite
Finnish Game Jam ry is proud to announce our seventh jam scholarship – and our first one since 2019!
Apply for the Finnish Game Jam Scholarship and go to Copehagen for the Nordic Game Jam (April 3-6, 2025)!
As one of the world’s largest game jams, Nordic Game Jam brings together over 500 participants from 20+ countries for a 48-hour creative marathon, plus talks, workshops, and networking.
FGJ covers your event ticket and provides a 300 EUR travel stipend to support your journey. Don’t miss this chance to jam with an international community and bring fresh ideas back to Finland!
Apply by March 16, 2025: FGJ Scholarship to Nordic Game Jam 2025 Application From
For information on past scholarships see: https://www.finnishgamejam.com/scholarships/
Pride Game Jam is a 3-day game development marathon that celebrates LGBTQIA+ people by creating a safe space where participants can create art, music, and, of course, games, by which they can freely express their gender, sexual, and romantic experiences. The event is going to happen for the 5th time this year! The well-awaited jam will take place in Pelitalo Sture (Konepajankuja 3, Helsinki), during the Pride weekend 28.6-30.6.2024.
The event is hybrid, meaning that jammers can join us in-person in Helsinki, as well as through Discord from anywhere else in the world.
The Opening Ceremony and theme announcement will be streamed on Discord server. We invited really amazing people to have talks, and we booked a Finnish Game Jam block in the Pride parade!
Follow our social media LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram for all jams announcements. You can also follow us through our official hashtags, #PrideGameJamHKI24 and #FGJ. Use these when posting about the event!
Registration to the jam: Eventbrite
Registration to the FGJ parade block (you don’t have to participate in Pride Jam to join): Google registration form
And finally, huge thank you to the city of Helsinki and Pelitalo Sture, and our sponsors Metacore and Next Games!
PROGRAM (may be subject to change)
28.6. FRIDAY
16:00 – 17:00 Registrations at the venue and on Discord
17:00 – 17:10 Opening Ceremony (stream) +
Safety and Code of Conduct
17:15 – 17:30 Keynote speech
17:30 – 18:30 Guest speakers
18:30 – 19:00 Theme Announcement +
Team building exercises! (stream + Discord)
19:00 Jammers, start your engines!
22:00 Good night Jammers!
29.6. SATURDAY PRIDE + JAMMING
10:00 Good morning Jammers! + coffee time together?
10:30 – 15:00 Pride Parade FGJ block
13:00 – 13:30 Guest speaker
15:00 – 16:00 Late lunch break
16:00 – 17:45 Let’s make some games.
18:00 Evening snack
19:00 Mid-point presentations
22:00 Good night Jammers
30.6. SUNDAY LAUNCH DAY
10:00 Good morning Jammers!
11:00 Snack break
11:30 Jammer Interviews! Apply?
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
15:00 Deployment! (start uploading your games)
15:30 Talks
16:00 Prelaunch! (Upload deadline! + Final edits)
16:30 LAUNCH! —> Closing Ceremony with final game presentations!
17:30 – 18:00 Jam ends!
18:00 Cleaning the venue
#FGJ21 will happen January 29-31st 2021, as a part of Global Game Jam. If you want to organise your own site now
As you may have noticed, we are having a little unconventional year, which understandably also affects jamming, and the next GGJ/ # FGJ21 jam. Therefore, we have unsurprisingly made the decision to host the next event fully online.
Head out now to https://globalgamejam.org/ to register a site for your City, School or Company.
To name your site use the following formula:
“FGJ” + “City/School/Company/Organisation/Institution.” + “Online”
(Example: FGJ Lahti Online).
Organising a fully online jam might be a first for most of us, so feel free to send us a message in case you have any questions!
Check out the Eventbrite to see already established sites!
Please say welcome our second speaker and consultant of Pride Game Jam HKI 2020!
Erin Somervail – Realtime VFX Artist
Erin Somervail is a realtime VFX artist and part-time pixel artist from Berkhamsted, UK. They’ve been making games professionally for the last 3 years down in Portsmouth and have worked on a few games such as Robocraft, Hyperscape and Phantom: Covert Ops. Professionally they’re currently working for a VR games studio in Farnborough on an unannounced title, and spending a lot of their spare time developing a cute cartoony metroidvania game about a witch who must protect the balance of nature, and occasionally stream their progress online on twitch.
Get your Remote Jammer ticket on Eventbrite and watch them stream their talk on Saturday!
Please meet our first speaker and consultant of Pride Game Jam HKI 2020!
Salli Loikkanen – Indie Game Developer
Salli Loikkanen is the founder of a small indie game studio called Lizard Hazard Games. She’s originally from a small village near Savonlinna, but her company is currently based in Kouvola. She and her team make story-driven, humorous games with LGBTQ+ themes and characters. Previous titles include Your Royal Gayness and LoveBug, and by the time Pride Jam happens, Lovingly Evil – the Big Bad Dating Sim; a game about dating villains at the Villain Conference!
Don’t miss her talk — get your ticket to Pride Jam’s at Eventbrite now and watch the stream!
Hello everyone! Pocket Jam is now digital!
In collaboration with Pocket Gamer, Finnish Game Jam ry brings jamming to the mobile game conference Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital 2020! The Pocket Jam is run now for the fifth time – this year entirely online. We expect to see a lot of bite sized mobile games – but you can always choose your own platform and technology.
The participants will receive full access to the conference program, expo and networking events plus all the other benefits that come with the conference ticket and a seat to jam. In addition, the Pocket Gamer staff will review the games after the jam and award the best ones!
Tickets are already available! Go to Eventbrite already now! And don’t forget to share the Facebook event with friends!
If you have questions about the jam feel free to contact us. teemu@rautasydan.org
