Matthew R.F. Balousek
Hi, I'm Matthew R.F. Balousek. I'm a queer game designer and new media artist living in the NYC area.
You can support me at any level on Patreon for digital access to my back-catalog, as well as access to new projects as they're released.
For physical copies of my zines, I send those out on or around the start of each month. For bulk discounts on zines or other arrangements, feel free to contact me.
some playful inklings
Eighteen invitations to play.
A game about telling ridiculous stories together.
Twenty-five games of all sorts and sundries.
Thirty-five small games.
A queer alternative history of videogames.
Ace pilots at odds and in love.
Queer fanfic and FAQs for FF7.
An approach to queer game design.
Two games about death on the frontier.
A Hive of Mechanical Wasps: a series of procedural poetry
A series of Markov chain poetry. Seven installments are planned.
Diary entries.
Moby-Dick, Chapter 1: Loomings.
Talking to each other through poetry.
Queer fanfic and FAQs for FF7.
Opening the Horse: an approach to queer game design
Part of my MFA thesis work, Opening the Horse has three main parts: a framework for understanding how media can be considered queer an approach to game design that leverages that framework to make games that function as trojan horses three...
A game about stylish heroism, inspired by Power Rangers and Sailor Moon.
Two games about death on the frontier.
A game about magic and community.
An approach to queer game design.
