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FGJ 2015 Awards Announced

The world’s first ever Finnish Game Jam Awards was aired on Friday, 20th of March on Twitch.tv/Finnishgamejam. Many thanks to all who participated! Here are the 2015 awards and the awarded: Cool Defuse Award: Metro Rewind
http://globalgamejam.org/2015/games/metro-rewind För Helvete Award: Byggare2000
http://globalgamejam.org/2015/games/byggare2000 Gulp Fiction Award: Disposables
http://globalgamejam.org/2015/games/disposables Moar Poro …

Finnish Game Jam Awards 2015 live on Twitch

Finnish Game Jam to hold the online awards show for the first time Finnish Game Jam 2015 was organized in January 23rd-25th 2015 as a part of the Global Game Jam 2015. World wide, the event gathered more than 20 000 game makers for one weekend to create games together …

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 …

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 …

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, …

Registration open!

The registration for Finnish Game Jam 2015 has been opened today and is already in full speed. Choose your location now and secure your place!

GGJ15: Call for game jam locations

Global Game Jam has opened the registration for the locations of the next Global Game Jam. The next year’s biggest game jam event will have hundreds of locations from all over the world. If you want to organize a game jam in your town, you can apply now! Finnish GGJ …