IMPORTANT TO KNOW: Hi everyone. Since last month, I posted this game jam and it was never listed on the game jam calendar. I reached out to support, received my ticket, a mod then told me to “wait for the admins to review it.” However, I discovered that some people on the same situation have been waiting for six months with zero results. The same mod advised me to promote my game jam here. So, I decided to post it anyway. Let's celebrate this pride month where no one has to give us permission to imagine and create something beautiful together. I won’t give up and I will continue raising my voice for all of us because this game jam is OURS NOT THEIRS.
Against all the odds and no matter where the limitations come from, we'll keep promoting because our colors keep us together. Love you all.
Join the Queer Communist Game Jam, an international online game jam organized independently from Cuba, without government or institutional support. The jam is dedicated to experimental games, interactive works and playable prototypes that imagine queer, collective, anti-capitalist and non-normative futures.
Rather than focusing only on finished games, this jam invites participants to use games as a space for imagination, solidarity, critique and experimentation. We are interested in works that explore queer life, collective care, class struggle, memory, desire, chosen families, rural and peripheral experiences, post-capitalist dreams, failure, tenderness and rage.
The jam welcomes polished games, rough prototypes, visual novels, interactive poems, tabletop games, playable archives, text games and unfinished but meaningful attempts. Anyone can participate, with or without previous experience, and all accepted submissions will become part of a shared online archive hosted through the itch.io jam page.
Participants may respond to the main theme or to one or more of these optional prompts:
- Collective care
- Abolition of work
- Chosen family
- Queer rural memory
- Love after capitalism
- The archive as a weapon
- Ghosts of failed revolutions
- Bodies that refuse productivity
- Games as mutual aid
- The future belongs to the tired
The theme can be approached politically, emotionally, humorously, poetically, critically or experimentally. Participants are encouraged to interpret it freely.
At the moment, the jam does not have official prizes, funding or institutional support. However, we are open to building a small pool of community-based support for participants. If you are an individual, collective, organization, platform, publisher, school, studio or cultural space and would like to offer something to participants, please contact us through Discord.
- Your submission must respond to the theme or prompt of the jam.
- You can work alone or in a team.
- You can use any engine, tool or format.
- Previously made assets are allowed if you have the legal right to use them.
- You may start from an old idea, but the submitted work should be created or significantly transformed during the jam period.
- Submissions must not include racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist or fascist content.
- NSFW content must be clearly marked.
- Participants keep full ownership of their work.
- The organizers may share screenshots, trailers, links, titles and creator names for promotion, documentation and archival purposes, always crediting the creators.
- Late submissions may be accepted for the archive.
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We are looking for LGBTQIA+, queer, leftist, experimental and community-based streamers who would like to support the jam by playing and sharing submitted games. This can be done through livestreams, short videos, recorded gameplay, community showcases, interviews with participants or informal reactions to the projects created during the jam.
The goal is not to create a competitive showcase, but to help the games reach more people and give visibility to creators working from queer, anti-capitalist and experimental perspectives.
Streamers interested in collaborating can contact us through Discord.
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The Queer Communist Game Jam is currently looking for people, collectives, institutions, platforms, studios, schools, publishers, cultural spaces and community organizations that want to support the project.
Support can take many forms. We welcome help with communication, streaming, writing, translation, moderation, workshops, documentation, mentorship, community outreach, institutional connections, tools, software keys, funding, micro-grants, scholarships, prizes or other opportunities for participants.
This section is an invitation to anyone who feels connected to the spirit of the jam and wants to help build a more accessible, experimental and collective space for queer, anti-capitalist and non-normative game-making.
The jam is organized independently from Cuba, without institutional funding, and any form of support can make a real difference.
If you want to collaborate, offer resources, sponsor a prize, stream submitted games, organize an activity, write about the jam or connect us with a community, please contact us through Discord.
