"The in-depth, diverse, and accessible essays in Queer Game Studies use queerness to challenge the ideas that have dominated gaming discussions. This volume reveals the capacious albeit underappreciated communities that are making, playing, and studying queer games, demonstrating the centrality of LGBTQ issues to the gamer world and establishing an alternative lens for examining this increasingly important culture."--Provided by the publisher Provided by publisher.

Introduction: Imagining queer game studies / Adrienne Shaw and Bonnie Ruberg -- Defining queerness in games. What is queerness in games, anyway? / Naomi Clark -- Queergaming / Edmond Y. Chang -- Queer theory, the body, and video games / Derek A. Burrill -- Queering games history: complexities, chaos, and community / Zoya Street -- Queering game play and design. Ending the cycle: developing a board game to engage people in social justice issues / Peter Wonica -- Playing outside / Leigh Alexander -- Building a queer mythology / Hanna Brady -- For play? Literacy ludics and sexual politics / Aubrey Gabel -- Play and be real about it: what games could learn from kink / Mattie Brice -- Queering the snapshot: ambient mobile play / Larissa Hjorth and Kim d'Amazing -- Reading games queerly. On "FeministWhorePurna" and the ludo-material politics of gendered damage power-ups in open-work RPG video games / Robert Yang -- Welcome to my fantasy zone: Bayonetta and queer femme disturbance / Amanda Phillips -- Role-play as queer lens: how "closetShep" changed my vision of Mass Effect / Todd Harper -- Queer(ing) gaming technologies: thinking on constructions of normativity inscribed in digital gaming hardware / Gregory L. Bagnall -- On Gone Home / Merritt Kopas -- Queer failures in games. The trouble with communities / Adrienne Shaw -- "Play like a girl": gender expression, sexual identity, and complex expectations in a female-oriented gaming community / Gabriela T. Richard -- The nightmare is over / Katherine Cross -- Queer gaming: gaming, hacking, and going turbo / Jack Halberstam -- The arts of failure: Jack Halberstam in conversation with Jespur Juul / moderated by Bonnie Ruberg -- "I wouldn't even know the real me myself": Queering failure in Metal Gear Solid 2 / Jordan Youngblood -- Queer futures for games. If queer children were a video game / Kathryn Bond Stockton -- Queer growth in video games / Christopher Goetz -- Finding the queerness in games / Colleen Macklin -- Organizing new approaches to games: an interview with Chelsea Howe, Toni Rocca, and Sarah Schoemann / moderated by Bonnie Ruberg -- Forty-eight-hour utopia: On hope and the future of queerness in games / Bonnie Ruberg.