6/19/2023 0 Comments Queerness in Play by Todd Harper![]() ![]() Polygon spoke to a number of commentators and queer-identifying game developers about the game, and to its developer Michael Patrick. ![]() It was due to be self-published by Handsome Woman this month but has been delayed, according to a company spokesperson, "due to interest in the brand from a large organization." No firm release date has been announced. The game has attracted media interest, some positive, some not. It is, undoubtedly, aiming for humor, although not everyone is seeing the funny side. Each character wields a comedic 'gaytality' move that makes reference to common LGBT jokes.Īt a time when video games are tentatively beginning to offer up portrayals of gay characters, carefully introduced by developers keen to play fair and to seem cautiously even-handed, it is a sparkling rainbow of a game, splashing about in campy iconography with abandon. In Ultimate Gay Fighter, a forthcoming brawler for iOS and Android, players take on the role of a variety of iconic gay caricatures, including a drag queen, a butch lesbian, an Asian 'twink', a gym bunny, a golden-chain wearing African-American rapper and a drunken bisexual woman. But some reactions to the game's pre-launch publicity have been hostile, charging the 2D fighter with heavy-handed use of cliché and a narrow view of the LGBT world. Ultimate Gay Fighter is pitched as celebration of gay culture. ![]()
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