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Annakaisa KultimaFounderFinnish Game Jam

Dr. Annakaisa Kultima is a veteran game jammer and organizer. She has been running over 50 game jams since 2010 and is a founding member of the award-winning Finnish Game Jam organization. She led the Global Game Jam theme committee 2010-2012 and literally gave her heart to the global jamming community in 2012 when the theme of the year was an audio clip of her heart beating. Dr. Kultima acted as a president of Finnish Game Jam organization 2013-2020 and led multiple experimental and inspiring game jams, such as Survival Mode, Bus Jam, Quantum Game Jam, Sami Game Jam and Pikku Kakkonen Game Jam. During her period of presidency, she also founded Jam Jam Festival, which brings together game jam enthusiasts around the world. Kultima has participated in several game jams herself, for instance Train Jam 2014 and Train Jam 2016, 0h Game Jam, Retro Jam Helsinki, and multiple Global Game Jams. In the jams, she mostly works in graphics roles, but has also used a sewing machine while jamming. As a day job, she has been studying game jams as a phenomenon, focusing a lot in Finnish game jams, claiming that Finnish jam scene is the most studied game jam community in the world. Currently, Dr. Kultima is enjoying her life as a university lecturer utilizing game jams also in her teaching. She exhibits jam games and other playful experiences in her art gallery, Kumma.

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Connecting the Global Game Development Community

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