What's your gender?

"What's your gender?" was originally part of a "binary and beyond" themed game jam and developped in less than 36 hours.

"What's your gender?" takes the player on an adventure into a non-eucledian labyrinth, exploring terms and concepts related to gender and identity.


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Controls

Move with WASD, Arrow Keys or Mouse
Jump (optional) with Space
LMB/E to interact
Gamepad support

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Credits

Soundtrack Meekness by Kai Engel
Soundtrack (original jam release) Flawless by Ryan Andersen
Assets: 100% handmade by Pingu (Purplesloth Studio)
VA:  Ente & Katze (Purplesloth Studio)
Research & Levellayout: Ente & radow (Purplesloth Studio)
Code: fuchsi* and radow (Purplesloth Studio)
Shader: fuchsi* (Purple Sloth) special thanks to Ronja

Source

https://git.hemio.de/purpleSloth/antigender
(the working title was a play on 'Antichamber')

Download

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WhatsYourGenderWin.zip 34 MB
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Development log

Comments

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I LOVE the pronoun room, and the narration - especially around critiquing "Western" concepts of gender when exploring the Indigenous rooms. I wish those rooms were more fleshed out; perhaps a consultant from those cultures could give input!

One note for the "Fem/Femme" room - the term "Femme" actually originated in gay black & latino male ballroom culture! It then became a shorthand in the lesbian community, since ballroom performers had a lot of community crossover with lesbians. I think it's important to recognize the history since Femme is an inclusive label not just for lesbians, and men and trans people can see their history in the term.

Overall, an absolutely wonderous experience to explore gender and self. Honestly, a spiritual and emotional journey in many ways. I really loved the gender dysphoria and euphoria/congruence room. It feels very empowering and affirming to walk through this experience and see so much reverence and respect to gender exploration and identies.

All the support to the creator!

Interesting...

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I wish i could show this to my french speaking friends i bet they would love it!

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This was so cool! I appreciated the questions and definitions for everything. I also thought the pronoun room was really enlightening and an easy way to 'try out' pronouns I had never thought of! I think I liked most of them actually -weird right?- being called a "she", "he", "they", "person", "ne", "xe"- it all felt good in different ways maybe I fall under gendervoid or fluid?? Also loved the representation of euphoria and dysphoria it felt pretty true to the feeling in my opinion. All and all a great game and I hope the devs are proud!

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I appreciated this. Thank you!

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i love this its really sweet

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the euphoria dysphoria representation really hit for me. I felt so relieved and relaxed immediately for the blocks too all come to me and make a path and then the ground became unsteady and dropped me into colliding mashing blocks it was stressful and I immediately scrambled for the purchase i had with the euphoria. that's exactly how it feels you could be having your best day and feel so comfortable in your body and one offhanded comment can make it all crumble to the ground.

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"a person walks through the door" -  that felt good, everything else felt strange for me. Also learned smth new ^^ nice game

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ooohhhh.... I loved it!

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peak game it was fun

"they walk through the door" was better than he or she for me, idk the other two just felt weird 

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Even as a cis guy, this game was quite nice, and educational.
Some of these terms I'd never even encountered before, thanks.

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"Ne walks through the door" i didnt know it would hit so close to the home

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The cursor drift was another layer of chaos i didnt need. the only thing i felt was annoyance from the cursor drift. absolutely none of the words meant anything for me. idk what that means other than detachment from feeling like i need to fit in somewhere. i dont need to fit into any category not do i try to.  

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Hey kirby, 

can you explain the problem you are experiencing in a bit more detail? Does the problem already occur in the menu or in the first scene? Are you playing with Mouse + keyboard?

Cheers 

(+8)(-1)

I cried when I saw the description of myself, thank you for this wonderful game

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honestly I love this it gave off a very dysphoric vibe, trying to find myself and finding other versions myself!

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he walks through the door he walks through the door he walks through the door he walks through the door he walks through the door he walks

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haha same

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god damn calling me out ouch. i tried all of them out lmao and then just kept doing "he" for a minute lmao

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This was a very cool concept for a game. My father walked by as I was playing and saw what I was doing and I got to teach him some new terms too

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Such a soft and, honestly, gender-affirming game! 

White is is more about the educational / informative aspects, this game allows expecially younger people to explore their gender a bit. My favourite part is the room with the different doors and pronouns, as it´s often hard to ask others to refer to you with different pronouns just to "give it a try", expecially if you´re not very confident and also a bit scared- which is a completely normal reaction, by the way. The one thing I´d "change" about the game is to extend the corridor in the end scene further and fade out before reaching its "end", to not give a specific number to the ammount of "available" genders. 

I absolutely adore the game andabsolutely recommend playing it if you are either unsure of your gender or are interested in learning a bit more about different gender identities in general. 

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i didnt realise how much i needed to hear "they walk through the door" until i was crying.

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someone on twitter once said

that's how you unlock cis+

this game truly did make me genderful

(+8)(-1)

wow... that was a nice experience.

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I should ask for estrogen i think

(+9)

I loved how the rooms weren't static! It was trippy and cool

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not immersive, 0/10

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Hey Jacksepti-simp!

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Goodbye imyourfriend 

what wut D:

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very confusing i loved it!

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This is honestly amazing, I kind of got lost and feel like I had skipped some things at the spiral staircase

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my gender is a attack helicopter

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gender is a lie

loved this game :P

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real

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I loved it !!!
I'm still not 100% sure of my gender but it made feel... things. Great experience.

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Y'know something kinda cool? This is a game about genders that defy the typical binary. The game itself defies typical genres, I can't think of a category that this game cleanly fits in except for maybe a visual novel (The game describes itself as a puzzle game but idk that feels wrong to me lol).

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Walking sims, there's plenty out there.
It's pretty inspired, for the structure, by "Antichamber", which indeed is more of a puzzle game. Btw, there is so many genres of games out there that defining it as a "Binary" is kinda weird in it's own.

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huh, i wasn't aware of walking sims before this comment, thanks for that new info! I do see your point in genres being a lot more umbrella-y and loose than the gender binary,

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what's my gender?




im a mechanic

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😂

(+7)(-4)
realy good game !
(+7)(-3)

cute enough game, I personally didn't get much emotional resonance out of it as someone very assured in my gender, but I generally appreciated the visual metaphors that accompanied each term. well done!

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This was a nice game I liked everything about XP

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I found out I was gendervoid using this! it also helped me find out what other genders there are! thanks!

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eh id say uhh male with a dash of male and also some male

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