The queer games avant-garde : how LGBTQ game makers are reimagining the medium of video games /
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.