Bonnie Ruberg is Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Interactive Media and Games division at the University of Southern California and assistant professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine. The lead organizer of the Queerness and Games conference, she has written for The Village Voice, The Economist, and Wired. Adrienne Shaw is assistant professor in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University and a Media and Communications PhD program faculty member. She is author of Gaming at the Edge: Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture (Minnesota, 2014).
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Contents Introduction: Imagining Queer Game Studies Adrienne Shaw and Bonnie Ruberg Part I. Defining Queerness in Games 1. What Is Queerness in Games, Anyway? Naomi Clark 2. Queergaming Edmond Y. Chang 3. Queer Theory, the Body, and Video Games Derek A. Burrill 4. Queering Games History: Complexities, Chaos, and Community Zoya Street Part II. Queering Game Play and Design 5. Ending the Cycle: Developing a Board Game to Engage People in Social Justice Issues Peter Wonica 6. Playing Outside Leigh Alexander 7. Building a Queer Mythology Hanna Brady 8. For Play? Literary Ludics and Sexual Politics Aubrey Gabel 9. Play and Be Real about It: What Games Could Learn from Kink Mattie Brice 10. Queering the Snapshot: Ambient Mobile Play Larissa Hjorth and Kim d’Amazing Part III. Reading Games Queerly 11. On “FeministWhorePurna” and the Ludo-Material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games Robert Yang 12. Welcome to My Fantasy Zone: Bayonetta and Queer Femme Disturbance Amanda Phillips 13. Roleplay as Queer Lens: How “ClosetShep” Changed My Vision of Mass Effect Todd Harper 14. Queer(ing) Gaming Technologies: Thinking on Constructions of Normativity Inscribed in Digital Gaming Hardware Gregory L. Bagnall 15. On Gone Home merritt kopas Part IV. Queer Failures in Games 16. The Trouble with Communities Adrienne Shaw 17. “Play Like a Girl”: Gender Expression, Sexual Identity, and Complex Expectations in a Female-Oriented Gaming Community Gabriela T. Richard 18. The Nightmare Is Over Katherine Cross 19. Queer Gaming: Gaming, Hacking, and Going Turbo Jack Halberstam 20. The Arts of Failure: Jack Halberstam in Conversation with Jesper Juul Moderated by Bonnie Ruberg 21. “I Wouldn’t Even Know the Real Me Myself”: Queering Failure in Metal Gear Solid 2 Jordan Youngblood Part V. Queer Futures for Games 22. If Queer Children Were a Video Game Kathryn Bond Stockton 23. Queer Growth in Videogames Christopher Goetz 24. Finding the Queerness in Games Colleen Macklin 25. Organizing New Approaches to Games: An Interview with Chelsea Howe, Toni Rocca, and Sarah Schoemann Moderated by Bonnie Ruberg 26. Forty-Eight-Hour Utopia: On Hope and the Future of Queerness in Games Bonnie Ruberg Contributors Index
Contents Introduction: Imagining Queer Game Studies Adrienne Shaw and Bonnie Ruberg Part I. Defining Queerness in Games 1. What Is Queerness in Games, Anyway? Naomi Clark 2. Queergaming Edmond Y. Chang 3. Queer Theory, the Body, and Video Games Derek A. Burrill 4. Queering Games History: Complexities, Chaos, and Community Zoya Street Part II. Queering Game Play and Design 5. Ending the Cycle: Developing a Board Game to Engage People in Social Justice Issues Peter Wonica 6. Playing Outside Leigh Alexander 7. Building a Queer Mythology Hanna Brady 8. For Play? Literary Ludics and Sexual Politics Aubrey Gabel 9. Play and Be Real about It: What Games Could Learn from Kink Mattie Brice 10. Queering the Snapshot: Ambient Mobile Play Larissa Hjorth and Kim d’Amazing Part III. Reading Games Queerly 11. On “FeministWhorePurna” and the Ludo-Material Politics of Gendered Damage Power-ups in Open-World RPG Video Games Robert Yang 12. Welcome to My Fantasy Zone: Bayonetta and Queer Femme Disturbance Amanda Phillips 13. Roleplay as Queer Lens: How “ClosetShep” Changed My Vision of Mass Effect Todd Harper 14. Queer(ing) Gaming Technologies: Thinking on Constructions of Normativity Inscribed in Digital Gaming Hardware Gregory L. Bagnall 15. On Gone Home merritt kopas Part IV. Queer Failures in Games 16. The Trouble with Communities Adrienne Shaw 17. “Play Like a Girl”: Gender Expression, Sexual Identity, and Complex Expectations in a Female-Oriented Gaming Community Gabriela T. Richard 18. The Nightmare Is Over Katherine Cross 19. Queer Gaming: Gaming, Hacking, and Going Turbo Jack Halberstam 20. The Arts of Failure: Jack Halberstam in Conversation with Jesper Juul Moderated by Bonnie Ruberg 21. “I Wouldn’t Even Know the Real Me Myself”: Queering Failure in Metal Gear Solid 2 Jordan Youngblood Part V. Queer Futures for Games 22. If Queer Children Were a Video Game Kathryn Bond Stockton 23. Queer Growth in Videogames Christopher Goetz 24. Finding the Queerness in Games Colleen Macklin 25. Organizing New Approaches to Games: An Interview with Chelsea Howe, Toni Rocca, and Sarah Schoemann Moderated by Bonnie Ruberg 26. Forty-Eight-Hour Utopia: On Hope and the Future of Queerness in Games Bonnie Ruberg Contributors Index
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