Past Events > November 12-13 + 19-20, 2022
The Museum of Human Achievement, 3600 Lyons Road, Austin, TX 78702
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Imagine you’re the most popular kid in school. So popular, in fact, that you’re dating every single person in your class. The only problem? You’ve decided to break up with all of them, one by one. HEARTBREAK HIGH is an arcade-style spin on visual novels and dating simulators that asks you to break up with all of your high school sweethearts instead of woo them. A single play-through can be completed in one 20-40 minute sitting, with each break-up featuring a unique branching story path and lovable (or unlovable?) characters for you to crush beneath your feet over and over again.
Alec Robbins is a cartoonist, writer, comedian, and game developer living in Los Angeles. His works include the Ignatz-award winning comic Mr. Boop and the sexy sci-fi caper CRIMEHOT.
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Small Talk is an interactive narrative game that takes place at a party at the end of the world. It features surreal characters in a hybrid 2D/3D environment. The game touches on themes of connection, loss, loneliness, dread and others in a variety of vignettes.
Austin, TX developers Gabrielle Genevieve & Christopher Chappelear are working on Small Talk in collaboration with musician Emily E Meo.
Squinky and the Squinkettes present: SECOND PUBERTY is an album/collection of seven short games, created over the course of two years, about various feelings surrounding medically transitioning in my thirties and dealing with isolation during a pandemic.
D. Squinkifer is a queer game designer and regular ordinary human. They are the co-founders of Soft Chaos, a worker-owned cooperative that creates critically-engaged, intimate, vulnerable, and unique interactive experiences. Their work includes experimental video games, tabletop games, larps, art installations, and interactive performances.
Hi, I’m D. Squinkifer, queer game designer and regular ordinary human, and this is where I live on the internet.
I’m one of the cofounders of Soft Chaos, a worker-owned cooperative that creates critically-engaged, intimate, vulnerable, and unique interactive experiences. Our work includes experimental videogames, tabletop games, larps, art installations, and interactive performances.
You can also check out my solo projects on itch.io, the most recent of which is a videogame album called Squinky and the Squinkettes present: SECOND PUBERTY.
I’ve developed a healthy disdain for social media over the years, so should you wish to communicate with me, email is probably best.
Having been in long periods of isolation since the beginning of last year, I began to interrogate my relationship to my body, gender and sexuality. “They Dream of Shapeless Bodies” is the time capsule of that journey. In it, I invite the player to witness the discomfort of my introspection in three different soliloquies. Each conversation features an environment that attempts to illustrate the unease, ecstasy and strife of my self actualization as a black trans person. In this game, you cannot win or lose. You CAN touch but you cannot destroy.
Temitope Olujobi is a Queer Nigerian-American Architect turned Game Designer using their design practice to visualize speculative environments, featuring powerful quixotic visions of resistance that depict a world without hierarchies. They began their indulgence into 3D digital art in the Second Life modification community, making freakishly delightful virtual dwellings for the residents.
Art Director and Lead Environment Artist at Ivy Road Games
Spend your teenage years on an alien planet in this narrative RPG with card-based battles. Explore, grow up, and fall in love. The choices you make and skills you master over ten years will determine the course of your life and the survival of your colony. The Choices You Make, Make You.
Finji: Our Mission is to make new games and create new opportunities. We are based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, but collaborate with talented individuals from all over the place. Reborn in 2014, Finji was originally founded by Adam and Rebekah Saltsman in 2006. We are passionate game makers who sometimes work odd hours, but we practice inclusive team policies that support good quality of life (no crunch), and provide significant revenue shares for all team members.
Northway Games: We are Sarah and Colin Northway, partners in life and in indie game development. We’re originally from BC Canada, but have lived all over the world including Thailand, Japan, Turkey, Czech Republic, Italy, Malta, Scotland, France, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, The Philippines, Argentina and Brazil. We meet up with local indie game authors wherever we go, and are inspired by the cultures and climates we visit. We’re now back in Vancouver, Canada, and mostly stationary for now.
LESBIAN DEVIL-HUNTING ACTION!! Mammon City can be a rough place to live. Devils are everywhere, and the only decent job in town is hunting them down. Take charge of Sophie, sword priestess and generally anxious mess, and Anna, fire witch and localized disaster, as they fight, flirt, and try to pay the rent. Hunt horrifying devils, confront your corrupt employer, uncover the horrible secrets behind Mammon City, and prove that evil doesn’t stand a chance against the power of girlfriends.
BOSSGAME: The Final Boss Is My Heart is a lesbian romance boss rush! Sophie and Anna are broke and trying to pay rent by hunting devils. Fight colorful bosses, flirt with your girlfriend, and uncover the mysteries of Mammon City in this lightning-fast action game!
A one-woman indie game studio run by Lily Valeen. I make lightning-fast action games about queer women.
Dream Daddy is a game where you play as a Dad and your goal is to meet and romance other hot Dads. You and your daughter have just moved into the sleepy seaside town of Maple Bay only to discover that everyone in your neighborhood is a single, dateable Dad! Will you go out with Teacher Dad? Goth Dad? Bad Dad? Or any of the other cool Dads in this game? With minigames, sidequests, and a variety of paths and endings, Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator is this year’s most anticipated Dad-based game.
Game Grumps is an in-house game development and publishing studio. We are focused on creating fun and exciting games. I mean, what the heck else would we be interested in?
Games Y'all is a meetup presented by The Museum of Human Achievement. We endeavor to celebrate, amplify, and support the unique and underrepresented within indie games and beyond.