LGBTQIA+ pride – in Congleton and worldwide – is about many things, including community. We all remember how much – and how suddenly – the world seemed to change in 2020 when we were locked down for the covid pandemic. We created as much community as we could online, but didn’t get to meet in-person, and there would be no Congleton Pride event in the summer of that year. We couldn’t put our real pride flags all over the town of Congleton and we had more other things than usual to worry about. Some of us had nowhere to go, and a bit more time on our hands for crazy projects. And I mean, we made the best of that time with some really crazy fun projects!
For some time, Congleton Pride committee member (and retro-gamer) Gordon Self had wanted to create a win-by-filling-in-the-colours game. Mostly inspired by the games they grew up with that had some kind of a maze element, from Spindizzy to Marathon… And ridiculous as it sounds, as soon as they thought of painting pride flag colours onto buildings inspired by the sketches of experimental architect Antonio Sant’Elia, it became a real project – Prideworld! You can play it now in a web browser on your computer, tablet or phone, and from now till the end of Pride Month we’re letting you start every mission with 9 lives!
Use the computer keyboard or your mobile device’s touch screen to drive your robot around the Prideworld, collect keys and press switches, and outmanoeuvre the enemy robots. Instructions and optional settings are included in the game so be really sure to read and make the most of those! If you’re still having any trouble after that, we offer tech support (and solutions and cheats if you absolutely must have those!) on the Prideworld help/contact page.
We released the game with only the rainbow mission, but over a couple of years built it up to a total of ten missions – each published on an awareness day for that part of the LGBTQIA+ community. You don’t need to complete any one mission to access another: they’re all available all the time. These maps show how each mission looks right at the start – before you’ve started switching on the pride colours…
Do you have a favourite mission? Gordon’s favourite is “probably” the intersex one – the penultimate to have been built. The circular ‘castle’ gets filled in purple right at the end, just like the purple circle in the intersex flag. There’s some nasty lava and tricky switch puzzles, and the whole south section is only there for optional powerups, so it’s probably the most brutal if you don’t yet know what you’re doing. A really good place to start in this game is with the pansexual one, because each of the three towers is completely separate and you can do them in any order. Just use the teleporters in the middle to collect all the keys, then pick a tower and figure out how to complete that. Play as many times as you need until you’ve got the hang of that tower. Then do the same for the next, and so on… until you feel like an attempt at winning the mission by completing all three in one go.
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