‘stand up’ got an honourable mention in 2024 Freeplay Awards! The accolades for this little Bitsy game just keep on coming and I’m so incredibly proud.
Huge congrats to all the nominees, and a big thank you to this year’s judges!
More info, including the full list of fabulous nominees, can be found on the Freeplay website.
Tiny Spoon, Issue 11: Emergence features my art on the front cover! Head to tinyspoon.org to grab a copy.
revival and revival {remixed}, 2023, are both digital photo collages.
Take what you have,
take more, take more,
take care, intake water,
grow grow
g r o w
These digital artworks collage and manipulate my own photos and images from the public domain. Using depictions of flowers and plants blooming and growing, I wanted to illustrate the transgender journey of ongoing emergence – – – of resurrection, trans-regeneration, rebirth, trans-revival.
Tiny Spoon Issue 11: Emergence, released Fall/Winter 2023 is their second perfect bound edition that contains a myriad of creative work exploring emergence / emergent / emergency.
Issue 11: Emergence also features work from: Rachel Becker, A. Benét, Melanie Bryant, Ash(ley) Michelle C., Kelly Corinda, Megan Jauregui Eccles, Joanna Englert, Josh Gaydos, Jessica Heron, Janis Butler Holm, Victoria Hood, Ani Jones, Dominic Loise, Brice Maiurro, Michelle Meyer, Jason R. Montgomery, Michelle Naka Pierce, Iñaki Oñate, Lesley Rogers Hobbs, Karen Sadler, Mara Sedlins, Kanchi Sharma, Jennifer Alyn Sheets, Robert Eric Shoemaker, Siobhán, Bean Sprouts, Verna Zafra-Kasala, and Ariel Zhang.
Oh wow! Only just found out ‘stand up’ was a shortlisted title in the 2023 Queer Games Festival awards in Naarm/Melbourne!
A huge thank you to the judges for shortlisting my game. Find out more and check out the other amazing queer games on the MQGF website.
This little game about trans joy has made it further than I ever could’ve expected. Thank you so much to everyone who’s played it and shared it. 💖🌈
From being originally published in Backslash Lit – Issue 6 – ‘ZIP / FREEZE / BUNDLE’, ‘stand up’ us gone on to win the 2022 Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation, been part of the Official Selection – Pride at Play 2023, supported financially by the incredible Queer Games Bundle 2022, and featured in Indiepocalypse #44.
Also, since ‘stand up’ I’ve released two more Bitsy games (‘forage. found’ and ‘queer picnic’) which you can play for free on my itch page.
Rae White 