Press Release – For Immediate Release

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