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The Stupid, the Ridiculous, the Camp: How Goat Simulator's “Messy” Design Facilitates Queer Play

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Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media

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Abstract

Games and Culture, Volume 21, Issue 4, Page 828-848, June 2026.
This article identifies the queer potentialities ofGoat Simulatorby exploring how the gameplay mechanics can be understood as “stupid” and “Camp.” Moving away from representational notions of queerness, I argue that queering a game requires an ...