Pride Game Jam HKI -- is a three day game jam that celebrates LGBTQ+ people by creating a safe space for expressing one's gender, sexual and romantic experience through art, music and of course games!

The event is part of Helsinki Pride Week 2020, and is organized by Finnish Game Jam ry in partnership with Helsinki Pride ry. Helsinki Pride Week is traditionally held in June -- but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it will be held in September and therefore so will Pride Game Jam HKI.

Pride Game Jam HKI is taking place on 11-13 September 2020. The event aims to educate on LGBTQ+ experiences, and help budding game devs to learn key skills in teamwork, design, and familiarize with relevant software! -- Everyone is welcome regardless of their skill level and background!

The jam is hosted at Arcade5 in the center of Helsinki as well remotely online.

Theme

Yes! Although the core theme of the event is LGBTQ+ experiences, we'll have a special theme to make the games of Pride Jam #1 unique to those in years to come! The theme for the jam will be revealed by 18:00 on Friday during the opening ceremony stream.

Theme Announced!

ESIKUVAT  //  ICONS  (Role Models? Examples?)

Discord server:

We have a Discord server to communicate on during the jam! Send a DM to Julia#2984,  Mikk#3573 or classheikki#5472 to join! 

Programme:

All times in Helsinki, Finland time zone (EEST, UTC/GMT+3):

Friday September 11th:

17:00  Jam Starts, with an opening ceremony, theme announcement, and brainstorming session prompts streamed on FGJ twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/finnishgamejam

Saturday September 12th - Educational streams:

12:00 - 12:45    Salli Loikkanen "Telling queer stories with my indie games. "  (Twitch)

15:00 - 16:00    "Gaymer Panel" discussion with Salli, Erin, Thu, Jori-Minna, Finn-Lily  (Twitch)

17:00 - 17:45    Erin Somervail "Pixel Art 101" Talk  (Twitch)

19:00        Mid-point presentation (Discord)

Sunday September 13th:

14:00 Submissions

15:00 Submissions DL

16:00 Game presentations & closing ceremony (Twitch + Discord)

Full programme and stream schedule at: Pride Game Jam HKI programme

Game Submissions and License 

 The Pride Game Jam #1 is not a competition, but we invite you to submit your game through itch.io at the end of the event so that fellow jammers can try your game! We also hope you will make a short video - of gameplay, your development process or a short presentation of your game - for the ending ceremony of the jam.

 You are free to choose the license that you release your game with, but it has to allow us, Finnish Game Jam, to showcase , share, distribute and use the playable versions of the jam games, their screenshots, and videos, freely. Please note that the game needs to adhere to the event's code of conduct.

Submit your game to our itch.io jam page as either free or pay-what-you-want. We are not asking you to publish the source code of your works.  

 If you make something else than a game during the jam, we hope you’ll share that with us as well! Itch.io works for any kind of downloadable, be it music, a PDF of a boardgame, or a short description of a LARP scenario. If you make a physical game, you’re free to get creative with documenting it.   

The upload deadline for the jam game and the gameplay video is 15:00 Sunday, but please start submissions already at 14:00. Upload by making a game project on your account, and then submit that project to the Pride Jam.

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NOTE: Please consider also joining the jam through Eventbrite; it helps us keep up with the statistics of our events and ensures you don't miss out on any crucial event info. P.S. You are not obliged to use your deadname.