IGDA Lahti July BBQ

Join IGDA Lahti grill party on the 10th of July. IGDA Lahti will provide grilled sausages to the event. You are also welcome to bring your own foods to grill. The event will take place at Pikku Vesijärvi grilling spot next to Kioski Pikkuvesku (event address: Kariniemenpuistotie 12). There's a parking area near the kiosk and the grill place.

If you have allergies, please inform them when you sign up.

NOTICE!
As this is an outdoor event and we can't control the weather, the venue place
might change to indoors. We will be notifying all attendees with changes as soon as possible, if the need comes!

Reminder: IGDA Finland uses the Finnish Game Industry Code of Conduct!

Where:
Pikku Vesijärvi Grilling Spot (next to Kioski Pikkuvesku)
Kariniemenpuistotie 12, 15110
When:
On Friday, July 10th, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/july26bbq/

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti

Edit: Sorry to inform that due to bad weather and low number of participants event is cancelled. We will have upcoming BBQ events on 10.7 and 7.8 so stay tuned for those!

IGDA Lahti June BBQ

Join IGDA Lahti grill party on the 12th of June. IGDA Lahti will provide grilled sausages to the event. You are also welcome to bring your own foods to grill. The event will take place at Pikku Vesijärvi grilling spot next to Kioski Pikkuvesku (event address: Kariniemenpuistotie 12). There's a parking area near the kiosk and the grill place.

If you have allergies, please inform them when you sign up.

NOTICE!
As this is an outdoor event and we can't control the weather, the venue place
might change to indoors. We will be notifying all attendees with changes as soon as possible, if the need comes!

Reminder: IGDA Finland uses the Finnish Game Industry Code of Conduct!

Where:
Pikku Vesijärvi Grilling Spot (next to Kioski Pikkuvesku)
Kariniemenpuistotie 12, 15110
When:
On Friday, June 12th, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/june26bbq/

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti

IGDA Lahti Finnish Game Awards watch party!

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti #finnishgameawards #neogames

Finnish Game Awards is happening right now! Follow the stream from: https://www.youtube.com/live/oBdFR-ePgYc

Congrats for Emma Vantaa, IGDA Lahti volunteer and Digi hub lead for winning IGDA Finland Lifetime Award!

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The Finnish Game Awards 2026 Watch Party

Join us for The Finnish Game Awards 2026 Watch Party on 21.5 18:00-21:00 at StartHub in Lahti! Stream starts at 19:00.

Finnish Game Awards 2026: https://neogames.fi/the-best-finnish-games-in-the-world-will-be-awarded-at-the-finnish-game-awards-2026-gala-in-may/
Details where StartHub is: https://www.starthub.fi/en/contact/#

The Finnish Game Awards 2026 gala will honor the best Finnish games of the last year and celebrate the Finnish games industry.
The nominees for Finnish Game of the Year 2025 are Amistech Games (My Winter Car), Channel37 (The Last Caretaker), Cornfox & Brothers (Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon), Hanki Games (Sledders), Kimmo Factor (Sektori), MiTale (Willow Guard), Next Games (Puzzled), Notovia & Dreamloop Games (I’m on Observation Duty 8), and Zaibatsu (Squishmallows Match). Short game descriptions and links can be found at the end of the release.

If you have questions contact: wawethewaras (Mika Savolainen) in IGDA Lahti Discord (https://discord.gg/328zTZfy9z) or email [email protected].

Event follows code of conduct of IGDA Finland and Finnish Game Industry:

IGDA Finland: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56114021e4b0f085582d7eff/t/5e41aaf212c7921f1a45376f/1581361907416/IGDA+Finland+Code+of+Conduct+2020+(1).pdf
Finnish Game Industry: https://neogames.fi/the-finnish-game-industry-code-of-conduct/

WHERE:
StartHub, Mukkulankatu 19, 15210 Lahti
WHEN:
Thursday 21th May, 18:00-21:00

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/mayfga26/

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti #finnishgameawards #neogames

IGDA Lahti May Meetup

Join us for free form hangout in Fellmannia. There is no planned program, but come chat with other game developers or share your demos. Fellmannia also has board games that we can play.

Event is organized by IGDA Lahti in Fellmanni-talo. Doors open at 17:00. Event closes about 21:00.

Event follows code of conduct of IGDA Finland and Finnish Game Industry.

WHERE:
Fellmanni-talo, Kirkkokatu 27, 15140 Lahti
WHEN:
Saturday 9th May, 17:00-21:00

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/May2026/

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti #lahti

We had a fun event of playing different games. Thank you all for joining and presenters for their games.

Games that where playable:
"Kalewala, The Tale of Sampo" -board game by Tuomas Mansikka (Developer) + Annukka Repo (Art) + Sami Styrman (Publisher) SamsaGames
"Defenders of Kaiju Island" - board game by Jussi Kenkkilä
"Pirate Fight" -card game by Otto Schmitz

Other games are still work of progress, but Kalewala, the Tale of Sampo is available at: https://www.nukkarepo.com/taleofsampo

Defenders of Kaiju Island might be available to playing in the Ropecon 2026!

#lahti #gamedev #boardgames #cardgames #peliala #igda #igdalahti #kalewalataleofsampo #defendersofkaijuisland #piratefight

IGDA Lahti March Meetup - Board Games

IGDA Lahti is not only about video games! Join us for evening of new card and board games!

Games to try out:
- "Kalewala, The Tale of Sampo" -board game by Annukka Repo (Art) + Sami Styrman (Publisher) SamsaGames
- "Defenders of Kaiju Island" - board game by Jussi Kenkkilä
- "Pirate Fight" -card game by Otto Schmitz

Event is organized by IGDA Lahti in Fellmanni-talo. Doors open at 17:00. Event closes about 21:00. Notice that this event is on Saturday not on Friday like we usually have our events.

If you have questions email: [email protected].

WHERE:
Fellmanni-talo, Kirkkokatu 27, 15140 Lahti
WHEN:
Saturday 7th March, 17:00-21:00

Sign up now: https://pretix.eu/igdalahti/february2026/

#lahti #gamedev #boardgames #cardgames #peliala #igda #igdalahti #kalewalataleofsampo #defendersofkaijuisland #piratefight

FGJ Lahti had 12 games created! Go checkout them in the GGJ site.

https://globalgamejam.org/group/31119/games

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti #lahti #fgj26 #fgj #ggj #finnishgamejam #globalgamejam

IGDA Lahti provided snacks for the FGJ Lahti SoSA!

Hope you are enjoyed the game jam. If you got the spark of game development and want to keep learning more join as volunteer in IGDA Lahti: https://forms.gle/8dhH3a94xJ7KX2Wq8

IGDA Lahti is organization under IGDA Finland. We organize meetings about once a month with varying topics from stories from game developers or more chill meeting like our summer BBQ events. Goal of IGDA Lahti is to increase interest in game development in Lahti and support local developers.

We are constantly looking for more volunteers to help plan and organize events. You can also use your skills or if you want to practice doing something like social media management, contacting speakers or what ever you like to do!

With IGDA Lahti you can get contacts with people in the game industry and get to meet new people. You can also get free or cheaper tickets for bigger events like Pocket Gamer. You also get to join bonanza event that is a meeting with all IGDA Volunteers around the Finland!

#gamedev #peliala #igda #igdafinland #igdalahti #lahti #fgj26 #fgj #ggj #finnishgamejam #globalgamejam