Game Jam Organiser, Finnish Game Jam
Julia Rässa joined FGJ (Finnish Game Jam) in 2019 as the Code of Conduct lead. Her most notable achievement is founding and organising Pride Game Jam Helsinki from 2020 to 2022. Professionally, Julia is a level designer at Rovio, and previously collaborated with Lizard Hazard Games to release LoveBug, a dating sim about game jams.
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The postmortem of starting a big brain new event in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic – and how and why it became a thing anyway! Julia talks about the mishaps and successes of combining human rights, game development and just a really bad sleeping schedule.