Straight!? is included in the 2024 Queer Games Festival Showcase

Hey all,

So I don't do this very often but I wanted to share some exciting news.

I woke up today to find that Straight!? has been included in the 2024 Queer Games Festival in Melbourne. This is an annual festival that features mostly indie projects with queer themes or developed by queer creators. This is a great place to discover new creators and projects and it's both humbling and exciting to even appear within a showcase for an awards ceremony.

This year there are 70 featured projects by developers that you can find in the link above. Ultimately, the judges will whittle this list down to a handful of finalists with ultimately one featured winner this year. The fact that queer games are getting an ever-increasingly bright spotlight is a win for all of us to be seen, heard, and validated within the scope of a polarized world.

We did this together. You. All of us.

I already posted this link on social media and some of you have reached out to ask if you can support Straight!? within the festival. Unfortunately, there's no way to "vote" on your favorite project. The grading is all done internally.

However, what you can do is to take a moment to check out the link above and scroll through to take a look at the other featured projects for 2024. Being an indie developer is hard-- getting exposure is hard-- so this is a great way to support our cause, find new stories and projects, and throw your energy behind other developers that are tirelessly pecking away at their keyboards by the moonlight.

Thank you to all of you that have supported this project in any way. I'm not talking about just monetary, either. All of you. Even downloading this story helps. Reading it helps. Rating it on websites and sharing it with your friends helps. All of you, your support, your energy, letters, and comments continue to make this one of the most incredible periods of my life.

Again and always, thank you for walking with me.

-Aaryn 🤙