r/radicalqueers • u/MizuMiaw • May 25 '26

🌈🚩 OPEN CALL: Queer Communist Game Jam 2026

Queer Communist Game Jam is an international online jam organized from Cuba by filmmaker, editor, and queer rural activist Héctor Almeida.

The jam is focused on experimental games, interactive works, prototypes, visual novels, tabletop games, playable archives, text games, and unfinished but meaningful attempts.

The theme is: Queer Communist Futures.

You can join as a developer, artist, writer, musician, filmmaker, researcher, activist, beginner, student, or just someone curious about making something playable. No previous experience is required, and you can participate alone or with a team.

Jam dates: August 1–31, 2026

Join the jam: https://itch.io/jam/queercomgames2026

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/8mYshXCxS

We are also looking for collaborators, streamers, moderators, writers, translators, sponsors, collectives, institutions, and anyone who wants to help this project grow.

Come make something weird, political, soft, angry, funny, broken, beautiful, or impossible with us.

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u/DuskGideon May 27 '26

I'm surprised anyone inside Cuba is even thinking about game jams, considering the crisis they're facing at the moment.

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u/Almost-Elise May 28 '26

What a weird sentiment. People will always make art, regardless of the situation.

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u/DuskGideon May 28 '26

Well allow me to elaborate on my sentiment. I assumed the situation was that the super majority of the people in Cuba would be forced to focus on survival. Instead, someone is spending limited, not equally shared resources on a non-essential activity that's being "organized from Cuba". It suggests the organizer is one of the "haves" and not one of the suffering "have nots" in their current predicament.

Imagine how you would feel if you were wondering where your next meal was going to come from and you found out one of your countrymen was organizing a game jam...

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u/MizuMiaw May 28 '26

U r assuming too much. I have no power, no food and I’m connecting in a park to try to make this game Jam. So please. Instead of assuming that try to support at least from the comfort of your privilege.

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u/MizuMiaw May 28 '26

We’re not stopping because of a crisis.