Announcing the third Queer Vampire IF Jam!

This is a month-long game jam that will run from January 10 - February 20th, 2026. The goal of this jam is to create more interactive fiction games about queer vampires, focusing both on queer relationships and queer experiences, and exploring them through various vampiric narratives.

Check out our 2024 entries here, and the 2025 entries here!

🦇 🥀 🕯 🪦 🩸 JAM RULES 🩸🪦🕯🥀🦇

Your project must focus on queer characters and vampires. Relationships, romantic or platonic, as well as queer experiences, whether gay, lesbian, bisexual, ace, aro, trans and nonbinary - this is an inclusive jam. 

You can write from a human or vampire perspective (or both!) The vampire is a versatile tool, and you are not restricted to any one specific depiction of it.

This jam will accept any program/medium, so long as the work is an Interactive Fiction.

Interactive Fiction is hard to define, so in this instance as long as the game is recognizably interactive fiction - the game has a narrative focus primarily with text, and the player can interact (whether that be with direct choices, clicking through links, or allowing the player to choose how to move around and interact with the world/the game, like in bitsy) then it counts. Parsers, visual novels, choose-your-own-adventures are some of the popular examples of IF, but there are plenty that don't fall within any category, and we're not interested in trying to police a rigid definition. I suggest checking out past entries and browsing the IF tag for examples!

This jam will accept adult content as well as games covering heavy & uncomfortable topics, but please be sure to properly list trigger warnings either in-game or on the game page.

Entries that promote any kind of bigotry will not be accepted.

Games should not include any AI generated content. This includes both art and writing.

There is no language requirement; we will accept games in any language.

You can submit as many entries as you'd like.

You are allowed to start working on your project early! This is unranked and it's not a contest, this is just for fun.

Submissions open midnight, January 10th EST. They'll close February 20th at 11:59pm EST. 

A few possible resources for creating Interactive Fiction:

Twine

Ink

Ren'Py

Bitsy

Inform 7

Narrat

Choicescript

Join the jam here!

In Sanguine Veritas

Ten feet from you, ten feet and thirty years down the path, she stops. Lifts her head. You can hear her breathing. See, delirious and ecstatic, the flutter of her pulse in her bared throat. She's taken off her scarf, sweating in the frosty air, and her shoulders heave. Camphor and ambergris, the smell of the wet, dying earth. A hint of smoke, of sulfur beneath. You lick your lips, and watch her yellow eyes narrow.

Thirty years after disappearing in the night, a body finds its way home.

Content Warnings:

Blood

Plague

Iphigenia gets more than her blood sucked in this visual novel homage to the sleaziest of 1970s lesbian vampire movies.

my entry for the 2026 queer vampire game jam is up! Blood drips from the mouth of Sappho is a short kinetic eroge where even the vampire gets neck bites.

PLAY HERE

17+ Through Death We Become — An interactive fiction story about grief. [Submission to Queer Vampire Jam — Other Entries]

Years ago, your life was taken from you, stolen by the teeth of a vampire. For a long time, anger at losing all you were had festered inside, building and boiling, threatening to pour out, but you had maintained it.

Until you heard that the vampire who turned you had shown up in some state, and it all came rushing forth.

Not wanting to lose your chance at revenge, you hunt him down, but before you get to him, you wind up in a random town with a stranger who wants to help you.

7.5k words

1 human (non-binary) love interest

My visual novel for #vampjamp (Queer Vampire Jam) is out now! go check it out on itch: https://xenubinstudios.itch.io/carnival

A short story featuring the struggles between love, infatuation, and envy.

Hi! I worked on a visual novel for Queer Vampire Game Jam 2024. I helped design and create the character art for my team's game. :)