Archive identity
About Press Q
Press Q is a digital humanities prototype for reading queer game representation through the Press Q dataset, visual analytics, and AI-assisted querying through Quiu.
Description
Press Q is an AI-Assisted Queer Game Archive for exploring queer representation in video games.
The project combines structured character data, visual analytics, and natural language querying to examine identity, playability, narrative role, intersectionality, developers, release years, and evidence sources.
Press Q is designed as a living archive interface: a way to make patterns of queer game representation easier to explore while keeping the Press Q dataset grounded, structured, and reviewable.
Goal
Representation
Make queer video game characters more visible through structured, searchable data.
Goal
Research
Support analysis of identity, playability, narrative role, intersectionality, and representation quality.
Goal
Access
Create a public-facing interface where users can ask questions about queer game characters naturally.
Research framework
A guided archive, not an unrestricted chatbot.
Press Q is informed by queer game studies, representation studies, and digital humanities approaches to data visualization.
The Press Q dataset includes fields such as character name, game title, release year, developer, gender, sexuality, identity category, playability, narrative role, intersectionality, and evidence.
Quiu answers using only the Press Q dataset, allowing the assistant to work as a focused research interface.