Alum Bo Ruberg Publishes The Queer Games Avant-Garde
Bo Ruberg's new book The Queer Games Avant-Garde was published March 2020, by the Duke University Press. BCNM alum is now an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine. Their previous work includes the writing of Video Games Have Always Been Queer and co-editing Queer Game Studies. Congratulations, Bo!!
About the book:
In The Queer Games Avant-Garde, Bonnie Ruberg presents twenty interviews with twenty-two queer video game developers whose radical, experimental, vibrant, and deeply queer work is driving a momentous shift in the medium of video games. Speaking with insight and candor about their creative practices as well as their politics and passions, these influential and innovative game makers tell stories about their lives and inspirations, the challenges they face, and the ways they understand their places within the wider terrain of video game culture. Their insights go beyond typical conversations about LGBTQ representation in video games or how to improve “diversity” in digital media. Instead, they explore queer game-making practices, the politics of queer independent video games, how queerness can be expressed as an aesthetic practice, the influence of feminist art on their work, and the future of queer video games and technology. These engaging conversations offer a portrait of an influential community that is subverting and redefining the medium of video games by placing queerness front and center.
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