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Welcome to 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 making game reviews on our socials with the help of our Instagram partners that increase the views of your games to an audience of approximately 333k followers. So YES, your game could reach a huge audience! It will not get stuck here. Don't waste this opportunity. Also, we will create reels and game trailers of some games for you to share as a gift on your own socials. We'd like to offer more, but step by step, my dear comrades! And... We will promote this game jam and all that you make throughout the year and present some of your works to galleries and exhibitions. Kinda like we want to try our best as a publisher.


  1. Your submission must respond to the theme or prompt of the jam.
  2. You can work alone or in a team.
  3. You can use any engine, tool or format.
  4. Previously made assets are allowed if you have the legal right to use them.
  5. You may start from an old idea, but the submitted work should be created or significantly transformed during the jam period.
  6. Submissions must not include racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist or fascist content.
  7. NSFW content must be clearly marked.
  8. Participants keep full ownership of their work.
  9. The organizers may share screenshots, trailers, links, titles and creator names for promotion, documentation and archival purposes, always crediting the creators.
  10. 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. Streamers interested in collaborating can contact us through Discord.


Who is organizing this game jam?
This game jam is organized by Héctor Almeida, a Cuban filmmaker, film editor and artist whose work explores family memory, notions of home, queer identity, personal archives and experimental forms of storytelling. His practice moves between documentary cinema, audiovisual experimentation, community-based archival work and, more recently, experimental games. He is currently developing El niño de fuego que no pudo volar, an autobiographical art game about queer childhood, rural memory and family archives in Cuba. The jam is being organized from Cuba, independently, without institutional funding and with many material, technological and economic limitations.
Is this game jam affiliated with any institution, government or political organization?
No. This game jam is an independent community-based project. It is not affiliated with any institution, government, political party or organization that promotes communism or any related ideology. The title and theme of the jam are used as a creative, artistic and critical framework for experimental game-making, not as institutional, governmental or party propaganda.
Can I submit a paid game?
During the jam, submissions should be free to play so that participants and visitors can access them without barriers. After the jam ends, creators are free to decide what they want to do with their games, including making them paid, donation-based, private, expanded, removed, or released elsewhere. Creators keep full ownership of their work.
Can I use AI tools?
No. Games created with the use of AI will be removed from the jam.


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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.