Site Event Famiboards Pride Event

[Suswave]

IT'S HERE! IT'S QUEER! IT'S ONCE A YEAR!

Welcome to the OFFICIAL Famiboards Pride Event, brought to you by @VolcanicDynamo, @Leo, @Suswave, @Clov, @Phosphorescent Skeleton, @Tangerine_Cookie, and @Zellia.

This is a celebration of queer, trans, and non-binary art — and, well, other queer nods — in our medium of choice. But really... this event is all about YOU, Famiboards!

In the vast tangle of online gaming discourse, we have a special place here. Let's revel in the cascade and have a blast together, all in the name of queer joy... and also prizes!

You could win up to SIXTY-FOUR brand-new @Suswave-designed badges... maybe more... imagine...

As far as we know... this is the most badges EVER in a Famiboards Event!

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You Know the Rules, and So Do I

It's a fabulously familiar format: play silly games, win silly prizes!

For each game, we'll be asking for Photo Proof — frequently clarified by our own effervescent plumber, @VolcanicDynamo — and plan to dole out heaps of stylish badges at the end.

We run through all of June! It's a month-long party and you're invited.

No, really — we are OPEN TO BADGE SUGGESTIONS — so if you have some delightfully (or tragically) queer content you'd like highlighted... let us know!

We can't promise fast turnaround, nor can we promise that every badge will be made real (unless you want to work poor @Suswave to an early and/or overdue grave) — but we'd love your suggestions!

A Note About Photo Proof

Since we have a massive number of badges — some of which are from games we haven't actually finished — we will be clarifying and adding Photo Proof details AFTER posting, and may modify them as needed.

Please let us know if a description is unclear — we'll do our best to clarify!

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The Badges

Here they are! If you're here early... I need at least the first four posts to list them all, so hold off on comments until then! Thank you!

Badgelistings
	Capture the Flag Take a snapshot that includes any pride flags in a video game.
	Countryside Wedding Get married to your sweetheart in a Farming Sim game.
	Fight Back! Finish a Fighting game using a queer character.
	From Queer Creators, with Love Finish any game developed by out and proud queer creators and allies.
	Scratching an Itch Complete one queer-themed game on Itch.io.
	Variety is the Spice of Life Romance at least 3 different characters across one or more Dating Sim games.
	Adventurous Egg Get 32 eggs in Animal Well.
	Phone Home Finish A Normal Lost Phone.
	Rainbow Crabitalism Buy the Rainbow Crabitalism outfit in Another Crab's Treasure.
	A Sweet Treat in Dark Times Chat up Maki the baker in Arzette: The Jewel of Faramore.
	Stories From Queer Women Finish A Year of Springs.
	Queens Reunite Lizbert and Eggabell in Bugsnax.
	Together Alone Finish Chapter 6 in Celeste.
	Strawb GET! Collect all 30 Strawberries in Celete 64: Fragments of the Mountain.
	This Colorful World Finish Chicory: A Colorful Tale and enjoy Lena Raine's award-winning soundtrack.
	Homosexual Underground Complete the Homosexual Underground Thought in Disco Elysium.

 

[Suswave]

Badgelistings
	Man With A Fork in a World of Soup Get Gaston (or René) to reveal their true love in Disco Elysium.
	New Vegas Tourism Board Take a screenshot of your favorite location in Fallout: New Vegas.
	A Little Fruity Finish Garden Story.
	Breaking the Loop Reach the True Ending in Gnosia.
	Rainbow Clicker Press at least one of each switch in Alla Brace's Death Maze — Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple — in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	They're So Cool Find the second fridge in an attempt to impress Smooth Terry, a non-binary icon, in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Crimes of Fashion Toss the Ugly Loafers into the lake in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Comforting Company Keep Socks company — she'll thank you for it! — in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Ally of the Century Learn the history of Shorenuff through wall art in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Horse Can Work This Give Horse a fashionable new hat in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	No Cops At Pride Finish Grunt's side quest in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Bingo Bonanza Talk to all of the following (publicly) queer Tweeps at least once — Boz, Postal Kim, Nuna, Quert, Cello, Mel, Birfday, Choy, Nimlok, Smooth Terry, Socks, Wren, and Drae — in Grögol Bonanza: Rambler's Apéritif.
	Romance Is Hell Complete one (or more) romance questlines in Hades.
	Bugbear Get the Happy Couple achievement in Hollow Knight.
	Bury Your Greys Complete the Grey Mourner's quest in Hollow Knight.
	On My Way Soon Reunite Cloth & Nola in Hollow Knight.

 

[Suswave]

Badgelistings
	Fifty-Seven Precepts but a Beetle Ain't One Get Bretta to leave Zote behind in Hollow Knight.
	They Were Roommates Wake up in the Guardian's bed in Hyper Light Drifter.
	Puppy Slay Defeat the Hierophant with the Alternate Drifter in Hyper Light Drifter.
	Lifestyles I Find Jas in the Café in Hypnospace Outlaw.
	Lifestyles II Find Linda in the Freelands in Hypnospace Outlaw.
	Kasio Tone Finish If Found...
	A Better School of Magic Defeat the final boss and reach the credits in Ikenfell.
	Beau Tidings Finish In Stars and Time.
	Express Yourself Finish any Life is Strange or Tell Me Why game.
	Thoroughly Gay Get all the collectibles from a Life is Strange game – Pictures for Life Is Strange, Collectibles + Drawings for Life Is Strange 2, Memories for True Colors.
	Drama Queen Finish Life is Strange, Life is Strange 2, and Life is Strange True Colors.
	Taste the Rainbow Get first place in at least 4 different Rainbow Road tracks across one or more Mario Kart games.
	Proud Racer Beat the 150cc staff ghosts for all Rainbow Road tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
	Rainbow Runner Beat the 200cc staff ghosts for all Rainbow Road tracks in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
	Estrogen Hunter Get every E Tank in a Metroid game.
	Be Gay, Do Crime! Finish Night in the Woods.

 

[Suswave]

Badgelistings
	Your Best Worst Nightmare Finish the Campaign in Nightmare Kart.
	Out of the Shadows Complete Chapter 4 of Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.
	Bisexual Lighting Finish Sayonara Wild Hearts.
	Red Eye Over Penrose Reach the Artifact Ending in Signalis.
	Unconscience Rescue Marina from the Spire of Order in Splatoon 3.
	#47 Onward Clear the Spire of Order once with any weapon in Splatoon 3.
	#9 Party Complete Side Order with all palettes and learn about Acht and Marina's past in Splatoon 3.
	Summer Showers Take Summer through the Everdoor in Spiritfarer.
	So Long, Gay Bowser Finish Super Mario 64.
	Shall I Smash You, Despair? Complete Classic Mode in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as Shirtless Sephiroth.
	Testosterone Hawk Get the T from SKATE in every level of a Tony Hawk's Pro Skater game.
	Hot In Here Successfully Spare Royal Guard 01 and Royal Guard 02 in Undertale.
	Sunrise Sunset Take Alphys and Undyne to the beach in Undertale.
	Handsome Reward Premiere Mettaton's new body – and survive – in Undertale.
	Meowing Into Primetime Fight the Switch-exclusive secret boss – or meet the same character in the Xbox casino – in Undertale.
	Unpacking a Life Finish Stage 8: 2018 of Unpacking.

 

[Suswave]

Reserved for Community-Suggested Badges.

 

[Suswave]

Hmm. Seems like BBCode tables have betrayed me a tad... formatting may be improved at a later date!

Update: Fixed by adding "Badgelistings" as a header. Is this fake-ass word ridiculous? Yes. Does it work? Also yes.

 

[Mbolibombo]

Bravo,

I should participate this time around - A few of these games have been on my to-play list for far too long.

 

[EvilChameleon]

Are we to wait for the post detailing the photo proof requirements, or can we start firing off salvos right away?

 

[Yamanoi]

You put so much effort into this, it is incredible. I'm sorry to break character to just say thank you for your work here.

 

[Brock Reiher]

Love these badges! Gonna try for So Long Gay Bowser.

 

[meatbag]

Oooh I'm currently playing Unpacking, I can probably gun for that badge. Also holy hell that's a lot of badges. I'll need to take some time to sift through them. And uhh redownload some games, I'm not sure I can even provide picture proof for some of them lololol

 

[Deleted member 1081]

Shirtless Sephiroth. Finally.

 

[Suswave]

Are we to wait for the post detailing the photo proof requirements, or can we start firing off salvos right away?

Please go ahead! Again, we're still working on clarifying these... there are quite a few! It'll normally be things like Screenshot of End Credits or equivalent.

The only stipulation is you have to reach the specified event during the challenge – not necessarily redo the whole thing, but if you just beat a final boss... beat them again for your screenshot, etc!

For sillier quests with multiple items, we'll tend to want a screenshot for each component.

Good luck to all!

 

[chocolate_supra]

I was gonna ask if completing the Grögol Bonanza demo on itch.io counted for Scratching an Itch cuz I wanted to give the game a shout-out but then I kept scrolling and saw actual Grögol-themed badges and was like

 

[oomoepoo]

What's this? An excuse to replay Hollow Knight?! Don't mind if I do

 

[Josh5890]

Awesome event. Thank you for doing this! I will be after a few badges

 

[BlackthornOrion]

oh cool, an excuse to replay Metroid Dread

 

[Maronic03]

First, let me repost the classic, as usual:



And now, a little bonus:

 

[Metroid]

What a coincidence that this goes up as I enter chapter 4 of TTYD...

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

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[Sheldon]

These are very good.

"Estrogen Hunter" in particular got me. Will never think of E-Tanks the same again but will giggle everytime I pick one up now.

 

[Sadist]

Shirtless Sephiroth and completing Chapter 4 of Paper Mario here I come

 

[meatbag]

What's this? An excuse to replay Hollow Knight?! Don't mind if I do

I'm actually kinda sad that I don't understand the badge requirements for Hollow Knight, and I even got 93% completion for that game lol

 

[BozPaggs]

Brb hunting for estrogen

 

[EvilChameleon]

Right then, something I did real quick. My friends and I from another website do a Minecraft server every year, so I popped in and added some subtle pride...

Spoiler

and some not so subtle pride...

Spoiler

to my house. I'm woeful with banners, and one year one of my servermates did the ace pride flag on one, and he has done it ever since, since I still don't know how to do that, so I settle for gigantic flags made of wool. This should qualify for the first badge on the list!

 

[kirbyfan407]

This is wonderful stuff! Thanks, Suswave! I've accomplished some of these already but don't think I have the proof. Others would be doable but I'm focused on getting through my current backlog. Basically, while these badges are awesome, I sadly kind of doubt I'll participate. Still, the effort and organization are very appreciated! Fami family.

 

[lattjeful]

These badges are so sick! Thanks Suswave for your efforts, and happy Pride everybody! All love. <3

 

[Yavga]

do these badges come with fami moolah? if so... sigh, this will be a gargantuan undertaking (save me) congratulations on the challenge through, well thought out and fun challenges!

oh and... I expect the ultimate rainbow badge for clearing the whole lot!

 

[Sheldon]

I'm actually kinda sad that I don't understand the badge requirements for Hollow Knight, and I even got 93% completion for that game lol

I understand all but one them. Gonna have to check whether I got the achievments on my playthrough, because I think at least one I haven't and it's not that much work. At least not compared to beating Hollow Knight again...

 

[rickyson33]

dunno if i'll actually participate or not but I just wanted to say damn that's a lot of badges nice job on this thread

 

[Legion of Primes]

Can I somehow fit mass effect into the dating sim badge?

 

[oomoepoo]

I'm actually kinda sad that I don't understand the badge requirements for Hollow Knight, and I even got 93% completion for that game lol

I understand all but one them. Gonna have to check whether I got the achievments on my playthrough, because I think at least one I haven't and it's not that much work. At least not compared to beating Hollow Knight again...

Happy Couple is Not killing the Nail Smith after getting all the upgrades
The one with Cloth is... I'm not completely sure but I assume (late game Hollow Knight) something to do with her dying agains the Traitor because her significant other she mentions when you dream nail her is implied to be dead
Grey Mourner is the Flower Quest
and the last one is beating dream Zote (I'm not doing that lol, I frigging hate that fight)

 

[Maronic03]

Wait a minute, I just started to play In Stars and Time. I may end up getting one for once.

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

Yes...it's finally here! I'm so excited to see this event pulled off. Thank you to all of my fellow collaborators on this event - you went above and beyond to make this such a big event. Happy Pride!! 🩷

Are we to wait for the post detailing the photo proof requirements, or can we start firing off salvos right away?

Go for it! I'll try to make as specific Picture Proof as I can, but like...we're people, we can understand nuance and stuff.

 

[oldpuck]

This is a great thread, and an excuse to return to True Colors, a game I started but didn't complete for Entirely Personal Reasons.

 

[shoptroll]

This is glorious, excellent work! Will see what I can pull off.

 

[Suswave]

I'm actually kinda sad that I don't understand the badge requirements for Hollow Knight, and I even got 93% completion for that game lol

They're a tiny bit vague... but only a tiny bit. Most of them are completely optional in Hollow Knight, but I've worded them carefully for spoiler-avoidance...

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

And hey, I do have some of the badges already done! Last night, I finished Out of the Shadows:

Spoiler: Out of the Shadows

...and I finished a run with the Octo Shot Replica in Side Order, and since you need to save Marina and finish runs with every other palette to do this, this counts for Unconscience, #47 Onward and #9 Party!

Spoiler: Splatoon Badges

Let's be loud and proud, Fami!

 

[Plum]

Amazing event @Suswave! Really great work. The sheer variety of badges here is incredible I'll try and get a few of them, at least; maybe even more!

I've got some suggestions for some asexual-related badges! I'd be fine even making the badges myself, if I got the template for them

Party with Parvati
Come out as asexual to fellow Ace, Parvati, in 'The Outer Worlds'

A Match Made in SpAce
Finish Parvati's questline in 'The Outer Worlds'

What's Black, Grey, White, and Purple all over?
Finish a level in 'De Blob 1 or 2' using mostly Purple paint.

I Don't Want to be Horny Anymore, I Just Want to Conquer Earth!
Starting as an asexual ruler, conquer another country in 'Crusader Kings 3'

Unequivocally, Unilaterally, Undeniably Better than Sex
In any game that has it as an item, acquire a piece of garlic bread

The Ace of Spades and Clubs and Diamonds and Hearts...
Get a hand with all 4 Aces in Balatro

Don't know if these are all possible, but they're all that I can really think of when it comes to actual ace representation/plays on some of the big asexual memes.

 

[EvilChameleon]

And thanks to this event, I finally dug back into Side Order and cleared it with a new weapon for the first time in months, for the #47 Onward badge.

Spoiler

 

[Legion of Primes]

Amazing event @Suswave! Really great work. The sheer variety of badges here is incredible I'll try and get a few of them, at least; maybe even more!

I've got some suggestions for some asexual-related badges! I'd be fine even making the badges myself, if I got the template for them

Party with Parvati
Come out as asexual to fellow Ace, Parvati, in 'The Outer Worlds'

A Match Made in SpAce
Finish Parvati's questline in 'The Outer Worlds'

What's Black, Grey, White, and Purple all over?
Finish a level in 'De Blob 1 or 2' using mostly Purple paint.

I Don't Want to be Horny Anymore, I Just Want to Conquer the Earth!
Starting as an asexual ruler, conquer another country in 'Crusader Kings 3'

Unequivocally, Unilaterally, Undeniably Better than Sex
In any game that has it as an item, acquire a piece of garlic bread

The Ace of Spades and Clubs and Diamonds and Hearts...
Get a hand with all 4 Aces in Balatro

Don't know if these are all possible, but they're all that I can really think of when it comes to actual ace representation/plays on some of the big asexual memes.

I got a badge suggestion as well.

Paramour

Romance any Queer pairing in any Mass Effect or Dragon Age game

 

[Suswave]

and the last one is beating dream Zote (I'm not doing that lol, I frigging hate that fight)

I'm sorry to say that it's that but like six times

he gets weirder and weirder charms each time, too

she fuckin' leaves him though

 

[jirou]

Cool as hell, does Poison from SF count for the fighting game one? As far as I know she's considered trans by the community but maybe not officially? That's what I read back then at least

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

Cool as hell, does Poison from SF count for the fighting game one? As far as I know she's considered trans by the community but maybe not officially? That's what I read back then at least

Poison from Final Fight/Street Fighter would count, yes.

 

[jirou]

Poison from Final Fight/Street Fighter would count, yes.

Thank you! I'll do a run with her on USF4 if I find the time

 

[oomoepoo]

So, is it enough to have a screenshot with the full health bar (or the item completion perecentage) for the E-Tank badge or do you want screenshots of collecting all of them?

 

[VolcanicDynamo]

So, is it enough to have a screenshot with the full health bar (or the item completion perecentage) for the E-Tank badge or do you want screenshots of collecting all of them?

Full health bar or completion percentage is enough - so long as it is clear that you collected every E-Tank.

 

[Tangerine_Cookie]

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[SammyJ9]

Holy shit this is a ton of work, awesome event all! I need to look into which ones I can do

 

[Sheldon]

Happy Couple is Not killing the Nail Smith after getting all the upgrades
The one with Cloth is... I'm not completely sure but I assume (late game Hollow Knight) something to do with her dying agains the Traitor because her significant other she mentions when you dream nail her is implied to be dead
Grey Mourner is the Flower Quest
and the last one is beating dream Zote (I'm not doing that lol, I frigging hate that fight)

Aw, poop, the last one is what I thought I might be able to do, because I remember deliberately avoiding it, because I wanted to keep Bretta around, but I didn't remember which fight was connected to it.

Well, I'm doubly glad I left Side Order unfinished now.