# Melbourne Queer Games Festival

The Melbourne Queer Games Festival is an annual LGBT game festival held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was founded in 2018 and is held in October as a part of the Melbourne International Games Week. It showcases video and tabletop games from around the world that feature LGBT gameplay elements
The festival is volunteer led and in addition to appealing to the queer gaming community and raise the profile of queer games, they're working toward reclaiming the phrase "gay games".

## Format

The festival publishes a showcase of games submitted, a livestream of games being played, and a series of juried awards and launched with fifty games in its inaugural year. In 2018 it ran a "Bring It Back" event highlighting an older game, Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars.

## Jury-voted awards

The Festival recognizes several categories of awards: technical, jury, bronze, silver and gold.
Awards and nominations at the Melbourne Queer Games Festival :
| Year | Work | Author | Award |
| 2024 | Queer Quest: All in a Gay's Work | Queermo Games | Gold Medal |
| 2024 | Kitsune Tails | Eniko Fox, James Yarrow, Allison Shabet, Elizabeth Dumler | Silver Medal |
| 2024 | Walk With Me | Ray Chia | Bronze Medal |
| 2024 | Incolatus | Jane Fiona | Technical Achievement Award |
| 2024 | pareidolia in █▄██▄▄ | wren773tk | Emerging Developer Award |
| 2023 | Please Be Happy | Arimia | Gold Medal |
| 2023 | Funny Walk – You're So Tense!! | Vi | Silver Medal |
| 2023 | two men go on a date and don't fall in love | littlerat | Bronze Medal |
| 2023 | It Started With Hairs | SuperBiasedGary | Bronze Medal |
| 2023 | Sporal | Mimosa Echard | Technical Achievement Award |
| 2022 | talking to my dad | Hatim Benhsain | Gold Medal |
| 2022 | TAIPEI METRO QUEST | Dri Chiu Tattersfield | Silver Medal |
| 2022 | Angel! | Cathy Trang and Sean Wejebe | Bronze Medal |
| 2022 | Buy Hyacinths | Benjamilian Swithen, Cow Children Games | Bronze Medal |
| 2022 | He Fucked the Girl Out of Me | Taylor McCue | Jury Award |
| 2022 | Queer and Chill | Ignacio Bustos | Technical Achievement Award |
| 2022 | Autumn Wish | Violet Fairy | Emerging Developer Award |
| 2021 | Winter | Freya Campbell and Elliot Herriman | Gold Award |
| 2021 | Cover Me In Leaves | Elliot Herriman | Silver Medal |
| 2021 | What's your gender? | radow | Bronze Medal |
| 2021 | Minotaur Hotel | MinoAnon | Bronze Medal |
| 2021 | Tong Jyun | kc | Technical Achievement Award |
| 2021 | Parcels and Pollen | Littlerat | Emerging Developer Award |
| 2020 | If Found... | Llaura McGree | Gold Medal |
| 2020 | spring leaves no flowers | kc | Silver Medal |
| 2020 | Queering Spacetime | Toto Lin | Bronze Medal |
| 2020 | Monster Sweethearts | Sam | Bronze Medal |
| 2020 | Queer Olympix Day 1 - Comsmic Room | Lezborado | Jury Award |
| 2019 | Arcade Spirits | Stefan Gagne | Gold Medal |
| 2019 | Grunge | Chloe Spencer | Silver Medal |
| 2019 | Play Possum | Niamh Noble | Bronze Medal |
| 2019 | Pact | Tim Snowdon | Technical Achievement Award |
| 2018 | Strange Flesh | Greatest Bear | Gold Award |
| 2018 | Saving You From Yourself | Taylor McCue | Silver Award |
| 2018 | Love on the Peacock Express | trainmilfsgame | Bronze Award |
| 2018 | Genderwrecked | Ryan Rose Aceae, Heather Robinson, Medley Baxter | Jury Award |
| 2018 | All Walls Must Fall | inbetweengames | Technical Achievement Award |