Global Game Jam is coming to Finland on 24-26 January 2014. We will open our registration in just a couple of days: on Tuesday 3rd of December. All locations have limited participant number – be prepared to register early if you want to be a part of this gigantic jam event in Finland. We have 13 locations currently being processed for you to choose. Registration link will be here. We are so excited and hope to see many of the familiar faces as well as all the new stars!
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Global Game Jam 2014 – Call for game jam locations
Global Game Jam 2014 welcomes all new and old locations all around the globe to register as a game jam site for the upcoming January event. If you are interested to run Global Game Jam in your own city, go to http://globalgamejam.org/ and apply!
A tip for old locations: DON’T LOGIN yet, just click the “Start a new jam site”.
A tip for all Finnish sites: Finnish Game Jam site location should be named as “FGJ yoursite”.
Finnish Game Jam sites work under Finnish Game Jam ry. If you have a brand new location for the next GGJ and are not yet part of the co-operation, contact our president and coordinator Annakaisa Kultima (aakoo[a]finnishgamejam.fi) to gain help and instruction for the organizing process.
Alright to play with your health?
A word from our dear Gold Sponsor for Finnish Game Jam 2014:
Games and gamification have already been identified as key components of the Finnish digital economy. But despite becoming one of the world’s leading developers of entertainment-only games, we Finns have not yet been as successful within the health and wellness games sector.
The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra would like to change this. In 2013, we launched the Gesundheit 2013 competition to find ideas for fun and realisable games or apps that would get people hooked on healthy lifestyles. We were pleased to receive 137 of them.
Quite early on in the competition, we realised that while there is great potential in health games, there is not much information about the market. Thus we commissioned Neogames ry to study the barriers of entry to this exciting and emerging market, to enable Finnish companies to become the Facebooks and Googles of health and well-being games
Sitra’s activities promote and stimulate new business models that aim for sustainable well-being. We will remain active in the field of gamification and well-being, and are proud to kick-off the year 2014 by being a sponsor to the Finnish Game Jam.
