The queer games avant-garde: how LGBTQ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games
Introduction: The Queer Games Avant-Garde : Reimagining the Medium of Video Games -- Queer People, Queer Desires, Queer Games. Dietrich Squinkifer : Nonbinary Characters, Asexuality, and Game Design as Joyful Resistance -- Robert Yang : The Politics and Pleasures of Representing Sex between Men -- Aevee Bee : On Designing for Queer Players and Re-making Autobiographical Truth -- Queerness as a Mode of Game-Making. Llaura McGee : Leaving Space for Messiness, Complexity, and Chance -- Andi McClure : Algorithms, Accidents, and the Queerness of Abstraction -- Liz Ryerson : Resisting Empathy and Rewriting the Rules of Game Design -- Designing Queer Intimacy in Games. Jimmy Andrews and Loren Schmidt : Queer Body Physics, Awkwardness as Emotional Realism, and the Challenge of Designing Consent -- Naomi Clark : Disrupting Norms and Critiquing Systems through "Good, Nice Sex with Tentacle Monsters" -- Elizabeth Sampat : Safe Spaces for Queerness and Games against Suffering -- The Legacy of Feminist Performance Art in Queer Games. Kara Stone : Softness, Strength, and Danger in Games about Mental Health and Healing -- Mattie Brice : Radical Play through Vulnerability -- Seanna Musgrave : "Touch-Feely" Virtual Reality and Reclaiming the Trans Body -- Intersectional Perspectives in/on Queer Games. Tonia B***** and Emilia Yang : Making Games about Queer Women of Color, by Queer Women of Color -- Nicky Case : Playable Politics and Interactivity for Understanding -- Nina Freeman : More Than Just the "Woman Who Makes Sex Games" -- Analog Games: Exploring Queerness through Non-Digital Play. Avery Alder : Queer Storytelling and the Mechanics of Desire -- Kat Jones : Bisexuality, Latina Identity, and the Power of Physical Presence -- Making Queer Games, Queer Change, and Queer Community. Mo Cohen : On Self-Care, Funding, and Other Advice for Aspiring Queer Indie Game-Makers -- Jerome Hagan : Are Queer Games Bringing "Diversity" to the Mainstream Industry? -- Sarah Schoemann : The Power of Community Organizing -- Afterword: The Future of the Queer Games Avant-Garde.