We're living in shitty times, but there's room for optimism. Capitalism is collapsing; that much is obvious. The bad news is that it won't simply disappear. Like a final boss about to be defeated, the ruling class is deploying its full arsenal and fighting back. They are more dangerous than ever. Extremely dangerous.
Sadly, it's more than possible that the fucking psychopaths who govern us are trying to drag everybody into another world war. If that happens, capitalism will complete another cycle, reset itself, and win one more time (we'll have to wait another century to face the final boss again). But if we stop the war by protesting wildly right now, capitalism will continue to crumble on its own, and we all win.
We can't let it catch us by surprise; let's not be the frog in the boiling water. The best thing is we don't need to tackle the technical complexities of a revolution (for now); just stop the escalation of war. We must rise to the occasion. Please organize yourselves: neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city, country by country.
If they want war, they'll get war.
But it won't be the war they expect!
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Hi and welcome to the FUCK CAPITALISM JAM 2026.
You can check out the 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions to get inspired.
If you haven't participated before, keep reading to see how the jam works.
The theme is “FUCK CAPITALISM”, as always.
It's very important to remind everybody that this jam is open to any kind of artistic creation (simply use the "Classification - What are you uploading?" selector when creating your project page).
Submit a videogame, a digital narrative experience, an ezine, an interactive meme, a board game, a comic, a children's picture book, a manifesto, a poem, an anthem, posters or stickers, make playful hardware or whatever you want ***BUT*** include on it a high dose of sharp criticism, hurtful satire, documented atrocities, pure rage, awesome alternatives and/or day to day tricks to fight against rampant capitalism in creative ways.
The jam will be ranked with a single “ANTI-CAPITALIST POWER” criteria. When the jam ends, all the participants will have until June 15th to vote for the projects that are most powerful and effective for the anti-capitalist movement. Please don't see it as a competition, but as democracy at its best!
◆ Stick to the theme “FUCK CAPITALISM”.
â—† You can start making things from now on BUT your project page must be published on itch.io during the jam dates (that is, during May 2026). We do this to prevent spam, please contact us if you already had your project page published.
â—† Paid projects are not allowed (see FAQs).
â—† The use of gen AI trained with stolen work is not allowed (see FAQs).
â—† Give credit appropriately if you use third-party assets.
â—† Be kind to everybody taking part in the jam.
We are sorry but projects (or people) not respecting the rules could be banned.
If you’re a streamer and want to take part please add a topic or send us a DM on Twitter or Bluesky.
Be aware that we aren’t going to manage which streamers experience which projects. They will be free to choose the ones they like the most or to change their mind and not play/read/listen anything.
We believe in the power of self-organized communities so we're not coordinating any in-person or online locations to allow interaction between teams.
However, feel free to do it yourselves, and if you want to put a link here for more people to join, please add a topic or send us a DM on Twitter or Bluesky.
Do you (the organizers) belong to any anti-capitalist movement? We're just regular people worried about the current status quo and want to use our creative force to make capitalism cry (a little bit).
Paid projects are not allowed but... what about "pay what you want" or community copies? The idea behind this rule is that everybody can play the games without paywalls. The main goal of the jam is to spread the anti-capitalist discourse and payments go directly against this goal. It would be better if you make other people lives easier during the voting week by removing additional steps to download your project. That said, if you submit "pay what you want" games or give community copies, please be clear on the description: (1) Mention that the project is a submission for the "Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026" (you can remove it after the jam). (2) Explain that users can pay zero or ask for a free copy to avoid misunderstandings (not everybody knows how itch.io works). A lot of people try to use the jam to simply sell their games and, as our time is limited, we will probably ban games that are not clear about their intentions. Of course, feel free to do whatever you want with your game after the jam. However, if you make the itch.io project a paid game someday, it would be nice if you remove its submission from the jam. Don't take this as an obligation, but rather as a good practice aligned with the spirit of the jam.
The use of gen AI trained with stolen work is not allowed but... how will we moderate it? Since we don't have enough time to check project by project or to have long debates with participants about if an image or music was made by humans or not, we will probably end adding a comment like "various people reported this project makes use of gen AI" in case of ambiguity. Thank you for your understanding.
More FAQs to come. You can add a topic or send us a DM on Twitter or Bluesky for any question, comment or suggestion.
The organizers are not responsible for the content submitted to this jam or anything happening out of our control. Nevertheless, we’ll try to do our best to resolve any issue that may occur.
Thanks to YOU for taking part and… FUCK CAPITALISM!!!