Games Now! Exhibition 2024 showcased six selected games from the GN! Game Jams held during the academic year 2023–24. Game jams were gatherings where creatives came together to develop games based on a specific theme. The themes for the GN! Game Jam Autumn 2023 and Spring 2024 were ‘missing’ and ‘messing’. The games in this exhibition explored these themes in various ways. In Chaos Cats, the theme ‘messing’ inspired a multiplayer game featuring mischievous cats. Strangers, also based on the theme ‘messing’, mediated the feeling of how easily one’s mind could become disordered when suffering from anxiety and panic attacks. Folamh, addressing the theme ‘missing’, explored the heavily stigmatized issues of gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. In Limiter Not Found, parts of the map go missing while the player replayed the game. Lost Radiance embodies the theme of ‘missing’ through the sudden disappearance of light in the cosmos. In At Rest, the main character long for the moments in her life when things were easy and simple. The teams behind these games consisted of students and other GN! community members from Finland, China, Japan, Ireland, and the US.

Games Now! is an open lecture series and learning community run by Aalto University. At GN!, the latest trends in the game industry are explored through lectures by international game professionals. GN! also run game jams where students from around the world came together to create games in one week. The GN! network in 2024 consisted of 17 universities and game schools from Finland, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Japan, South Korea, and the US. GN! works closely with representatives of the Finnish game industry. The judging panel for Games Now! Exhibition Week 2024 included game industry professionals Tatu Laine from Futureplay, Essi Jukkala from Supercell, Eevi Korhonen from Housemarque, and Jussi Loukiainen from Platonic Partnership.

More information about GN! is available at gamesnow.aalto.fi.