The Queer Games Festival - Naarm Melbourne

✨🌈We're doing it underground this year. No socials. Hope that's ok. 💅 🎩 #migw23

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Anyone know of a like-minded Mastodon instance that would have us?

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Queer Games Festival Gold Award for "overall excellence in game design" talking to my dad hatimb00.itch.io/talking-to-my-… @hatimb00 #qgf2022

And finally...

Before we get to the last award, we want to thank the volunteers from Melbourne and around the world who help out with the festival. You make it happen.

Congratulations to the winner of the 2022 Queer Games Festival Jury Award "for a game that is fearless about the freedom, limitless and undefinable strangeness of queer". He Fucked The Girl Out of Me taylormccue.itch.io/trauma @TaylorMcCue5 #qgf2022

At its discretion, the jury can give a special mention for a game "that is fearless about the freedom, limitless and undefinable strangeness of queer". This year is one of those years.

Congratulations to the winners of the $500USD 2022 Queer Games Festival Emerging Developer thingy Autumn Wish violetfairy.itch.io/autumn-wish @avioletfairy #qgf2022

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Queer Games Festival Silver Award! Taipei Metro Quest hellodri.itch.io/taipei-metro-q… @plant_a_dri #qgf2022

We're a small festival, we can do it. It's the @gamesweekmelbs and @mqff folk we worry about ... they've got such nice logos

We're sort of in the process of renaming Melbourne to Naarm (Narrm being the traditional name for the area on which the city was built) but "Melbourne Naarm/Narrm Queer Games Festival 2022" is tough to fit in a hashtag

We're a few drinks in now...

Congratulations to the winners of the other 2022 Queer Games Festival Bronze Award! Buy Hyacinths cow-children.itch.io/buy-hyacinths @CowChildrenpod #qgf2022

Congratulations to the winners of the first 2022 Queer Games Festival Bronze Award! Angel! wedgiebee.itch.io/angel @wedgiebee @ohdangitsctrang #qgf2022

It's becoming a tradition that we hand out two bronze medals because the judges just couldn't separate the two games.