For the Love of Games @ Checkpoint

For the Love of Games @ Checkpoint

So in hindsight, maybe it wasn’t really a good idea to have a non-Finnish person cover a predominantly Finnish speaking event. That said, Checkpoint is a ton of good stuff jam packed into a 2-day event.

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Finnish Game Jam Scene

Finnish Game Jam Scene

Annakaisa Kultima, Kati Alha and Timo Nummenmaa, researchers at the University of Tampere, have coauthored a paper at the Academic Mindtrek 2016 that presents a case study of Finnish Game Jam and of the community built around it. Consisting of post-event surveys collected during 2010–2016 and statistics collected from the event participant registration forms, the study provides an overview of the Finnish Game Jam scene and some suggestions for fostering similar game development ecosystems with national support schemes.

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