Retro Game Jam 2025 @ Oulu (Hietalinna, SPR:n leirikeskus, Vaaskiventie 10, Oulu, Finland)
24.-26.10.2025
Sponsored by The Finnish Game Developers’ Association and IGDA Oulu
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This is primarily an on-site game jam. You are welcome to jam via Discord too, but we do not stream the opening ceremony or organize team building on Discord. Submissions are open for everyone on Itch.
Retro Game Jam is for everyone interested in developing new games for older hardware. No prior experience on retro development is required, but we encourage to do some research on the platform of your choice before the jam.
There will be a selection of retro consoles with development tools available and of course you are welcome to bring your own. Mentoring help for getting started is available.
The jam will have a theme revealed on the spot. You can come alone or as a team. There will be short brainstorming and team forming session at the beginning. The jam site is open for jamming around the clock. You are welcome to sleep on premises.
Please tell us if you have any special needs regarding movability, allergies etc. Please do not hesitate to ask anything from us! Everyone has access to the following:
- Working space (table, chair, internet etc.)
- Selection of retro consoles & televisions
- Workshop / introduction to development hardware
- Mentoring help for getting started
Organizers: Samuli and Borb
Discord server: https://discord.gg/FEgkQUJ8kV
Sign up: https://forms.gle/mpsL3qCZMUXiqdXY9
List of hardware available for jammers by organizers:
- Nintendo Game Boy / Game Boy Color with SD card reader
- Nintendo Entertainment System with Mapper30 flash cart (NesMaker)
- Nintendo Famicom with SD card reader
- Nintendo Super Famicom with SD card reader
- Nintendo Virtual Boy with USB game cart
- Nintendo 64 with SD card reader
- Nintendo Wii
- Sega Game Gear with SD card reader
- Sega Mega Drive / Master System with SD card reader
- Sega Saturn with SD card reader
- Sega Dreamcast with SSD
- Sony Playstation 1 with SD card reader
- Sony PocketStation
- NEC PC-Engine with SD card reader
- Neo Geo Pocket with SD card reader
- WonderSwan with USB game cart
- Vectrex with SD card reader
- MSX with CF card reader
- Ouya
- Oscilloscope with PC connectors
- CRT televisions
Please ping Samuli in the Discord server to make sure your platform of choice is brought to the jamming site. We'll do our best to bring everything, but platforms we know people are using for sure are prioritized.
Previous jams:
https://itch.io/jam/retro-game-jam-2024/entries