Rainbow Arcade Kickstarter
This winter, some of my work is going to be shown in the Schwules Museum in Berlin, the oldest and largest LGBTQ-related museum in the world! The show is really important, as it not only puts videogames in the context of queer history, but also is (if I have this right) the first time that Adrienne Shaw’s LGBTQ games archive will manifest in a public, physical space.
Today they launched a crowdfunding campaign for the exhibition catalogue, which would include essays by the contemporary queer games creators included in the exhibition, so that’s me, and some of my favourite games folks: Squinky, Robert Yang, and Naomi Clark.
There are lots of great reasons to support this Kickstarter, and I think the reward tiers are fantastic - the €70 tier comes with tickets to not one, but two museums in Berlin as well as a copy of the catalogue, the €100 tier comes with a custom avatar made by me using some of the art tools I’ve built in Pico-8, and the particularly remarkable €300 tier comes with a copy of Naomi Clark’s Consentacle, a lushly-illustrated game about negotiating sex with a giant tentacled alien, which you can’t buy anywhere!