This jam is now over. It ran from 2025-03-17 07:00:00 to 2025-03-20 21:59:59. View results

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!  

Finnish College Jam is part of the Finnish Game Jam Organization.

We have students participating from the following schools:

Careeria (Host)
Vuoksi
Riveria
SASKY
Business College Helsinki
Eduko
Stadin AO
Raseko
Omnia
Tredu
Salon Seudun Ammattiopisto

You can see the results of the previous jams by changing the number at the end of: 
https://itch.io/jam/finnish-college-jam-[1-7]

Your school not partnered? Want to join? For more information, please contact:  olli.juhola@careeria.fi

Schedule?

The Jam will start with a stream at 9:30 AM, wherein the theme will be revealed. Once the stream is concluded, the participants will team up and start making their games on our Discord server!


All of the created games will be uploaded here and are publicly available to be played, shared and downloaded. All uploads must be complete before the final deadline on midnight Thursday at 23:59.

We highly encourage all participants to maintain a healthy lifestyle and schedule throughout the week of jamming for both personal well-being and optimal performance.

Rating and Criteria

After the turn-in time has been completed people who have submitted a game can start rating the other games to see which ones shined the most.

Submitters & contributors — Both submitter and contributors to submissions can vote

Voting will be on these rating criterias:


Discord and Rules?

https://discord.gg/u5Jzj9mQXA

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!

Theme & Diversifiers

The Good Old Days

Optional Diversifiers:

CRT / VHS Distortion
It's Rewind Time
Tiny Screen
You Were the Villain
Annoying Narrator - A voice constantly insults the player for playing badly
Sloth Mode - Every action has a delay before it happens
MS Paint Only - All Artwork must be made using MS Paint


Submissions(45)

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Browser playable (15)
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Windows (20)
macOS (1)
Linux (1)
Android (1)

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Puzzle
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Card Game
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This game feels familiar… maybe too familiar.
Shooter
Getting Over It but it's College Game Jams
Platformer
A boomer shooter game for FCJ8
Shooter
Olli's Legacy 2 this was asked for. Blame yourself :D
Action
Fiktiivinen dekkaritarina
Visual Novel
Journey back to a memory from the good old day's christmas
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New people - bad, magic stick - fix
Action
Submission for Finnish College Jam #8 "The Good Old Times"
Small game for the Finnish College Jam.
https://youtu.be/sN2rBcy3ad4
Fighting
Remember the past
A survival dating simulator
Visual Novel
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small skating game
When it was more possible to get a software engineering job
Simulation
Videogame
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Once a master of death, now a humble gardener. But the darkness never truly leaves...
Survival
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Your average datanome experience
Platformer
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Shooter
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Try to close all the tabs and windows so you can close your computer and go to bed
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Adventure
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Story of a man born in the 60s
Platformer
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For the Finnish College jam 8
Visual Novel
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Action
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Interactive Fiction