Melbourne Queer Games Festival

Melbourne Queer Games Festival
MQGF 2018 banner
GenreLGBTIQ+ Game Festival
Location(s)Melbourne, Australia
Years active6
Founded2018
Websitemqgf.com.au

The Melbourne Queer Games Festival is an annual LGBT game festival held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.[1] It was founded in 2018 and is held in October as a part of the Melbourne International Games Week. It showcases video and tabletop games from around the world that feature LGBT gameplay elements[2][3]

The festival is volunteer led and in addition to appealing to the queer gaming community and raise the profile of queer games,[4] they're working toward reclaiming the phrase "gay games".[5][6]

Format

The festival publishes a showcase of games submitted, a livestream of games being played, and a series of juried awards and launched with fifty games in its inaugural year.[7][8] In 2018 it ran a "Bring It Back" event highlighting an older game, Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars.

Jury-voted awards

The Festival recognizes several categories of awards: technical, jury, bronze, silver and gold.[7][9]

Awards and nominations at the Melbourne Queer Games Festival
Year Work Author Award
2023[10] Please Be Happy Arimia Gold Medal
Funny Walk – You're So Tense!! Vi Silver Medal
two men go on a date and don't fall in love littlerat Bronze Medal
It Started With Hairs SuperBiasedGary Bronze Medal
Sporal Mimosa Echard Technical Achievement Award
2022[11] talking to my dad Hatim Benhsain Gold Medal
TAIPEI METRO QUEST Dri Chiu Tattersfield Silver Medal
Angel! Cathy Trang and Sean Wejebe Bronze Medal
Buy Hyacinths Benjamilian Swithen, Cow Children Games Bronze Medal
He Fucked the Girl Out of Me Taylor McCue Jury Award
Queer and Chill Ignacio Bustos Technical Achievement Award
Autumn Wish Violet Fairy Emerging Developer Award
2021[12] Winter Freya Campbell and Elliot Herriman Gold Award
Cover Me In Leaves Elliot Herriman Silver Medal
What's your gender? radow Bronze Medal
Minotaur Hotel MinoAnon Bronze Medal
Tong Jyun kc Technical Achievement Award
Parcels and Pollen Littlerat Emerging Developer Award
2020[13] If Found... Llaura McGree Gold Medal
spring leaves no flowers kc Silver Medal
Queering Spacetime Toto Lin Bronze Medal
Monster Sweethearts Sam Bronze Medal
Queer Olympix Day 1 - Comsmic Room Lezborado Jury Award
2019[14] Arcade Spirits Stefan Gagne Gold Medal
Grunge Chloe Spencer Silver Medal
Play Possum Niamh Noble Bronze Medal
Pact Tim Snowdon Technical Achievement Award
2018[15] Strange Flesh Greatest Bear Gold Award
Saving You From Yourself Taylor McCue Silver Award
Love on the Peacock Express trainmilfsgame Bronze Award
Genderwrecked Ryan Rose Aceae, Heather Robinson, Medley Baxter Jury Award
All Walls Must Fall inbetweengames Technical Achievement Award

References

  1. ^ "Home Page: Melbourne Queer Game Festival". mqgf.com.au. 17 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Submissions now open for Melbourne Queer Games Festival". 18 August 2018.
  3. ^ Takahashi, Dean (31 August 2018). "Melbourne festival showcases Australia's impressive game dev growth". VentureBeat. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  4. ^ "'Melbourne Queer Games Festival' Is On October 22–23". Explosion Network | Independent Australian Reviews, News, Podcasts, Opinions. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Segments: Get the Inside Scoop on Melbourne Queer Games Festival on Breakfasters' GameChangers — Triple R 102.7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio". www.rrr.org.au. 102.7 FM. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  6. ^ Sarrubba, Stefania (4 September 2018). "Melbourne Queer Games Festival calls for LGBTI games". Gay Star News. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  7. ^ a b "The first Melbourne Queer Games Festival will be showcasing over 50 queer games". SciFiMonkeys.com. 21 October 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  8. ^ DeAnda, Michael Anthony (2019). "Masculinities in Games for Gay Male Audiences". hdl:10560/islandora:1000814. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  9. ^ "Melbourne Queer Games Festival 2020 award-winning, shortlisted titles named". 7 October 2020.
  10. ^ "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2023.
  11. ^ "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2022.
  12. ^ "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2021.
  13. ^ "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2020.
  14. ^ "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2019.
  15. ^ "Awards". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2018.