Games and Jams
Games
Lost Memories 2018
Lost Memories is a game made in 48 hours for the Sami Game Jam 2018 in Utsjoki, Finland. This game was made on the themes ”Living outside Samiland” and ”Forgotten Memories”.
The game explores the things that a Sami person living in a big city might miss. It also let players travel through a portal from a city apartment to the open lands of Utsjoki. It lets you bring items over from either world. Once you use the portal, it slowly shrinks and you have to make a choice of where you want to be.
Play this with any SteamVR device, in roomscale (min. 3×3 meters play space).
Made by:
Horatiu Roman
Milan Grajetzki
Shailesh Prabhu
Julia Rässa
Mikael Latva
Outi Laiti
Jođus - On The Move 2018
Jođus is a game about balancing between things: contemporary and traditional, different life choices and their consequences. The game was done at the Sámi Game Jam. I was one of the cultural consultants whose stories live on in Jođus.
Team Members
Sabine Harrer – design, hardware;
Tatu Laine – programming;
Sylvia Smatanová- art, animation;
Milja Guttorm – idea, Sami expertise;
Chris Hamilton- interviews, editing;
Elie Abraham – sounds and music.
Pedar Jalvi demo 2017
Pedar Jalvi demo project was finished in 2017. It was developed by Zaibatsu Interactive, in collaboration with the Municipality of Utsjoki, the Finnish National Archives, and Finnish Sámi Parliament
Events
Siida Game Jam 2026
SIIDA GAME JAM was held at the Sámi Museum Siida. The three-day event took place from September 3–5, 2026, bringing together creative professionals, students, and hobbyists.
Utopia Games Jam 2026
Utopia Games Jam was a 2 hour jam in Summer School organized in collaboration with University of Bologna Department of the Arts, University of Helsinki, Jagellonian University and Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Fair Play Jam 2024
Fair Play Jam is an inclusive game development event (Oct 4–6, 2024, Campus Gotland) where participants of all skill levels create games in a collaborative environment focused on exploring anti-racism, inclusivity, and cultural awareness through play.
Imagining Indigenous Worlds with Unity 2023
In this 5-day workshop, participants will be introduced to the concept of environmental storytelling (the art of using spaces and objects to tell stories) and its importance for crafting narratives and evoking emotion using the medium of video games. Participants will learn the basics of Unity (unity.com), an industry-standard video game development engine, to imagine and create their very own virtual worlds from Indigenous perspectives.
Saami Game Jam 2018
Sami Game Jam was a five-day game development event where Sámi people and experienced game developers came together in Utsjoki, Finland and created games on Sámi culture and phenomena.
Nuorten peliohjelmointikurssi 2017
Game programming course for adolescents at Utsjoki in collaboration with the University of Jyväskylä and the municipality of Utsjoki.