‘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.
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.
My Bitsy game ‘stand up’ is part of the Official Selection at Pride at Play, an exhibition that celebrates thoughtful queer games. Pride at Play is being held until 24 June 2023 at Carlisle Street Arts Space, St Kilda Town Hall, Melbourne.
This Saturday 17 June in Melbourne, I’ll be taking part in two awesome in-person events, kicking off from 1pm!
Readings @ Pride at Play will feature readings from Al Gallagher, Briar Rolfe, Jini Maxwell, Josie/Jocelyn Deane, Mohamed Chamas, and myself.
While the Queer Gamedev Talks: Personal Queer Games Panel will feature Logan Timmins, Elliot Herriman, Luke Millar and myself, alongside moderator Jae Stuart, discussing the creation of personal queer games and our works.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Thank you Pride at Play for interviewing me about ‘stand up’ as part of their Exhibition Catalogue – available on their website prideatplay.org
Reserve your free tickets to Pride at Play from 21 February to 4 March at Sydney College of the Arts Project Space.
Unable to attend the in-person exhibition? You can also play many of the games online for free at prideatplay.org
My award winning poem-game ‘stand up’ will be part of the amazing Pride at Play – an exhibition that celebrates thoughtful queer games – alongside so many talented fellow creatives and game makers.
Head to the Pride at Play website for more info.
So incredibly happy to announce ‘stand up’ has been awarded the Woollahra Digital Literary Award for Digital Innovation!
You can explore ‘stand up’ on the Backslash Lit website.
A huge thank you to judge Brett Osmond for choosing ‘stand up’ as the winner. I’m honestly so blown away and delighted and grateful!
Thank you also to Woollahra Libraries, publisher Backslash Lit, and of course to Tegan Webb who helped me draft and redraft ‘stand up’ in Bitsy.
The trans experience is one that’s so often defined in media, by governments, as one simple / single / matter-of-fact / impersonal Medical Procedure.
‘stand up’ is an interactive poem which explores this idea, and the notion of what it really means to be trans. Because being trans isn’t just about one single thing.
Being trans is about breathing, loving and being; and, in ‘stand up’, it’s about finding small joys and knowing you are loved.
Rae White 