Games Now! Game Jam series is back!
Games Now! is an open lecture series on trends in game development and design. Our community is open for anyone to attend, including our game jams! This year, our game jams move to hybrid mode and we are all about international teams and mixing game schools! The jam is held on both Games Now! Discord server and Otaniemi campus as well as at campuses of our collaborating schools. The jam kicks off on Tuesday, 7th November, and we have a first deadline (gameplay videos) on Friday 10th. The final deadline for the games is on the Sun 12th.
As the jam is open for anyone to attend (we are all students at the school of life), invite all your friends. The best jam games (there will be time to polish) will be exhibited at an art gallery in Helsinki, on April/May 2024.
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Register to the GN! Game Jam - Autumn 2023: https://forms.gle/yV9cps53K6KJSGPx9
Join our GN! Discord server: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
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We continue our series of online jams with multicultural collaboration with jammers from various countries around the world. You can join the jammer matchmaking to meet new people and explore your own creative powers together! The jam will be jointly held in collaboration with the GN! network's universities and schools. Check the full list here: https://gamesnow.aalto.fi/schools/
You can join the jam regardless of whether you are enrolled in any game school - the jam is open to anyone and free of charge! We welcome everyone who loves games and is interested in cross-cultural jamming.
The jam will be kicked off on the 7th of November, 2023 as part of the GN! Event Week program at: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi. At the kick-off, we will introduce the rules of the jam and reveal the inspirational theme.
####### Requirements and Theme ########################
The technology of the jam games is not restricted, we welcome all digital platforms as well as all forms of analog games .
The jam will have an inspirational theme, which will be revealed on the 7th November 2023.
All jam teams are required to be completely transparent on which tools, resources and software were used in making the games. You can choose the license of your game, as long as it allows playing the jam version of the game for free.
The best games of this jam have a possibility to be showcased at Kumma Gallery in Helsinki in April/May 2024.
Eligibility for the art gallery showcase:
- Your game was submitted to GN! Game Jam Autumn 2023 or GN! Game Jam Spring 2024 according to the deadlines
- Your game page includes a gameplay video
- Your game was made in a team with at least 1 student from the GN! Network schools
- Prioriz teams with at least 2 members from different GN! Network schools
- We give bonus weight for the teams that worked with several time zones and/or language barriers
##################### Schedule #####################
##### Before the Jam #####
- Matchmaking team announcement: From 3rd November 2023 @GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
- GN! Event Week lectures: 6th November 2023, 7th November 2023, 10:00 -16:00 (EET) / 17:00 - 23:00 (KST, JST) / 9:00 - 15:00 (CET) / 8:00 – 14:00 (UTC) / 3:00 - 9:00 (EST) / 0:00 - 6:00 (PST) @ https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi & Espoo, Finland
##### The Jam #####
- Jam kick-off (theme reveal and brainstorming): 7th November 2023, 14:00 -16:00 (EET) / 22:00 - 24:00 (KST, JST) / 13:00 - 15:00 (CET) / 12:00 – 14:00 (UTC) / 7:00 - 9:00 (EST) / 4:00 - 6:00 (PST) @ https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi & Espoo, Finland
- Jam help desk: 8th November 2023, 10:00 -11:00 (EET) / 9:00 - 10:00 (CET) / 8:00 – 9:00 (UTC) / 17:00 - 18:00 (KST, JST) @GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
- GN! Game Jam Stream @ https://www.twitch.tv/gamesnowaaltofi & Espoo, Finland
- Wednesday 8th November, 2023 13:00 -15:00 (EET) / 20:00 - 22:00 (KST, JST) / 12:00 - 14:00 (CET) / 11:00 – 13:00 (UTC) / 6:00 - 9:00 (EST) / 3:00 - 5:00 (PST)
- Thursday 9th November 2023, 13:00 -15:00 (EET) / 20:00 - 22:00 (KST, JST) / 12:00 - 14:00 (CET) / 11:00 – 13:00 (UTC) / 6:00 - 9:00 (EST) / 3:00 - 5:00 (PST)
- Progress reports and help throughout the jam, at GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX
##### Deadlines #####
- Gameplay video Submission deadline: 10th November 2023, 12:00 (EET) / 19:00 (KST, JST) / 11:00 (CEST) / 10:00 (UTC) / 5:00 (EST) / 2:00 (PST) at GN! Discord: https://discord.gg/YsgagHX (#game-jam-videos channel)
- Final deadline: 12th November 2023, 22:00 (EET) / 21:00 (CEST) / 20:00 (UTC) / 15:00 (EST) / 12:00 (PST) / 13rd November 2023, 5:00 (KST, JST), at itch.io
##### Exhibition #####
- Jam Exhibition: April 2024 (detailed time and date TBA) @Kumma Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
##################### Jam Hosts #####################
Annakaisa Kultima, Aalto University, Finland
Annakaisa Kultima is lecturer in interactive media at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Finland. She has been teaching and studying game design and development since 2006 in several universities in Finland and Sweden as well as traveled as a visiting lecturer around the world including universities in US, China, Denmark, South Korea and Japan. Her research is concentrating on game development cultures, creativity, game industry trends, as well as game jams. Kultima’s PhD dissertation “Game Design Praxiology” examined the multitude of issues of understanding ‘games as created’ including game jam cultures. Kultima is also an active member of the game ecosystem in Finland and internationally: she is working as a judge in several game competitions, running and participating in game jams (around 50 game jams so far!) as well as curating exhibitions on games. She has been leading Global Game Jam theme committee and been the regional organizer and site organizer for Global Game Jam for many years. She is also a member of the founding team of The Finnish Museum of Games as well as the co-founder and the head of non-profit organization Finnish Game Jam between 2013-2020. At Aalto University, Annakaisa works on the Games Now! open lecture series carefully picking the most interesting topics and speakers to the series.
Solip Park Aalto University, Finland
Solip is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture - Department of Arts and Media. Her current research interest is focused on digital game production, work culture, and immigrants/expats. Solip is the author and artist of "Game Expats Story" comic series, while currently acting as a member of the board and Graphics/Arts Team Lead at Finnish Game Jam Ry and Management Team Lead at the Korean Student Association in Finland (KOSAFI Ry). She is working with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (South) in Finland, leading their "Kor-Fin Esports Festival" and "Kor-Fin Special Game Week" projects - connecting game devs in Finland and South Korea. Solip was once the first South Korean to acquire Finland's startup entrepreneur residence permit in 2018. She was one of the founding members of Nexon Computer Museum - the first permanent museum in East Asia dedicated to the history of computer and video games, located in South Korea.
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