Pride Game Jam Helsinki -- is a three day event 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 2024, and is organized by Finnish Game Jam ry in partnership with Helsinki Pride ry. 

This year we start by having a talks on the June 28 and by jamming all weekend until June 30, 2024! 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 skill level and background!

The jam is hosted in hybrid mode, with the physical site being at Pelitalo Sture in Helsinki - an wonderful and welcoming venue, where games are made in a safe space throughout the year, and the online base being our Discord server (participants registered through Eventbrite received an invite link).

Theme

Yes, we will have a theme! Although the core theme of the event is LGBTQ+ experiences, we'll have a special theme to make the games of this third Pride Game Jam HKI unique from those in years to come! The theme for the jam will be revealed by 19:00 on Friday during the opening ceremony stream and added here.

Preliminary Programme:

All Times in Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3). The streams will happen on the Pride Game Jam Discord server

28.6. FRIDAY START

16:00 - 17:00 Registrations at the venue and on Discord 

17:00 - 17:10 Opening Ceremony (stream) +

Safety and Code of Conduct

17:15 - 17:30 Keynote speech 

17:30 - 18:00 Guest speaker

18:00 - 18.30 Guest speaker 

18.30 - 19:00 Theme Announcement + Team building exercises! (stream in Discord)

19:00 Jammers, start your engines! 

22:00 Good night Jammers!

29.6. SATURDAY PRIDE + JAMMING

10:00 Good morning Jammers! + coffee time together?

11:00 Pride Parade FGJ block 

13:00 - 13:30 Guest speaker

15:00 - 16:00 Late lunch break

16:00 - 17:45 Let's relax and play some games.

18:00 Evening snack

19:00 Mid-point presentation!

22:00 Good night Jammers 

30.6. SUNDAY LAUNCH DAY

10:00 Good morning Jammers!

11:00 Snack break and broadcast speaker 

11:30 Jammer Interviews! Apply?

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch break

15:00 Deployment! (start uploading your games)

15:30 Guest speaker 

16:00 Prelaunch! (Upload deadline! + Final edits)

16:30 LAUNCH! —> Closing Ceremony with final game presentations!

17:30 - 18:00 Jam ends!

18:00 Cleaning the venue

Game Submissions and License 

The Pride Game Jam #5 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! 

As the main submission for our ending ceremony, we want you to make a short video (60 seconds) - 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. Please also note, that the video needs to be SFW, even if your submission is not.

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 other 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 board game, 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 is 16:00 Sunday, but please start submissions already at 15:00. It is fairly simple to do, just: upload it by making a game project on your account, and then submit that project to the Pride Jam.