Positive Play brings together aspiring game designers, public health students, sexual health experts, and gender-equity organizations to explore positive depictions of sex and sexuality through games. Participants in this two-day jam (March 24-25th) will work collaboratively to develop games with learning outcomes related to one of the following topics: sex positivity, LGBTQ2S+ inclusivity, consent, and destigmatizing sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections.

Partners

Guest speakers include representatives from Canadian Public Health Association, No More (The Campaign to End Domestic Violence & Sexual Assualt), as well as co-founders of the Advocates for a Student Culture of Consent (ASCC). 

Briefing Materials

• Event  info sheet
• Introduction Slides by Steve Wilcox & Emily Flynn-Jones (BGNlab)
• STBBIs & Stigma by Rachel MacLean & Laura Bouchard (CPHA) 
• LGBTQ+ Sex Positivity by Karly Rath & Taylor Berzins (ASCC) 
• Consent by Jess Doroschenko (No More) 

Resources

Essays, criticism, and scholarship on sex, sexuality, and games.

• Let's talk about sex... in video games
• Hey, videogames, enough with the bad sex 
• Women aren't vending machines: how videogames perpetuate the commidity model of sex
• Sex in videogames: seducation 
• Sex in videogames: explicit sex 
• Renegade sex: compulsory sexuality and charmed magic circles in the Mass Effect series 
• Putting the gay in games: cultural production and GLBT content in video games 
• No sex please, we are finite state machines: on the melancholoy sexlessness of video games
• The strange case of the misappearance of sex in video games
• She's making and honest game about video games

Game dev assets

• "Ren'py asset repository"

ASCC's presentation + additional resources

• https://bit.ly/2IKlSuS

LGBTQ2S+ Resources

Game archives categorized according to LGBTQ2S+ content.

• Can I Play Gay?
• LGBTQ Video Game Archive 

 Games

Examples of games that address sex and sexuality in a positive, provocative, and/or productive way.

• UFO STI WTF - Run a sexual health clinic for aliens
• Dream Daddy - A dad dating simulator 
• The Tearoom - A public bathroom simulator 
• How Do You Do It? - Exploring the mechanics of sex
• Freshman Year - Sexual assault and consent 
• Katawa Shoujo - A game about disability and sexuality 
• Analogue: A Hate Story - A lesbian romance
• Kindness Coins - A dating game about 'nice guys' & expectations

Additional Resources 

• Consent is Golden 
• Advocates for A Student Culture of Consent
• Planned Parenthood