#LGBTQA+ Games

[amaregames]

Announcing the Amare Games Festival 2024

Amare Games Festival 2024

Join us in April for the 2024 Amare Games Festival, a celebration of love and diversity in story-focused games!

For this festival we invite you to create or update a game that you believe falls under the Amare Genre tag!

What is Amare?

Why a festival?

Jams are an awesome way to get the creative juices flowing and challenge yourself to create a game in a short amount of time. However, there are already a lot of amazing projects in progress, so it's important to celebrate those and give people the opportunity to focus on setting and achieving goals with their existing projects as well.

Examples of Submissions

A new game.

A new demo or Vertical slice.

A new chapter update to an existing game.

Adding new features or content to an existing game.

The festival has fairly relaxed rules, but in general, we would like all participants to keep these in mind:

Rules:

You must Release or Update during the festival period. Work can be commenced before the start of the festival.

Please clearly label demos or first episodes as such. - This is to help us organise the entries

Please clearly state the exact update or new content that was added during the festival.

Submissions can be Free or Commercial.

NSFW must be properly labelled, but is fine as long as it adheres to Itch.io's TOS

No hate speech, (i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.) or content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.

Content Warnings are needed (Here is a link to help you with those if you need it!)

We currently do not support AI-generated games or games that make use of generative AI writing and art. Until legislation is put in place to ensure ethical training models that respect artist and creator copyright and regulate transparency on the use of AI in creative content, we will not allow the submission of games that utilise generative AI.

We kindly ask that you tag your game with the 'Amare' tag here on itch.io. This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.

Join the discord to find others who are looking for festival partners, and to talk with other Amare Devs!

Sign up for the Festival on the Amare Games Festival Itch Page.

[shapeshiftinterest]

@maltesegeek96 commissioned for junior tugging luigi to see his art while bowser watches them proudly

second pic’s a close up of junior and luigi

junior: papa luigi, papa luigi! y’gotta see my painting, i worked REAL hard on it!

note: jr’s, don’t touch!

[squishymain]

Overwatch Venture Nonbinary flag icons

[magical-wishies]

Happy pride month to everyone!! *holds out my poor attempt at humor*

[frog0nabog]

That’s all thank you

Base on the last picture

[crossdreamers]

Transgender characters in  Sims 4 can now wear binders, shapewear, and have top surgery scars

Life simulation game Sims 4 shows the world how easy it is to be transgender positive.

Pink News reports:

The new options can be found under three categories: medical wearables, top surgery scars, binders and shapewear.

Medical wearables include hearing aids and glucose monitors, while binders and shapewear include new tucking underwear, tank tops, and binders.

Over at The Daily Beast Shannon O’Connor writes:

Not only does it add some much needed inclusivity to video games, but it also is an outlet for queer players of The Sims who are going through the personal struggle of coming to terms with their identity that lets them truly be seen. Now, anyone struggling with gender dysphoria can create a Sim with top surgery scars or a binder, live a little like that in the game and maybe start to feel a real sense of self. 

There are obviously also a lot of trans people who use Sims to explore and express their gender identity before (or without) transitioning, and who will not make use of these additions. That is fine too.

Regardless: Electronic Arts (EA) deserves praise for taking the needs of trans people seriously.

[hiddlepiddle1981]

I’m not ok

[msnewobsessioneveryweek]

LGBTQA+ Character 5: Monika

Monika is a queer character from the game Doki Doki Literature Club. I’m using queer as a more general term as her official sexuality is not said. Monika’s entire goal as a character is to get the players attention on her. She messes with the code of the game to take away the other options until there is just Monika. She is madly in love with the player. And by player, I mean the person playing the game (you), not just the player character in the game. While the player character is male, Monika knows that this isn’t necessarily what the real person is. She doesn’t care about what gender they are; she loves them. This is confirmed by in-game dialogue in the later part of the game. There is also a Reddit post from Dan Salvato (the game’s creator) that somewhat furthers this. He continuously ‘person’ and talks about Monika loving someone who loves themself. The post is shown below.

[palatteflags]

Retro video games and arcades based MLM and Oriented Aroace moodboard! ^^ For an anon!! Hope you like it~

Want one? Send an ask~ -mod Jay

[tigerlily980]

As Pride Month comes to end, I came out with a new meme for y’all to draw in your own style

[amaregames]

Join us for the Amare Games Festival 2024! A Game Jam celebrating love and diversity in story-focused games!

Amare Games Festival 2024

Join us in April for the 2024 Amare Games Festival, a game jam celebrating love and diversity in story-focused games!

For this festival we invite you to create or update a game that you believe falls under the Amare Genre tag!

Don't forget to Sign up for the Festival on the Amare Games Festival Itch Page.

What is Amare?

Why a festival?

Jams are an awesome way to get the creative juices flowing and challenge yourself to create a game in a short amount of time. However, there are already a lot of amazing projects in progress, so it's important to celebrate those and give people the opportunity to focus on setting and achieving goals with their existing projects as well.

Examples of Submissions

A new game.

A new demo or Vertical slice.

A new chapter update to an existing game.

Adding new features or content to an existing game.

The festival has fairly relaxed rules, but in general, we would like all participants to keep these in mind:

Rules:

You must Release or Update during the festival period. Work can be commenced before the start of the festival.

Please clearly label demos or first episodes as such. - This is to help us organise the entries

Please clearly state the exact update or new content that was added during the festival.

Submissions can be Free or Commercial.

NSFW must be properly labelled, but is fine as long as it adheres to Itch.io's TOS

No hate speech, (i.e. speech that promotes hatred, violence or discrimination against groups of people based on ethnicity, religion, gender, age, disability or sexual orientation.) or content that is patently offensive or intended to shock or disgust viewers.

Content Warnings are needed (Here is a link to help you with those if you need it!)

We currently do not support AI-generated games or games that make use of generative AI writing and art. Until legislation is put in place to ensure ethical training models that respect artist and creator copyright and regulate transparency on the use of AI in creative content, we will not allow the submission of games that utilise generative AI.

We kindly ask that you tag your game with the 'Amare' tag here on itch.io. This will ensure people who are watching the tag instead of just the jam page will see your game.

Join the discord to find others who are looking for festival partners, and to talk with other Amare Devs!

[shapeshiftinterest]

luigi and junior hanging out; either pre or established bowuigi

top right: junior got hurt or tired so luigi’s carrying him

bottom left: either the first or after multiple times, in which junior got bored and kidnaps luigi, bringing him to bowser’s castle (junior’s arguing with one of the high ranking people but he’s still the prince, luigi’s just along for the ride)

junior getting a piggy back ride: why’re you so SLOW!? go faster!!

junior: back off! greenie’s MY prisoner!

luigi: ahaha, ciao

[gaming-thoughts-by-an-idiot]

Nobody can change my mind about this bcuz I'm right

She looks VERY lesbian

[nakamatoo]

Yes that is my daughter and yes I am extremely proud of her.

[nightmaree-eyess]

The pipeline from hunger games fan at the age of 12 to being 20 something year old queers has a 95% success rate.

[supergalaxysam]

Going Live on Twitch Now! Come Join :)

Come join us live on twitch today, I'm playing Identity V: https://www.twitch.tv/supergalaxysam_official

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