You are invited to Pride at Play Welcome Reception and more!
Presented by City of Port Phillip, St Kilda Film Festival, and IGEA.
The Pride at Play team has been working tirelessly in the background to bring the exhibition to Melbourne. We are proud to invite you to join us at the welcome reception, and you can play all the games there!
Over the next week we will be announcing a series of events on social media, our website, and also this mailing list. Expect a couple more mail from us this week! They are all free and open to the public.
Pride at Play Welcome Reception (3 June)
City of Port Phillip and St Kilda Film Festival delightfully invite you to join us at the Welcome Reception presented by the Interactive Games and Entertainment Association as Pride at Play opens its exhibition in Melbourne.
Originally conceived as part of Pride Amplified, Sydney WorldPride 2023 Festival, this queer games exhibition asks what it means to play with pride, and celebrates thoughtful LGBTQIA+ video games and tabletop roleplaying games made in Oceania and the Asia Pacific.
Join the welcome reception at St Kilda Town Hall, entrance Carlisle Street for an afternoon of welcoming speeches. You will be able to check out and play all the games at the exhibition. Drinks and nibbles are on the house thanks to City of Port Phillip and IGEA. There will be exhibition catalogues for purchase with all proceeds donated to charities, and free bookmarks as keepsakes.
RSVP is essential. Register now to secure your spot!
Melbourne Design Week Floor Talk (26 May)
“Is my game too queer for the audience?” You might ask yourself five or ten years ago, and you might continue asking yourself that question as a queer game designer.
In this talk, Xavier Ho (curator for Pride at Play) will draw from 20 interviews with queer game designers featured at Pride at Play, a curated queer games exhibition with a focus on Oceania and the Asia Pacific. The exhibit showcases queer games from all around the region along with conversational interviews that background each game. For this exhibit, he explored the participating artists backgrounds, motivations, goals, inspirations, communities — what it meant to them to ‘play with pride’ — and who their audiences are. Xavier will present an overview of what they found through these quiet conversations and provide insight into the state of queer games in Oceania and the Asia Pacific.
This event is part of Melbourne Design Week 2023, an initiative of the Victorian Government in collaboration with the NGV.
Tabletop Roleplay Night (13 June)
Pause Menu and Pride at Play proudly invite you to a social evening of tabletop roleplaying games. Each game will be facilitated, and players of all experiences are welcome to try!
Special guest facilitators include Logan Timmins, designer of LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game, and Timothy Snowdon, designer of Pretzel After Dark.
The Australian Roleplay Community are represented on the night, with four expert community game masters in the line up. A little bird says one of the games is still in active development and they are looking for playtesters with an open mind!
The line-up:
Fumbling in the Dark (Call of Cthulhu)
The Joy of Extra-dimensional Spaces (Dungeons and Dragons 5e)
Forgotten Fate (Dungeon World, One-Shot World)
Triangulate / Small Orbit (Body Movement)
LOGAN: An Autobiographical Tabletop Game (Reflective journalling)
Legend of the Hidden Folk: The Lantern Wisps (Custom)
Decay/Bloom (Blue Rose)
Register now to secure your spot! While we may have door tickets, we cannot guarantee on the day if tickets sell out.
Doors open at 6pm at Pause Menu, 74 Rose St, Fitzroy VIC 3065.
Do you have any favourite queer tabletop roleplaying games? Email us at hello@prideatplay.org and let us know! See you there.