Accidental Queens

Accidental Queens is made up of Diane (our programmer), Miryam (our artist), Simon (our project manager), and a range of partners we work with depending on our project needs: screenwriters, sound designers, game designers, artists…

Each of our game is centered on a specific theme: LGBTQ+ experiences, violence against women, our relationship with data… The gaming spaces we offer to our players invites them to have fun, to explore a universe and, finally, to question themselves and launch the premises of a personal reflection around a precise subject. If the situations that our characters go through are fictional, the themes and the reflection that follows are directly transposable to the real world. We don’t have a principal “issue” that would be central to our work but the issues of representation and diversity are very important to us.

Our games draw heavily on everyday devices, from smartphones to radios. We focus on the ways we use them, which gives them a fun side and we use them to tell stories. In our creative approach we believe that day-to-day life is our biggest source of inspiration!

We believe video games provide a new form of narration. They help address issues from a new angle which are already found in other sources of media (books, movies, etc.). In “A Normal Lost Phone,” for instance, you really get the impression you are investigating a mystery via a telephone. Despite the distance the game’s visual style might create, its format blurs boundaries between fiction and reality.

Accidental Queens was founded by three women. It is a video game studio that uses innovative tools of narration to explore everyday matters and societal issues. Gender deconstruction, digital intimacy, and fake news are just three of the themes its games address. “Normal Lost Phone,” “Another Lost Phone: Laura’s Story,” and “Alt-Frequencies” have won awards at many festivals.