Summary

• LGBTQ+ creators are essential to creating authentic representation in games like Celeste, If Found..., and The Red Strings Club.
• Trans creators like Maddy Thorson, Llaura McGee, and Paula Ruiz play a significant role in shaping the narratives and characters in video games.
• Games like Ikenfell and Get In The Car, Loser! showcase diverse queer representation and are a promising start for LGBTQ+ creators in the gaming industry.

As 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:LGBTQ+ representation continues to expand in gaming, it's important not only to acknowledge the strides that characters are making, but also the work of queer creators behind the scenes. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:From LGBTQ+ voice actors to the programmers, artists, composers, and developers and all the other staff members it takes to make a game, the🌠se are often times the people fighting the hardest to make sure all 🃏gamers can see themselves in games.

In this case, we want to spotlight games that involve trans creators. A lot of these games do include trans representation informed by these creators, but that, of course, isn't a requirement for the imagination of trans creators. Either way, there are a lot of great games out there that will support trans people working in games.

9 Celeste

A beautiful platformer that uses the journey of climbing a mountain as a metaphor for the difficulties of self-discovery. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:It's one of many fantastic LGBTQ indie games. The protagonist of the game, Madeline, is a trans woman. And she's not the only one.

The game's creator, Maddy Thorson, who is behind Maddy Makes Games, which is both Celeste's developer and publisher, is also a trans woman. She also made the game TowerFall in 2013, which is a multiplayer platform fighter. If you've played either of them, you should check out the other.

8 ෴ If Found...

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:A beautifully hand-drawn visual novel, the minimalist design bringing 🔯out the ethereal soundtrack, If Found... is a game about the destruction of a diary, and the possible destruction of the world. The character destroying her diary is a trans woman, and the character trying to stop the destruction of the world is a space explorer.

The game was written and designed by Llaura McGee, a trans woman, with developer Dreamfeel. Her experiences are folded into the narrative, and this authenticity can be felt in the game's sharp and poignant dialogue.

7 The Red Sওtrings 🐼Club

Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk thriller about a bartender and a hacker taking on a corporate conspiracy✃. This highly stylized graphic adventure deals with happiness, fate, and what human connection looks like.

The developer of the game is Deconstruteam, and the game's composer is a trans woman, Paula Ruiz. She informed the development of the trans character Larissa. While there were critiques about Larissa's dead name being used, she responded that it was based on her own experiences changing her dead name over to her real name during her transition.

6 🌞 No Longer Home

No Longer Home is point-and-click game that takes you through the journey of two non-binary students leaving their homes and each other. It's a game that takes on the topic of saying 'goodbye' through both the mundane and the extraordinary. It's also semi-autobiographical.

This means that Cel Davidson and Hana Lee, who are the two the game is based on, are two non-binary people. It's a short game, focusing heavily on the narrative aspect. We recommend it for people looking for an immersive, if slow, game with non-binary representation.

5 Ikenfell

If you've ever wanted to play a turn-based RPG, go to a magic school, and have a lot of queer repr🐼esentati🦋on, then you should give Ikenfell a shot. The game features a large magical school ripe for exploration, multiple bosses to overcome, and multiple items and spells waiting to be discovered.

Writer Joanna Blackhart of Happy Ray Games is a trans woman, working with other queer creators, and you can feel that experience and love for the LGBTQ community come through in the character's friendships. This is the first game by the developer, but it's a very promising start.

4 Get In Th✅e Car, Loser! 🌳

This lesbian road trip RPG is about four characters teaming up with an angel to fight the Machine Devil. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The main character is a trans lesbia𝓀n, and there's also a non-binary character, so the game has plenty of queer representation alongside the turn-based 8-bit combat. And that representation comes from a very personal place.

Christine Love, the creator, is a trans woman who has made several other games. These are mostly visual novels, including Digtial: A Love Story, Analogue: A Hate Story, and Ladykiller In A Bind. Any of these games are a good place to st✤art to see if you like her style.

3 Deathloop

A time loop FPS, Deathloop is about two rival assassins trapped together in the same repeating day. To escape, the protagonist (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:who is canonically bisexual), must assassinate eight key targets. It's a fast-paced, intense game that doesn't incorporate its queer elements as an afterthought.

Campaign director Dana Nightingale at Arkane Studios is a trans woman. She's also a level designer on Dishonored, which goes to prove that trans creators aren't only working on indie games, but at every level of the industry.

2 Unsighted

In Unsighted, you play as Alma, an Automaton who is racing to save her friends from becoming mindless killing machines. It's a futuristic RPG set in an open-world ready to be explored and conquered. Not only do your choices actually matter in this game, but there's also a co-op mode, so you can play it with a friend or solo.

The game is developed by Studio Pixel Punk, 𒊎which was co-founded by Brazilian trans women Fernanda Dias and Tiani Pixel. You can see these identities at play in the way the inhuman Automatons interact with gender and queer romantic elements in the plot.

1 Battletech 𒁏

This one is for any mech lovers out there. In Battletech, you command a mercenary outfit of mechs and the people piloting the🦩m. The turn-based, tac💙tical combat comes in as you get involved in a galactic civil war.

The lead designer for this game is Kiva Maginn, a trans woman. Her work on this game shows that trans creators aren't only limited to their own experiences (although we do love good representation), they can also be integral to creating games about whatever else interests them. Like huge mechs.