Melbourne Queer Games Festival

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]

Melbourne Queer Games Festival
MQGF 2018 banner
GenreLGBTIQ+ Game Festival
Location(s)Melbourne, Australia
Years active3
Founded2018
Websitemqgf.com.au

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]

Gold Medal Silver Medal
  • 2018 | Saving You, From Yourself
  • 2019 | Grunge[11][12]
  • 2020 | spring leaves no flowers
  • 2021 | Cover me in leaves
Bronze Medal Technical Award
  • 2018 | Love On The Peacock Express
  • 2019 | Play Possum
  • 2020 | Queering Spacetime
  • 2020 | Monster Sweethearts
  • 2021 | Minotaur Hotel
  • 2021 | What's your gender?
  • 2018 | All Walls Must Fall
  • 2019 | Pact
  • 2020 | Retrace
  • 2021 | 湯圓 tong jyun
Special Jury Prize
  • 2018 | Gender Wrecked
  • 2020 | Queer Olympix Day 1 - Cosmic Room[13]

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. "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. "Masculinities in Games for Gay Male Audiences - ProQuest". search.proquest.com. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  9. "Melbourne Queer Games Festival 2020 award-winning, shortlisted titles named". 7 October 2020.
  10. K, Rebecca (29 April 2020). "Arcade Spirits | Review". Mental Health Gaming. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  11. "Queer indie games deserve more recognition". www.hebergementwebs.com. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  12. "Queer indie games deserve more recognition". Times News Express. 20 January 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  13. Korkmaz, Yigit E (7 October 2020). "Queer Olympix's computer game Cosmic Room gets an award from Melbourne!". Kaos GL - News Portal for LGBTI+. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
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