Queer Games Bundle interview series wrap and statistics
The Queer Games Bundle is a collection of nearly 600 items by LGBTQ+ creators and teams, nearly 400 of which are independent video games, all sold for just $60. The bundle is over now, but you can still buy all the games.
In the last few weeks, I did 59 interviews with game developers from the 2022 Queer Games Bundle.
I talked with a total of 71 individuals and studios.
The average number of years making games is about 5.75. The lowest was just a few months, while the highest was 27 years.
Almost everyone’s favorite part of making games is early in the process: worldbuilding, creating, planning. Almost everyone’s least favorite part is later: programming, debugging, marketing.
Here’s a word cloud with the themes and genres people mentioned. (This is an art, not a science; read the interviews!)
Here are the tools people like to use. (Some of these are plugins for other products listed.)
Ren’Py (21)
Unity (20)
RPG Maker products (12)
Clip Studio Paint (12)
Twine (10)
Adobe Photoshop (9)
Aseprite (8)
Game Maker products (7)
Google Drive products (6)
Blender (6)
ink (5)
Godot (5)
Audacity (5)
TyranoBuilder (4)
custom tools (4)
Bitsy (4)
GB Studio (3)
Procreate (2)
PICO-8 (2)
Paint.NET (2)
Microsoft Word (2)
LMMS (2)
JavaScript (2)
Adobe Illustrator (2)
FL Studio (2)
After Effects (2)
ActionScript
Adobe Audition
Adobe Substance Painter
Affinity
App Inventor
Atom
Bfxr
Bosca Ceoil
Campfire
Chatterbox
Clickteam Fusion
Daz3D
Deflemask
draw.io
Microsoft Excel
FireAlpaca
FlashPunk
GIMP
GraphicsGale
Haxe
HTML5
Iclone
Inform
KateLabs
Moho 13
Naninovel
Notepad++
OHRRPGCE
Paint 3D
Paint Tool Sai
Phaser
PixiJS
Playmaker
PowerPoint
Premiere
PuzzleScript
Python
REAPER
Reaper
Renoise
Rider
Scratch
Scrivener
Sketchup
Tinkercad
Trello
TypeScript
Visual Scripting
Visual Studio
WebStorm
Wolf RPG
Yarn
Here are the games people said affected them recently. I was moved by how many are also in the Queer Games Bundle:
He fucked the girl out of me (4)
Disco Elysium (4)
Final Fantasy XIV (3)
Hardcoded (2)
Hades (2)
Elden Ring (2)
Chicory (2)
A Potion for Chamomile
A Tavern for Tea
Alice’s Awakening
An Outcry
Aoishiro
Blue Reflection: Second Light
Caligula Effect 2
Citizen Sleeper
Coffee Talk
Cozy Grove
CrossCode
Cruelty Squad
Detroit Become Human
Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
Doki Doki Literature Club
Dragon Age: Origins
Ensemble Stars
Famicom Detective Club
Far Cry 5
Fate/Grand Order
Final Fantasy XV
Flowers
Forgotten City
Franken
Fuzz Dungeon
Ghost Story
HITME
House in Fata Morgana
I accidently insulted a witch…
Inscryption
Journey
King of Fighters XV
Kingdom Hearts
Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Knight Bewitched
Last of Us Part II
Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Life is Strange
Manifest No
Manifold Garden
Mass Effect
MIND Psychometry
NORCO
OMORI
Perfect Tides
Perseids
Persona 4
Phenomena
Pillars on Poppy Hills
Signalis demo
Signs of the Sojourner
Soda Drinker Pro
Spiritfarer
spirits mirror::digital possessed
Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
Star Wars KOTOR
Strange Horticulture
Super Mario Galaxy
Synergia
Tell Me Why
Terranova
Tokimeki Memorial
Unsighted
We Know the Devil
What Remains of Edith Finch
Yume Nikki
Working on this interview series was a real pleasure for me. If you have questions about anything, let me know. You can read all the interviews here.
