Hi and welcome to the FUCK CAPITALISM JAM 2025.

Is this your first time? Check out the 2023 and 2024 projects to have a glimpse of what's happening in May.

Keep reading to see how the jam works.

The theme is “FUCK CAPITALISM”. So simple, so broad.

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.

We have lots of friends doing activism beyond video games or art. That's why this edition we would like to add new types of projects more related to direct action. This includes everything from educational initiatives to develop critical consciousness, through organizing anti-capitalist groups or events, to sharing your amazing ideas or plans for real-world actions that can go viral and change minds.

It's enough to explain them on your project page or add a PDF to download. We want to know what you do and how you organize so that other people around the world can do the same!

If you also have friends like these, please, please, encourage them to participate in the jam.

◆ Stick to the theme “FUCK CAPITALISM”.

◆ 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 2025). We do this to prevent spam, please contact us if you already had your project page published.

◆ Paid projects are not allowed (see FAQs).

◆ The use of gen AI trained with stolen art is not allowed (see FAQs).

◆ Give credit appropriately if you use third-party assets.

◆ Be kind to everybody taking part in the jam.

We are sorry but projects (or people) not respecting the rules could be banned.

We've already started contacting streamers to enjoy your submissions from the 1st of June onwards, so a list of wild and reckless people will appear here in the next following weeks.

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 2025" (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 art is not allowed but... how will we moderate it? Ok, some things to consider here. We are totally against generative AI as used by big corps: (1) AI systems trained with stolen data from the internet then offered behind paywalls + (2) being an obscene waste of energy that further drains our planet's resources. We are not against individuals using datasets with their own artworks or public domain stuff. That's said, 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!!!

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(*) Cover cartoon by J.A. Mitchell, Appeal to Reason, December 29, 1906, based on painting by Balfour Ker.