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Jam Jam 2025 is coming!
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
Thank you for attending Jam Jam 2022!
“Woah! What a weekend! Thanks to everyone who attended this year’s Jam Jam festival! We hope to see you back next year! The weather this time treated us well and the warmth wasn’t too unbearable. The food was tasty and not too much of it went to waste. The hot tubs were warm and only one terrace got broken. Overall we feel this was a huge success!
We’ll send the feedback form out to the participants really soon and we really want your thoughts and suggestions. We especially hope to hear from you if you are interested in organising or volunteering next year.
Finally, huge thanks to our volunteers who made the event possible. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Thanks again!“
– Joni Finne and the rest of the organising team.
Welcome to Jam Jam 2022
Jam Jam is a two-day summer festival and retreat for game jam organizers and anyone interested in learning, discussing and sharing ideas on game jams.
Jam Jam 2022 consists of a workshop day and talks on game jams and jam games. 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 all other jam organizers and jam-organizers-to-be, brainstorming new jams and sharing lessons on organizing events.
Retreat in a cozy cabin environment
The event is located in the middle of a Finnish forest, on top of a mountain called Sappeenvuori – about 2 hour car ride from Helsinki (see details from Sappee.fi). The venue consists of eight well-equipped cabins with saunas and hot tubs surrounded by the beauty of a Finnish forest and the power of the midnight sun of the Northern summer.
Join the team of volunteers
Right now we are looking for volunteers to make the event possible to organize. Please fill the forms below if you are interested to be involved in one of the greatest events in Finnish Jamming Summer!
- Volunteer Applications here
- Early Bird Tickets on sale here
- Workshop Apllication (for participants) here
JAM JAM 2020 – IMPORTANT UPDATE
Dear Jam Enthusiasts,
It is with heavy hearts that we are cancelling Jam Jam 2020 due to the Covid-19 crisis. We are truly disappointed that after a year’s worth of planning this year’s event, we won’t be able to bring together our fellow jammers, educators, partners, and invited guests.
Everyone who purchased a ticket will receive a full refund in Eventbrite in the near future. We will do our best to ensure that the refunding process goes as smoothly as possible.
We want to thank you all for your support. We believe that great things happen when the community comes together and connects all of us. Plans for Jam Jam 2021 next summer are in the works and additional details will be announced later.
If you have any questions regarding the Jam Jam 2020 cancelation please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Please take care of yourselves, your family and friends! During these uneasy times, we should unite now more than ever and fight the spread of Covid-19 together by washing hands and engaging in social distancing. Stay healthy!
Faithfully yours,
FGJ team
JAM JAM 2020 Early Bird Ticket
Go and get your Early Bird Ticket for Jam Jam 2020 already now! They will be available until the end of February! Hurry up and check the Eventbrite.
JAM JAM 2020 speaker – Thorsten Storno Wiedemann!
The second speaker of Jam Jam Festival 2020 announced!
Thorsten Storno Wiedemann is the founder and artistic director of A MAZE. He produces and curates under the international label A MAZE. festivals, exhibitions, and workshops on the intersection of games, digital arts, and playful media. With “A MAZE. / Berlin” and “A MAZE. / Johannesburg (until 2017)” he created two annual festivals to present independent and alternative games culture and to connect Europe, Africa, and the world. He generates new controversial formats (e.g. A MAZE. Magazine, A MAZE. Pop-ups, A MAZE. Train Jam) and gives room for experimentation, collaboration and exchange. Thorsten established since 2012 the A MAZE. Awards, which goes to artistic and groundbreaking works in six categories. His focus is on the interdisciplinary and diverse discourse about art-forms of the 21. century.
He gains to fill the gaps between playful media, art
JAM JAM 2020 speaker – Sos Sosowski!
The first speaker of Jam Jam Festival 2020 announced!
Sos Sosowski is the legend behind the 0h Game Jam and he will be joining us in June 2020 revealing all the pain and joy of running the shortest game jam in the world for years. Will there be one in 2020? It depends on clocks… Don’t miss this talk, get your tickets to the festival in Eventbrite already now!
JAM JAM 2020!
We are happy to announce that the 4th international Jam Jam Festival will be held on 13-15 June 2020!
Jam Jam Festival was bigger than ever!
Third international Jam Jam Festival 2019 gathered jam organizers from all over the world to the forests of Sappee, Finland, to network, share ideas and relax in good company. This year was the biggest Jam Jam ever with almost 80 participants!
The Seminar Day offered talks from jammers and game jam organizers from all over the world: Finland, India, Romania, UK, Poland, Estonia, USA and Denmark.
Keynote speaker Yadu Rajiv from Bangalore, India, talked about the game jamming and game development communities and in India. Jupiter Hadley, the founder of indiegamejams.com, talked about her journey trying to play and document as many indie games as she can.
The full Seminar Day schedule was as follows:
- Keynote: Yadu Rajiv: Game Jams in India – Our Story So Far
- Kacper Domański: Game Jams of Poland
- Mathias Jensen: More than a Jam: Nordic Game Jam’s Evolution
- Chris Filip: Learning to Let Go
- Johanna Summers: 47 to 47,000 – Managing Community Events on a Global Scale
- Sebastian Laitila: Using Service Design in Hackathons and Game Jams
- Licia Prehn: Jamming With Blind People and Being Nice
- Jupiter Hadley: Trying To Document All the Game Jam Games
- Julia Rässa: Love Is Tested… and Debugged!
- Elie Abraham: How Jamming Saved/Ruined My Life
In addition to the seminars on Saturday, the Sunday was filled with workshops that any participant could organize. The workshop themes ranged from jam stories to making pancakes to jamming an entire song.
Naturally there was also a game jam! Henri Sarasvirta hosted a 1 hour game jam in one of the cottages. The theme world tries dilation was randomly generated. A total of 11 games were made! You can find and download all of them in itch.io: https://itch.io/jam/jam-jam-1h-jam-2
Thank you for an amazing event, and see you at Jam Jam Festival 2020!