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Greetings from Grand Cru

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We are very proud to have sponsored the 2014 edition of the Finnish Game Jam.

With more than 700 registered jammers spread out in 14 different locations in Finland (including a moving one) this year’s event was the biggest FGJ yet! We want to thank all 2014 Finnish jammers who participated and shared their passion for games during the weekend. Also, we hope that our space blankets kept you all warm and cosy.
GC thermal blankets Special credits to Helsinki jammers who shared this great picture

By the way we are continuously looking for talented people to join us. At the moment we are looking for programmers and artists. So if you think you would make a great addition to our grand crew do not hesitate and apply now!

Find open positions on our website: http://grandcrugames.com/ or send an open application to careers@grandcrugames.com.

Press Release (in English)

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Press Release – For Immediate Release

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The Finnish Game Jam 2014

The Game Jam games are even being developed on a bus!

The Finnish Game Jam 2014, under the umbrella of the Global Game Jam 2014 once again gathers countless of game developers, enthusiasts and hobbyists to develop games in a 48 hour creative challenge in January 24-26 of 2014.

This year, the Finnish Game jam will gather over 600 participants in 14 locations between the polar circle to the industry hotspot Helsinki. What’s unique for FGJ14 is that one of the jamming locations is a bus. Some of the Finnish games industry’s most talented and prestigious game developers will create their Global Game Jam games in the bus, with limited power supply, limited space and minus 10 celsius outside while visiting 7 other game jam sites in Southern Finland over the course of the weekend.

The Finnish Game Jam is an event that enjoys a wide support from the industry with its participants coming from many game companies such as Grand Cru, Supercell, RedLynx, Housemarque, Frogmind, Facepalm games, Fragment Production, Remedy and Rovio. This year, the event is sponsored by Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, Grand Cru, the hot social gaming startup and Turku Game Lab, a shared co-working space by the Universities in Turku.

The game jam bus journey will be fully documented and the challenging journey can be followed through the Finnish Game Jam 2014 website http://finnishgamejam2014.com/ and hashtag #fgj14.

More details on how to follow the perilous, cold and winterly journey through Finland will be posted on the website.

The Global Game Jam 2014: http://globalgamejam.org/
The Finnish Game Jam Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FinnishGameJam
The Finnish Game Jam Twitter: https://twitter.com/FinnishGameJam

Finnish Game Jam Association
President
Annakaisa Kultima
aakoo@finnishgamejam.fi

Alright to play with your health?

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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.sitra-strippi_webQuite 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.

Sitra