how LGBTQ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Ruberg, Bonnie
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- WER 53 2020
- Thesaurus
- games, video's, ontwerpers, LHBT, diversiteit, allochtonen, Verenigde Staten, Canada, interview, lijst
- Description
- Twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers, that offer a portrait of an influential community that is subverting and redefining the medium of video games by placing queerness front and center. The game makers tell about their creative practices, their politics and passions, their lives and inspirations, the challenges they face, and the ways they understand their places within the wider terrain of video game culture. Their insights go beyond typical conversations about LGBTQ representation in video games or how to improve “diversity” in digital media. Instead, they explore queer game-making practices, the politics of queer independent video games, how queerness can be expressed as an aesthetic practice, the influence of feminist art on their work, and the future of queer video games and technology.
Appendix with queer indie games to play at home or in the classroom.