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The Game Developer’s Conference may have been just about a month ago, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late to talk about some of the conference’s biggest stories while sipping mimosas. Join myself, David Edison, and special guest Matt Conn (founder of GaymerConnect) as we spill some GDC tea. What does Yetizen actually do? Is Brenda Romero our flawless queen? (hint: yes) And can the FOX Engine outdo grindr when it comes to camera angles?
The answers to these questions and more can be found in our belated GDC Recap:
You can expect much more video content from us starting this Summer. Be sure to subscribe to our youtube channel if you haven’t already, so you don’t miss any more of our drunken shenanigans.
Nintendo’s Tomodachi Collection is a life simulation series only available in Japan. It can be best described as a mix between The Sims and Animal Crossing. Players control their Miis (which they can transfer over from their Wii consoles) as they go about every day tasks in real time. The newest entry in the popular series, Tomodachi Collection: New Life for the 3DS has been making the internet rounds over the last few days as news spread about the game allowing for same-sex marriages.
Turns out the ability to marry a Mii of the same sex was not only a glitch, but one that was also limited to male characters (sorry lesbians). The glitch also made it possible for male characters to become pregnant. Glitch or not, many Japanese players rejoiced at Tomodachi Collection: New Life‘s accidental equality. The trending topic #homokore, a play on #tomokore (a shortening of Tomodachi Collection), was born and many gamers began tweeting screenshots of their happy little gay Miis living their everyday lives. Some players decided to buy the game because of the glitch. Many news outlets called for Nintendo to embrace the glitch and merely patch it to allow female Miis to get in on the marriage fun.
Well, Nintendo did release a patch….but rather than allow for ladies to marry ladies it just goes ahead eliminates same sex marriage options in the game altogether.
Adding insult to injury, Nintendo said in a statement that players should download the patch if they are experiencing any of the following:
Gay gaming documentary Gaming In Color has officially reached its Kickstarter goal, meaning that the project is fully funded and can begin production! It was a close race to the finish line, but this past Friday the film managed to reach its $50,000 funding goal during the last 48 hours of its campaign.
“With the minutes ticking on the remainder of the Kickstarter, we want to give everyone a change to get those upgrades in the last minute! Fancy a shirt? Perhaps you want to try out that new game?
We also wanted to say “Thank You”. Not only because you helped make this film a reality but because this is your story. Even if you aren’t marginalized, even if you don’t consider yourself much of a gamer this is the story of people who want to make a safer space for themselves and others. It is people like you wanting to share their stories and have them be heard and it is thanks to you that those stories WILL be heard.
So from the start of Gaminig In Color and gamers everywhere,
Thank you!
And we can’t wait to show you just what we can do!”
While the project initially gained a lot of buzz, and nearly $30,000 in its first day online, progress halted for nearly a month before jump starting again during the final stretch. Over the last week gay gamers of all kinds sent their videos to Gaming In Color, putting their faces to the cause and making sure that this film becomes a reality.
Full disclosure: I never really ‘got’ drag queens. I found my way to RuPaul’s Drag Race only recently. I know, I know I’m a bad gay and believe me, I’ve heard it before. There was some part of me deep down that wanted to resist Ru’s cultural phenom of a show and the resurgent mainstream success of drag. Perhaps it’s my hipstery nature. Perhaps it was some internalized homophobia creeping out. It’s certainly nothing against RuPaul, as a child of the 90s of course I love her; I was just never very much interested in the concept of men dressed as women. Then the notorious Willam made his way into my life via his youtube series Willam’s Beatdown, became my new figure of worship, and suddenly I was interested in the show. Willam was a Drag Race contestant was he not? Next thing I knew I was hunting down Drag Race episodes wherever I could find them, and had marathoned through every season in less than a week.
And then one night I had a dream. In this dream I was a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race. My name was Orealia Mann, my drag icon being Olivia Munn. I was ultimately eliminated for refusing to shave my body hair *but* the dream alone was enough to make it clear: I get it now. Drag queens are awesome.
I demand that every game feature an Eleganza! option in the character customization menu. BioWare, you better sissy that walk. But until Command Her Shep Hard can become a reality, RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis will rule the roost as gaming’s best squirrelfriend.
It’s been a while since there’s been much talk about GaymerX (formerly Gaymercon). The first ever LGBT-centric video game convention taking place in San Francisco this August was mired in controversy from the onset. Many in the industry were supportive, but others questioned the necessity of such an event. “Doesn’t this encourage more segregation?” “There isn’t a straight gamer con, so why do we need this?” and other such riveting questions were asked. Even gaymers were some of the event’s early detractors. But the answer to the biggest question, “Do we need LGBT video game convention?”, seemed to come on its own when the Gaymercon Kickstarter ovwehelmingly reached nearly four times its original goal.
And then the circus of craziness known as the Westboro Baptist Church showed up and completely validated this event in one fell swoop by simply commenting on it.
I personally love the idea that Master Chief walks around in a pink bathrobe (with the armor still on of course).
I know for a fact that many of our readers (not to mention staff) are big fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and now we can all put the bass in our walk with the soon to be released RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis. Dropping on Monday May 6th to coincide with the Season 5 finale of the show, Dragopolis comes to us from the aptly named So Much Drama Studios. Via the game’s official press release:
“RuPaul’s Drag Race: Dragopolis is a fantabulous adventure starring a drag queen fighting for RuPaul. The evil drag queen Apocalypstyk has broken into the workroom on day one of RuPaul’s Drag Race in order to sabotage the show and kidnap the sexy men in the pit crew. Players control our drag queen heroine, and can customize this ferocious character with sickening wigs, outfits and even their own face. In order to save the day, she races to the main stage, jumping and clawing her way past Apocalypstyk’s increasingly fierce minions, all while serving up new looks for the photo shoots! There is no RuPaulogizing in this game!”
They had me at “no RuPaulogizing.” Actually, let’s be real: They had me at RuPaul anything!
I was able to get in touch with So Much Drama’s Jeff Meador, who spilled plenty of tea on the new app.
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