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 2025, 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 26 and by jamming all weekend until June 28, 2026! 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 Next Games office in Aleksanterinkatu 9 A, 00100 Helsinki - and the online base being our Discord server (participants registered through Eventbrite received an invite link).
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 this year is OLDIE BUT GOLDY
All Times in Eastern European Summer Time (EEST, UTC+3).
FRIDAY, JUNE 26
Important: No jammers should arrive before 16:30.
16:30 Doors open for jammers
16:30–17:30 Registrations at venue and on Discord
17:00 Opening Ceremony + Safety and Code of Conduct
17:15 Keynote speech
17:30–18:00 Guest speaker
18:00–19:00 Theme announcement + team building exercises
19:00 Jamming begins
Evening Pizza dinner served
22:00 "Good night, jammers"
SATURDAY, JUNE 27 — PRIDE + JAMMING
10:00 Pre-Pride Breakfast — additional guests from Better Games Together (BGT) companies join
11:30–15:00 Helsinki Pride Parade
15:00–16:00 Late lunch break
16:00–18:00 Midpoint presentations
18:00 Evening snack (vegan sushi)
22:00 "Good night, jammers"
SUNDAY, JUNE 28 — LAUNCH DAY
15:00 Soft upload deadline
15:30 Talks
16:00 Hard upload deadline / prelaunch — no further edits
16:00 Demos of games
17:00 Closing ceremony
18:00 Jam ends :')
Pride Game Jam is not a competition, but we invite you to submit your game here at itch.io at the end of the event so that fellow jammers can try your game. 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 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 hard deadline is at 16.00 on Sunday but it would be better if you could submit by 15:00. Please start submission earlier during the day.
No submissions match your filter
