The use of environmental story-telling is wonderful. The display and shape of each room creates the atmosphere of a museum, and this makes sense as each room contains a new concept to do with gender and identity. This actually reminds me of an in-person sexuality museum I visited in Glasgow; It was so validating and comforting seeing our community presented in a space made for the retention of historically important knowledge. The Queer community has lost so much of our history throughout time because of the lack of acceptance within the general public. Even when we have been documented in popular history it's been from an outsider point of view. Sometimes it feels we have been made a spectacle, not something to be understood but instead observed. To hear us tell our own stories and for them to be kept in a museum and seen as experiences worthy of sharing and protecting is unlike anything I've ever seen, and here I see it again in this game. Games can create an interactive narrative, providing a space for queer stories and experiences to survive, be shared and retold. Making a queer game and displaying it is revolutionary, because it demonstrates how we will never be lost to history again. This game is important, thank you for making it.
I even sent it to a friend who was questioning their own identity and it helped them feel so much better.
Thank you for sharing your experience with the game. It's incredibly heartworming to hear that our game is able to evoke such reactions. Also: The museum in glasgow you discribe sounds amazing and now we all wanna go there =] <3
So this ain't the game's fault, just thought this was kinda funny. When I got to the "map" area, I saw there was a square called "Map"....well, I misunderstood this and thought it meant "MAPS" like the pedophiles. So it boggled my mind that this would be included here (Like, I was legit wondering wtf it would say about MAPS), so I had to go find it...Took me 10 minutes of pouring over the entire museum before I realized "Map" was just the name of the map room.....anyways great game, 5/5, I learned a lot of things I didn't know, and this game was not offensive at all thank goodness lol!!!
Hey pyay, the minute of silence is intentonal, but thanks for bringing these bugs to our attention. We are about to ship a patch over the next two days and I'll see if I can include the spelling fix if it hadn't been caught yet =)
really good game :) im trans myself but still figuring out my gender so this is nice, it's very soothing and i love the music n all the colors and shapes!! controls were a bit wonky but it was a good experience <3 thank u for this game i love it alot
What a great, gentle introduction to some complex and emotional ideas~~ Great work! It’s amazing that you all were able to create this in only 36 hours!
Hey, thanks for the feedback. We are aware of the bug and have been working on a fix, but due to some unrelated circustances havnt been able to publish it yet. It should come within the next weeks thought.
bugs in the new version - the pronoun door Xe seems to be surrounded by an invisible wall, same for the door no pronoun in that barrier there is a tiny crack left of the door right by the wall (may have to do with the clipping issue going through (opening?) doors in quick succession), seems like it's one way only though; the door itself works normal but the wall keeps you from further exploration to reproduce start the game go through the trans room to the staircase (you may walk around on the upper levels reading stuff in the other rooms), then jump down the staircase, try the doors
Thanks for putting the clarification into the void room.
I really love this game, but I did encounter a glitch where, while walking through one of the pronoun doors repeatedly, back and forth, and ended up falling out of the world
Besides that, the "Xe" door seems to be somewhat buggy; It didn't let me enter it from the front, but when I tried to enter from the side, I effectively got stuck inside the door, only being able to walk back and forth and trigger the dialogue
Thanks for the great feedback and the bug report. We have a patch in the works that will hopefully fix the glitches/bugs in the pronoun room, but it will take another week or so due to a few of us being on vacation currently =)
This game is super beautiful and unique. I never would have thought a game that teaches you about gender and identities would have ever existed? Nor have been as fun as this was! The Xe/No Pronoun doors didn't work for me though :( Other than that this game was :) great.
I've never heard of One, E, or Ey as pronouns. One feels, like, unattached to gender, but not in the dehumanizing way It does. E feels like the binary version of "they" if that makes sense. Like, it's in the realm of she/he but still ambiguous. Ey has kindof an opposite feel. I'm still figuring out my own stuff, those three stood out tho, I'll look more into them and the people who use them!
Love the game! Not in particular for the theme, because I think we massively overcomplicate it for ourselves, but I like to walk around in the maze, the way the terminology is explained, the music and the whole experience, actually. Nice!
War spannend mal die Gedanken einer Person, die wir nicht kennen, mitzuverfolgen.
Etwas Info zu Dysphorie/Euphorie noch, weil es mir aufgefallen ist: Das ist nicht nur Körperbezogen. Geschlechtseuphorie können zum Beispiel auch trans Menschen haben, wenn sie das erste Mal ihren (richtigen) Namen oder ihre Pronomen hören. Oder wenn sie sich grade einfach wohl fühlen mit sich selbst und ihrem Geschlecht. Oder wenn sie ein tolles neues Wort oder Konzept gefunden haben, dass sie gut beschreibt.
Dysphorie können auch Menschen haben, die an sich körperlich von außen gesehen gar nicht anders wahrgenommen würden, aber sich dennoch selbst unwohl fühlen mit ihrem Körper oder ihrem Geschlecht. Aber eben auch, wenn es nicht um Körper sondern nur den gesellschaftliche Umgang mit Geschlecht geht. Wenn eine nichtbinäre Person sich zum Beispiel zwischen binärem Geschlecht auf einem Formular entscheiden muss. Oder Menschen, um sie herum sehr Geschlechterstereotype erwarten.
Achso und ja zu den Türen, eigentlich hätten die alle funktionieren sollen. Da haben wir wohl mit unserem letzten Update einen Bug eingebaut. Werden das wahrscheinlich nochmal überarbeiten.
X wird auch tatsächlich so als Pronomen benutzt. Und bei uns im Bekanntenkreis wird zum Beispiel viel xier benutzt. Da gibt es auch einen tollen Erklärcomic von Anna Heger zu. ;) Ich kenne aber auch einige Personen, die nur ihren Namen nutzen.
Demi wird oft dann benutzt, wenn sich Menschen die meiste Zeit oder immer mit einem Geschlecht identifizieren, aber andere Anteile schwanken können. Also zum Beispiel als Demi-Mann, ist eine Person immer (unter anderem) männlich, aber kann auch zusätzlich manchmal genderqueer, manchmal weiblich, manchmal eher ageschlechtlich sein. Es kann auch sein, dass das nicht so stark schwankt aber eben der männliche Anteil der einzige ist, der orgendwie klar identifizierbar ist, es aber auch noch andere Anteile gibt.
Uhhh mit einer deutschsprachigen Antwort habe ich nun eher weniger gerechnet. ^^
Vielen Dank für die weitere Aufklärung! Ich bin in manchen Aspekten zwar schon grundlegend ganz gut educated, aber bei weitem noch nicht am Ende. Es gibt immer was dazuzulernen, also danke für die Ergänzung. Es ist auf jeden Fall ein sehr interessantes, wenn auch vielschichtiges Themenfeld. Aber solche game experiences wie diese, helfen schonmal sehr gut dabei, eine erste Orientierung zu bekommen und sie sorgen spielerisch vor allem auch dafür, dass Interesse geweckt wird. Es bräuchte viel mehr solcher Inhalte. Wenn ihr vielleicht noch ähnliche Spiele rund um queere Themen kennt, würde ich mich persönlich sehr über solche Empfehlungen freuen.
In diesen Sinne - noch zum Abschluss des pride month: Happy Pride! c:
This is an interesting introduction and exploration mechanic to many queer terms. The mapping is certainly huge and pretty well-design, also the experience given in the section of "dysphoria" is the most relatable :')
At the side note, "No Pronoun" and "Xe" doors seem to be inaccessible, and I got stuck in lift between the map's floor after visiting the "tree" and "non-binary" room ^^;
Thanks for reporting the issue. We have a fix in the works, that will hopefully adress this and a few other issues and will hopefully be able to roll it out over the comming weeks.
Very interesting concept! Game isn't for me though. The game was a little hard on the eyes with all the white surfaces and the music, while soothing, didn't do much to keep me engaged. Concept is good, but I suppose the main criticism is that the levels could use some color.
i understood what gender i was but while i was discovering pronouns, Xe and no pronoun didnt let me go though but when i did i got stuck and had to do it all over again
Love this idea! There are a lot of things you can do with this. However, I encountered a glitch where, at the bottom of the staircase, I would fall through. I wish you could teleport in the map room, though.
I experienced the same glitch. you need to fall down the center of the stairs, just so you land on the land floor before the hole. go up the stairs into the closest room. it goes nowhere, and the back wall has no collision. if you go through that wall, you end up in the room above. go down the stairs, aaaaand the floor is gone. falling in causes a eternity of falling.
great game though! I love the non-Euclidean style!
It's an excellent and informative game! The technical aspects of it I'd love to hear about and I loved the exploration and discovery of terms (and thank you so much for including a map that tells us if we've missed anything). The gender dysphoria/euphoria room was excellently done and I found the bizarre elevator inexplicably mesmerizing to travel on.
The piano was also lovely. (though it did cut out after a while, probably because I kept escaping to write thoughts down here)
Some bugs I ran into:
Had to restart the first playthrough due to void getting stuck onscreen and blocking further inputs
Second playthrough, the pronoun room didn't seem to function correctly? I think I'm walking into the triggers meant to open the doors, but the triggers themselves are being treated as solid geometry. If I approach them from the side the doors will actually open but I can't get through. Saved void for last and... yeah, got hit by the void bug again.
Thanks for the feedback. We seem to accidentally have introduced a few bugs with our latest update and are looking to push a hotfix over the next days.
This was such a fun little game! I loved the atmosphere and the looks of it all. Informative, introspective, but almost lonely, which I really feel as someone who's questioning things.
Did run into a glitch where I checked out Void (it was my second to last room before the exit, the other one left was Pronouns) and interacted with it, but after I left the definition persisted on my screen and I couldn't interact with other things, like the map (which didn't seem to update) or definitions. The voice line for the Pronouns room played fine, though.
love the exploring XD absolutely enjoyed learning about the terms that I didn't know before, although I identify as cisgender myself (for now, anyway!) Also love how you fall down from the 2 doors at the beginning, then see them again but turn and see many other doors in the end. It made me suddenly feel - that's how gender should be.
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Its great! It provides tons of information for people who aren't aware, or people who are questioning, great job! <3
pov: you just figured out your gender/sexuality and now your questioning yourself again lol
The use of environmental story-telling is wonderful. The display and shape of each room creates the atmosphere of a museum, and this makes sense as each room contains a new concept to do with gender and identity. This actually reminds me of an in-person sexuality museum I visited in Glasgow; It was so validating and comforting seeing our community presented in a space made for the retention of historically important knowledge. The Queer community has lost so much of our history throughout time because of the lack of acceptance within the general public. Even when we have been documented in popular history it's been from an outsider point of view. Sometimes it feels we have been made a spectacle, not something to be understood but instead observed. To hear us tell our own stories and for them to be kept in a museum and seen as experiences worthy of sharing and protecting is unlike anything I've ever seen, and here I see it again in this game. Games can create an interactive narrative, providing a space for queer stories and experiences to survive, be shared and retold. Making a queer game and displaying it is revolutionary, because it demonstrates how we will never be lost to history again. This game is important, thank you for making it.
I even sent it to a friend who was questioning their own identity and it helped them feel so much better.
five stars
Thank you for sharing your experience with the game. It's incredibly heartworming to hear that our game is able to evoke such reactions.
Also: The museum in glasgow you discribe sounds amazing and now we all wanna go there =]
<3
So this ain't the game's fault, just thought this was kinda funny. When I got to the "map" area, I saw there was a square called "Map"....well, I misunderstood this and thought it meant "MAPS" like the pedophiles. So it boggled my mind that this would be included here (Like, I was legit wondering wtf it would say about MAPS), so I had to go find it...Took me 10 minutes of pouring over the entire museum before I realized "Map" was just the name of the map room.....anyways great game, 5/5, I learned a lot of things I didn't know, and this game was not offensive at all thank goodness lol!!!
Loved it! Its a nice game and loveful! :D
Very nice game, love it
PD report: in euphoria, its written somtimes called, without the e, its a small thing but i thought it would be helpful :)
ah, and i dont know if its a bug, but music doesnt loop very well, it's like there's a minute of silence between the music loops
Hey pyay,
the minute of silence is intentonal, but thanks for bringing these bugs to our attention. We are about to ship a patch over the next two days and I'll see if I can include the spelling fix if it hadn't been caught yet =)
really good game :) im trans myself but still figuring out my gender so this is nice, it's very soothing and i love the music n all the colors and shapes!! controls were a bit wonky but it was a good experience <3 thank u for this game i love it alot
What a great, gentle introduction to some complex and emotional ideas~~ Great work! It’s amazing that you all were able to create this in only 36 hours!
Informative and fun with a very nice ending. It's a great game!
Lovely game! I had a ton of fun with it. :) The genderfluid room was nice.
simply amazing, loved super informative, the experience was very good.
pretty cool game! is there a sexual orientation one like this also?
im stuck in the doorway of no pronouns cannot leave
Hey, thanks for the feedback. We are aware of the bug and have been working on a fix, but due to some unrelated circustances havnt been able to publish it yet. It should come within the next weeks thought.
bugs in the new version
- the pronoun door Xe seems to be surrounded by an invisible wall, same for the door no pronoun
in that barrier there is a tiny crack left of the door right by the wall (may have to do with the clipping issue going through (opening?) doors in quick succession), seems like it's one way only though; the door itself works normal but the wall keeps you from further exploration
to reproduce start the game go through the trans room to the staircase (you may walk around on the upper levels reading stuff in the other rooms), then jump down the staircase, try the doors
Thanks for putting the clarification into the void room.
This was so well done! Love the antichamber vibes
this game is really informative! i honestly love the overall design, thank you for making it!
This game made me feel the same confusion of attempting to figure out my own gender. 10/10
It was such lovely game even though I struggle to learn about other genders it still was amazing and eye-opening
Thank you!!
This game made me feel emotional. For sure the best browser game I've ever played.
I really love this game, but I did encounter a glitch where, while walking through one of the pronoun doors repeatedly, back and forth, and ended up falling out of the world
Besides that, the "Xe" door seems to be somewhat buggy; It didn't let me enter it from the front, but when I tried to enter from the side, I effectively got stuck inside the door, only being able to walk back and forth and trigger the dialogue
Thanks for the great feedback and the bug report. We have a patch in the works that will hopefully fix the glitches/bugs in the pronoun room, but it will take another week or so due to a few of us being on vacation currently =)
Amazing concept and execution, such a unique experience playing this game
this felt very cathartic and validating... thank you <3
this game is so much fun!! though when i walked through the no pronoun door, i became stuck and couldn't get out :(
This game is super beautiful and unique. I never would have thought a game that teaches you about gender and identities would have ever existed? Nor have been as fun as this was! The Xe/No Pronoun doors didn't work for me though :( Other than that this game was :) great.
they didnt work for me as welL
As a trans person, i love this game
I've never heard of One, E, or Ey as pronouns. One feels, like, unattached to gender, but not in the dehumanizing way It does. E feels like the binary version of "they" if that makes sense. Like, it's in the realm of she/he but still ambiguous. Ey has kindof an opposite feel. I'm still figuring out my own stuff, those three stood out tho, I'll look more into them and the people who use them!
this is a very lovely and helpful game, and using the He door over and over made me feel warm and happy. thank you for making this!
Love the game! Not in particular for the theme, because I think we massively overcomplicate it for ourselves, but I like to walk around in the maze, the way the terminology is explained, the music and the whole experience, actually. Nice!
Nice concept! Thanks for educating us on that important topic.
Hey! Danke für dieses schöne Video.
War spannend mal die Gedanken einer Person, die wir nicht kennen, mitzuverfolgen.
Etwas Info zu Dysphorie/Euphorie noch, weil es mir aufgefallen ist: Das ist nicht nur Körperbezogen. Geschlechtseuphorie können zum Beispiel auch trans Menschen haben, wenn sie das erste Mal ihren (richtigen) Namen oder ihre Pronomen hören. Oder wenn sie sich grade einfach wohl fühlen mit sich selbst und ihrem Geschlecht. Oder wenn sie ein tolles neues Wort oder Konzept gefunden haben, dass sie gut beschreibt.
Dysphorie können auch Menschen haben, die an sich körperlich von außen gesehen gar nicht anders wahrgenommen würden, aber sich dennoch selbst unwohl fühlen mit ihrem Körper oder ihrem Geschlecht. Aber eben auch, wenn es nicht um Körper sondern nur den gesellschaftliche Umgang mit Geschlecht geht. Wenn eine nichtbinäre Person sich zum Beispiel zwischen binärem Geschlecht auf einem Formular entscheiden muss. Oder Menschen, um sie herum sehr Geschlechterstereotype erwarten.
Haha, das ist jetzt sehr lang geworden. :D
Achso und ja zu den Türen, eigentlich hätten die alle funktionieren sollen. Da haben wir wohl mit unserem letzten Update einen Bug eingebaut. Werden das wahrscheinlich nochmal überarbeiten.
X wird auch tatsächlich so als Pronomen benutzt. Und bei uns im Bekanntenkreis wird zum Beispiel viel xier benutzt. Da gibt es auch einen tollen Erklärcomic von Anna Heger zu. ;) Ich kenne aber auch einige Personen, die nur ihren Namen nutzen.
Demi wird oft dann benutzt, wenn sich Menschen die meiste Zeit oder immer mit einem Geschlecht identifizieren, aber andere Anteile schwanken können. Also zum Beispiel als Demi-Mann, ist eine Person immer (unter anderem) männlich, aber kann auch zusätzlich manchmal genderqueer, manchmal weiblich, manchmal eher ageschlechtlich sein. Es kann auch sein, dass das nicht so stark schwankt aber eben der männliche Anteil der einzige ist, der orgendwie klar identifizierbar ist, es aber auch noch andere Anteile gibt.
Uhhh mit einer deutschsprachigen Antwort habe ich nun eher weniger gerechnet. ^^
Vielen Dank für die weitere Aufklärung! Ich bin in manchen Aspekten zwar schon grundlegend ganz gut educated, aber bei weitem noch nicht am Ende. Es gibt immer was dazuzulernen, also danke für die Ergänzung.
Es ist auf jeden Fall ein sehr interessantes, wenn auch vielschichtiges Themenfeld. Aber solche game experiences wie diese, helfen schonmal sehr gut dabei, eine erste Orientierung zu bekommen und sie sorgen spielerisch vor allem auch dafür, dass Interesse geweckt wird. Es bräuchte viel mehr solcher Inhalte. Wenn ihr vielleicht noch ähnliche Spiele rund um queere Themen kennt, würde ich mich persönlich sehr über solche Empfehlungen freuen.
In diesen Sinne - noch zum Abschluss des pride month: Happy Pride! c:
walks through he door, walks through he door, walks through he door, falls into the void
Same here, walked through a bunch of doors and then suddenly I started falling.
This is an interesting introduction and exploration mechanic to many queer terms. The mapping is certainly huge and pretty well-design, also the experience given in the section of "dysphoria" is the most relatable :')
At the side note, "No Pronoun" and "Xe" doors seem to be inaccessible, and I got stuck in lift between the map's floor after visiting the "tree" and "non-binary" room ^^;
Thanks for reporting the issue. We have a fix in the works, that will hopefully adress this and a few other issues and will hopefully be able to roll it out over the comming weeks.
Very interesting concept! Game isn't for me though. The game was a little hard on the eyes with all the white surfaces and the music, while soothing, didn't do much to keep me engaged. Concept is good, but I suppose the main criticism is that the levels could use some color.
I got to the pronoun doors and got trapped inside the "no pronoun" one. I can't leave on either side. I guess I don't use pronouns now 🤷♀️️
:D
Thank you for reporting the issue. We are working on a fix that will hopefully adress the problem causing the issue.
I love the atmosphere and dreaminess of this game. It was very nice to play. I really liked the pronoun doors.
Hey, so I may have enjoined your game a bit too much and ended up speedrunning it. I’m transfem and I enjoyed the game. It was very good.
All Attempts
Single Best Attempt
This is so cool! :D
Such an honour to have a speedrun of our game! Are you sure, this is the fastest way, though? ;-)
There’s probably a faster way, I just didn’t find it
OMG, this is absolutely amazing! Congratulations on being the first holder of the any% world record :D
i understood what gender i was but while i was discovering pronouns, Xe and no pronoun didnt let me go though but when i did i got stuck and had to do it all over again
Thanks for the feedback, we will have a look at what might cause this =)
Love this idea! There are a lot of things you can do with this. However, I encountered a glitch where, at the bottom of the staircase, I would fall through. I wish you could teleport in the map room, though.
Hey, thanks for the feedback.
Can you describe to us what happened immediately before the "falling through" glitch, so we can replicate and fix the issue?
A map based teleportation is an interesting idea, we'll keep in mind for the future, if we decide to add more rooms :slight_smile:
I experienced the same glitch. you need to fall down the center of the stairs, just so you land on the land floor before the hole. go up the stairs into the closest room. it goes nowhere, and the back wall has no collision. if you go through that wall, you end up in the room above. go down the stairs, aaaaand the floor is gone. falling in causes a eternity of falling.
great game though! I love the non-Euclidean style!
If you jump through the stairs to the bottom staircase level, you can fall through the floor.
It's an excellent and informative game! The technical aspects of it I'd love to hear about and I loved the exploration and discovery of terms (and thank you so much for including a map that tells us if we've missed anything). The gender dysphoria/euphoria room was excellently done and I found the bizarre elevator inexplicably mesmerizing to travel on.
The piano was also lovely. (though it did cut out after a while, probably because I kept escaping to write thoughts down here)
Some bugs I ran into:
Had to restart the first playthrough due to void getting stuck onscreen and blocking further inputs
Second playthrough, the pronoun room didn't seem to function correctly? I think I'm walking into the triggers meant to open the doors, but the triggers themselves are being treated as solid geometry. If I approach them from the side the doors will actually open but I can't get through. Saved void for last and... yeah, got hit by the void bug again.
Thanks for the feedback. We seem to accidentally have introduced a few bugs with our latest update and are looking to push a hotfix over the next days.
This was such a fun little game! I loved the atmosphere and the looks of it all. Informative, introspective, but almost lonely, which I really feel as someone who's questioning things.
Did run into a glitch where I checked out Void (it was my second to last room before the exit, the other one left was Pronouns) and interacted with it, but after I left the definition persisted on my screen and I couldn't interact with other things, like the map (which didn't seem to update) or definitions. The voice line for the Pronouns room played fine, though.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll look into the bug and can hopefully push a fix soon =)
Same bug with Void got me here as well
love the exploring XD absolutely enjoyed learning about the terms that I didn't know before, although I identify as cisgender myself (for now, anyway!) Also love how you fall down from the 2 doors at the beginning, then see them again but turn and see many other doors in the end. It made me suddenly feel - that's how gender should be.