What's your gender?
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
Recommendations and Awards
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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Development log
- Patch 1.2, some numbers and news!Oct 07, 2021
- Hotfix for 02/06/2021 PatchJun 04, 2021
- Happy Pride Month!Jun 01, 2021
- 'What's your gender?' Full ReleaseFeb 21, 2021
Comments
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Hey Jacksepti-simp!
Goodbye imyourfriend
what wut D:
very confusing i loved it!
This is honestly amazing, I kind of got lost and feel like I had skipped some things at the spiral staircase
my gender is a attack helicopter
gender is a lie
loved this game :P
real
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH, I loved it !!!
I'm still not 100% sure of my gender but it made feel... things. Great experience.
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).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.
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,
what's my gender?
im a mechanic
😂
realy good game !
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!
This was a nice game I liked everything about XP
I found out I was gendervoid using this! it also helped me find out what other genders there are! thanks!
eh id say uhh male with a dash of male and also some male
Mid
pretty cool project! I enjoyed it but did get lost a few times xd
just w wanted to let you know that the link to the enby wiki is leading to an error 404 page
Oh, thanks for letting us know. We have a new build almost ready to go and will adjust the link before release (might still take a while).
I am a... HELICOPTER-!!
can y’all make a mobile version?
Hey Rhys,
while a dedicated mobile version is not somethign we are currently looking at the web version can be played on mobile devices, thanks to the two button control setup:
use one finger to look around and 2 to move forwards.
Keep in mind that performance might not be ideal, depending on the hardware.
Thank you, truly, for making this game. Every time I play it, I cry, because it is the thing that gave me the courage to come out to my family. So thank you.
I am confused, I am following the arrow but nothing changes. How am I supposed to continue?
try turning the opposite way from the arrows!!
No!!! YOU MUST CONFORM!!!
(j/k)
i yam a male
yes i yam
i personally am trans but i wonder what you guys got i guess it was kind of a puzzle love you<3
It was like the first thing I saw TwT
I'll be honest, being trans feels like a puzzle! I think it fits!
I don't know how to describe how this game made me feel, but I love it and now I'm crying, thank you for doing it.<3
Great work!
I cannot tell you how happy I was seeing that it stated dysphoria was not experienced by all trans people. Always made me feel like a fake whenever I saw someone say you needed severe dysphoria to be "trans enough"
This game confused me a lot... But also helped me a lot...
after playing, I am proud to announce myself as transfem genderfluid and dyadic, and i would love to pass as a girl!
and my preferred pronouns are, and have always been (lookin at you, family) They and Them
also, could someone tell me how "one" works as a pronoun, because i really like the sound of it, but "i just adore one" soundin kinda off to me
you just decided to become the other gender cuz of a game?
WOOOOO
i am so happy right now.. they got the definition of nonbinary right!!! like thats me!!!! only one thing: i'm pretty sure the most widely used term for the opposite of intersex is perisex, at least now. the 3d stuff made me feel sick but i didnt really care because i love this game.
This has been a lovely game to walk around and explore! When playing on a mac browser, some of the colors will frequently glitch out when moving and create some flash like effects. Is that just a browser issue or a larger bug?
Oh, thanks for the headsup. Havn't come across that before - will try adn investigate.
Explain to me, how can this bullshit, tell you what gender you are. Following the logic of this game, if im curious, then im apperentaly transgender? Even tho im clearly a male. Yea nah no way people believe this bullshit lol
I'm not sure where you got the idea, that the game tells you what your gender is? The game explores a set of terms and identities and poses a set of questions that can help people explore their own identity. It doesnt "tell you what gender your are".
Oh I see. Still doesnt make sense tho, how can a Game help people explore their Identity?
You clearly haven’t played a game with a good enough story if you’re asking that question.
Exploration of any sort begins with questions, and is facilitated by the information and language we learn or develop along the way to both describe our findings and understand them better. This game offers questions to get us thinking about our personal understanding of our own identities, and provides that language and information to help us through that exploration (in a cool maze room format!)
it informs people one the different forms of identity and expression they can take, it provides labels to those seeking them out. for someone like me, who had been questioning their gender identity for a very long time, it's like having a light shone on a different aspect of myself in each room, and through that I put together a gender that suits me, and can tell others a little more about me in a way that isn't awkward and stilted.
As someone who have trouble on figuring out what I am, this game brought me to tears. I've lost myself trying to fit in ever since I started high school and it really fucked me up but this game help me realized what I am. This game will forever have a place in my heart, thank you for making this game.
huh went a little bit then to exit i think imma like this game
if i actually play it
when i saw the trailer thing you get for hovering your cursor over the game thing i thought it was like antichamber
"HE walks to the door" ABJDAVJFSVJ<33
feels good, don't it :)
i want to pass as femme, but it felt very nice indeed to hear "They walked through the door". nobody ever respects my dang pronouns irl :/
I really loved this, I especially love that in the beginning if you kept following the arrow you'd always end back at cis. It's only until after you stop following the arrow that you find the other identities and to me that's very meaningful. It feels like society pushes you to be cis and it doesn't straight out tell you that there are more options, you kind of have to discover that for yourself and that's what this game is about.
Just a little question, is there no room for masc? i couldn't find it i'm transmasc and really tried
Hi,
we've gotten this question quite a few times. When creating the game we wanted to make it clear that the list of terms we presented was in no way exhaustive. One way of doing that was to leave out some terms that would have been good fits and masc ended up being one of those left out.
However given the amount of people that have been looking for a masc room and were curious what it would look like, we would probably include it if we ever went back and added further rooms. Its absence is in no way ment as an invalidation of masc identities.
I hope you add it, it feels so invalidating as a trans guy that there is only a fem room and not masc. Either put in both or leave out both. Trans Men are just as valid as trans women
i have to agree, it feels a bit odd not seeing it. i love this game, it's a great experience to walk through. but it's a missing term, especially since the other rooms mention the masculine identities, and then it's nowhere to be seen. i fully understand not wanting to make an infinite-spanning game as the spectrum of gender is so vast, but c'mon. especially since there were multiple instances where you had similar or connected terms (like the stairs to connect two spirits and hijra, or all the pronouns in the same room), it just comes off a bit misinformed, or transphobic to trans-masc people. i saw that in a previous comment, you said you decided to leave out trans men/masc since it's more widely known, but that's an assumption, for one. and one could argue multiple identities are well known so it seems like there is a sense of bias or selective inclusion here. so to a large amount of users, it just looks like you removed one, and that's it. im not in any way trying to attack you, this is a wonderful tool and source, and it's beautifully made. and i have to commend you for making it at all. and i understand you may not have access or the ability to go in and add more things. Still, i hope you see the error and can at least put a respectful disclaimer or something for future viewers, noting how many comments i see asking about it already. im not at all calling you transphobic. i just hope you understand why so many people see the issue.
The problem isn't that not everything is there. The problem is that only fem is there. There is even genderfluid but literally no masc. I feel invalidated enough already as a trans guy its not that hard to include masc if you include fem
It's so rare to play games where one really feels seen, but this really made me feel that and it brought me to tears as it often does. I really liked this experience and the level design was fun and I enjoyed exploring the space. Super nice job. Thank you for this <3
This was a very enlightening piece. As a bisexual who was raised in a family that had negative feelings toward the LGBTQ+ community, I feel like this was a helpful step in understanding myself and others. :) Thanks!