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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"Ne walks through the door" i didnt know it would hit so close to the home
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.
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
I cried when I saw the description of myself, thank you for this wonderful game
honestly I love this it gave off a very dysphoric vibe, trying to find myself and finding other versions myself!
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
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
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.
i didnt realise how much i needed to hear "they walk through the door" until i was crying.
someone on twitter once said
this game truly did make me genderful
wow... that was a nice experience.
I should ask for estrogen i think
I loved how the rooms weren't static! It was trippy and cool
not immersive, 0/10
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!