Melbourne Queer Games Festival

Melbourne Queer Games Festival
MQGF 2018 banner
Genre	LGBTIQ+ Game Festival
Location(s)	Melbourne, Australia
Years active	7
Founded	2018
Website	mqgf.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
2024 [10]	Queer Quest: All in a Gay's Work	Queermo Games	Gold Medal
	Kitsune Tails	Eniko Fox, James Yarrow, Allison Shabet, Elizabeth Dumler	Silver Medal
	Walk With Me	Ray Chia	Bronze Medal
	Incolatus	Jane Fiona	Technical Achievement Award
	pareidolia in █▄██▄▄	wren773tk	Emerging Developer Award
2023 [11]	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 [12]	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 [13]	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 [14]	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 [15]	Arcade Spirits	Stefan Gagne	Gold Medal
	Grunge	Chloe Spencer	Silver Medal
	Play Possum	Niamh Noble	Bronze Medal
	Pact	Tim Snowdon	Technical Achievement Award
2018 [16]	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. "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". Queer Games Festival Melbourne. 2024.
11. "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2023.
12. "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2022.
13. "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2021.
14. "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2020.
15. "Shortlist". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2019.
16. "Awards". Melbourne Queer Games Festival. 2018.

External links

• Melbourne Queer Games Festival website