Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York is a public community college in the South Bronx,New York City. It is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system and was created by an act of the Board of Higher Education in 1968 in response to demands from the Hispanic/Puerto Rican community,which was urging for the establishment of a college to serve the people of the South Bronx. In 1970,the college admitted its first class of 623 students at the site of a former tire factory. Several years later,the college moved to a larger site nearby at 149th Street and Grand Concourse. The college also operates a location at the prow building of the Bronx Terminal Market.
An indie role-playing game is a role-playing game published outside traditional,"mainstream" means. Varying definitions require that commercial,design,or conceptual elements of the game stay under the control of the creator,or that the game should just be produced outside a corporate environment. Indie role-playing game designers participate in several development communities and game distribution networks. Indie games also grant their own awards committees.
Dys4ia is an abstract,autobiographical Adobe Flash video game that Anna Anthropy,also known as Auntie Pixelante,developed to recount her experiences of gender dysphoria and hormone replacement therapy. The game was originally published in Newgrounds but was later removed by Anthropy. In 2023,it was reinstated by her on itch.io.
itch.io is a website for users to host,sell and download indie video games,indie role-playing games,game assets,comics,zines and music. Launched in March 2013 by Leaf Corcoran,the service hosts over 700,000 products as of April 2023.
Queers in love at the End of the World,also stylized as queers in love at the end of the world,is a hypertext game created with Twine. Developed by Anna Anthropy in 2013 for the Ludum Dare Game Jam,the short,ten-second narrative faces players with how to interact with their partner before "(e)verything is wiped away".
Butterfly Soup is a visual novel developed by Brianna Lei and published in September 2017 for Windows,macOS,and Linux. The game has the player follow the perspectives of four LGBT Asian-American girls in Fremont,California,alternating between their first year of high school in 2008 and when they were young children. The coming-of-age story shows them as they join a baseball club and centers on the romance between the main character,Diya,and her friend Min.
ZombsRoyale.io is a battle royale game developed by End Game Interactive. It was released for web browsers in 2018,with iOS and Android ports later that year. A simplified take on the genre,game matches follow up to 100 players who must fight on a large map to be the last survivors. It uses simple 2D graphics and a top-down perspective. The game has amassed over 120,000,000 downloads and unique players across iOS,Android,Web Browser,and PC as of 2024.
LÖVE is a free,open-source,cross-platform framework released under the zlib license for developing video games. The framework is written in C++ and uses Lua as its scripting language and is still maintained by its original developers. The framework is cross-platform supporting the platforms Microsoft Windows,macOS,Linux,Android,and iOS.
Game Maker's Toolkit (GMTK) is a video game analysis video series created by British journalist Mark Brown. Beginning in 2014,the series examines video game design and aims to encourage developers to improve their craft. It is hosted on YouTube and funded via Patreon.
Micro Mages is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System that was published on April 30,2019 by Morphcat Games. The game raised over €150,000 on Kickstarter. The game was published as a physical cartridge for the NES,and later as a digital download,bundled with an emulator,on Steam and Itch.io.
Pixel Game Maker MV is a 2D action game production software published by Playism. It allows for the creation of 2D games without the need for programming.
Arcade Spirits is a dating sim visual novel video game released in 2019 for Microsoft Windows and in 2020 for PlayStation 4,Nintendo Switch,and Xbox One. It was developed by Fiction Factory Games and published by PQube. Set in an alternate history where the video game crash of 1983 never happened,arcades remain popular. Players control a customizable character who can be female,male,or non-binary,and can choose whether they want to approach the seven romance candidates romantically or platonically.
Fortune-499 is a role-playing video game in which the player takes on the role of an oracle working in the "magical resources" department of an unnamed corporation,and has to prevent an acquisition by monsters after the company makes an initial public offering. In-game combat is card-based and takes the form of rock paper scissors matches. The game was initially released for Windows in February 2018.
Dujanah is an art video game developed and published by Jack King-Spooner,a Scottish indie game developer. It was released on September 19,2017. The game follows Dujanah,a Muslim woman in a fictional country under the occupation of foreign powers in a stylized magic realist–style world as she tries to find out what happened to her husband and daughter. The game focuses on the theme of death,and explores it through the stories of people that Dujanah meets as she walks through her country. Reception to Dujanah was positive,with praise focused on its themes and storytelling.
The Indie Game Developer Network (IGDN) is a trade association for developers of indie role-playing games,board games,card games,and LARPs. They present the annual Indie Groundbreaker Awards at Gen Con. Their other programs include a scholarship to attend the game designer convention Metatopia,a mentorship program,and a peer coaching program.
Visigoths vs. Mall Goths is an urban fantasy tabletop role-playing game with LGBTQ dating sim elements by Lucian Kahn,with art by Robin Eisenberg. The ancient Visigoths have time traveled to 1990s Los Angeles and are battling mall goths for control of the mall. The game's tone is silly and the setting has many puns. The game was inspired by 1990s movies The Craft,Empire Records,Bill &Ted's Excellent Adventure and Clueless.
Genderwrecked is a 2018 video game created by independent developers Heather Flowers and Gendervamp,the pseudonym of Ryan Rose Aceae. Described as a "post-apocalyptic genderpunk visual novel",Genderwrecked is a work of interactive fiction in which the player is invited to explore themes and issues around gender through the comic representation of monsters. The game was developed by Flowers and Aceae using the Ren'Py visual novel software as a personal expression of their own experiences. Upon release,Genderwrecked received praise from several publications,with critics praising the game's balance of humor and earnest discourse on gender and identity. Following release,Genderwrecked received the 'Jury Award' at the Melbourne Queer Games Festival in October 2018,and was briefly showcased by the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Dream Askew,Dream Apart is a set of two tabletop role-playing games about marginalized communities struggling for survival. "Dream Askew" was designed by Avery Alder and "Dream Apart" was designed by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Dream Askew,Dream Apart is the blueprint for the Belonging Outside Belonging game system.
Ultraviolet Grasslands is a psychedelic tabletop role-playing game written and illustrated by Luka Rejec and published by Exalted Funeral Press. The first edition was published in 2020. The second edition won the 2024 Silver ENNIE Award for "Best Art,Interior." Ultraviolet Grasslands was inspired by the art of Jean Giraud aka Moebius.
