What and why?

A game jam is a game development event where the participants have a fixed amount of time to create a game. Usually the created games are designed around a theme, which is revealed at the start of the jam. There are also diversifiers; optional subthemes, constraints and ideas, to give added challenge to veteran jammers.

The Finnish College Jam was created as an initiative to boost the co-operation of Finnish game development academies, to help students improve their skills and meet new contacts. We are proud to announce the continuation of this jam, aiming to keep this new tradition going strong!

Jam organized by 

• Business College Helsinki
• Careeria
• Riveria
• SASKY
• Sataedu
• Savon Ammattiopisto
• Stadin AO
• Vuoksi

Speakers 

This year during each day of the Jam, we'll have industry speakers in Business College Twitch channel. Schedule  and timetable below.

• Annakaisa Kultima from Finnish Game Jam ry
• Samuli Jääskeläinen (avid jammer, speaking about jamming)
• Maija Koivula from Frozenbyte
• Mikko Nylander from Kuuasema
• WizardLotion - Afterparty gaming

Special thanks to

Finnish Game Jam ry

Schedule

Times are in EEST / GMT +3. For students: 6 hours jamming a day, highly recommended. Between the jamming hours. 

Discord and Rules?

We use our Discord server as the base of all teamwork and communications during the Jam. We want to maintain a warm, secure and professional atmosphere for everyone to enjoy!

That’s why we all represent ourselves and our respective organizations in a positive light, using our real names. We treat ourselves and each other with respect, at all times.

The goal is to have fun together, create interesting games and to forge new bonds of co-operation across schools in Finland!

Invite link to the Discord server.

The Theme: 

OPACITY

List of optional Diversifiers:

• Your Life is Currency
  
• One Button, Two Functions 
• End Where You Started 
• Minimalist  
• Control Two Things At Once  
• AI Content Generation 
• Unstable 
• Industrial 
• Control More Than One
• Pausing Has Consequences 

You can see the results of the previous jams here: 

• https://itch.io/jam/finnish-college-jam-4
• https://itch.io/jam/finnish-college-jam-3 
• https://itch.io/jam/finnish-college-jam-2 
• https://itch.io/jam/finnish-college-jam-1

Your school not partnered? Want to join? For more information, please contact:  eero.manner@bc.fi 

Thank you and let's have a great jam!