A newly launched assortment of magic-themed video video games and different content material from queer creators guarantees “witchcraft and wizardry with out the transphobia, antisemitism, and alt-right grifters.”
Curated by gaming outlet KRITIQAL, the Trans Witches Are Witches gaming bundle was created in response to Friday’s broad launch of the “Harry Potter” online game Hogwarts Legacy. The extremely anticipated sport has been marred with controversy because it was first introduced greater than two years in the past, resulting from “Harry Potter” creator J.Ok. Rowling’s outspoken views on the transgender community, which many have known as transphobic.
Whereas Rowling was indirectly concerned within the improvement of Hogwarts Legacy, in keeping with the game’s official website, the sport’s launch ignited protests and boycotts.
The Trans Witches Are Witches bundle consists of 69 magic-themed video video games, tabletop video games, brief tales, zines, soundtracks and extra, together with What’s Wrong With the Girls’ Staircase, a sport set in a college of witchcraft and wizardry, and “Casting Hearts,” a “visible novel about magic, anxiousness, and connection.”
The bundle, which will be bought for $60 (across the similar price as the usual version of Hogwarts Legacy), raised greater than $120,000 as of Tuesday afternoon. A lower-price Apprentice Edition bundle, which incorporates 66 objects for $10, raised an extra $15,000.
Each bundles will be bought on itch.io till Feb. 24, and proceeds will probably be break up evenly among the many dozens of LGBTQ creators concerned, in keeping with the organizers of the bundles.
