Finnish Game Jam 2011

Global Game Jam

Global Game Jam is a worldwide event, in which several Game Jams are organized all over the world at the same time. The event lasts 48 hours, starting on January 28th at 17:00 GMT+13 (06:00 EST) in New Zealand and then at 17:00 local time in each time zone. All Global Game Jam sites have the same theme and the same series of constraints, which are revealed just before the beginning of the jamming.

The first GGJ was held in 2009 with over 1600 participants in 23 countries, producing 370 games and GGJ 2010 the number of participants increased to over 4300 with about 900 finished games. In 2010, the FGJ groups produced 25 games, from which Play Dead 2: Growling of the Dead has risen to one of the most popular games of the whole GGJ 2010! In January 2011 the game’s page had collected over 7300 views being the fifth most viewed game among all of the year’s uploaded games.

GGJ is a volunteer run organization, created in collaboration between Susan Gold, Gorm Lai and Ian Schrieber. Do not hesitate to visit the GGJ website where you can find more information about the GGJ and browse and download any of the games from last two game jams.