Begun at Dames Making Games Toronto’s Feb Fatale game jam, Femmepocalypse is a simple game that provokes some complex thoughts, about gender directly but also the notion of “dress-up.”
Gamers love customizing their avatars and with Femmepocalypse the process of customization is a project unto itself. Built by game designer Alto Punk, the interface to control the feature switching in the gender-ambiguous face on-screen is interacted with through a MaKey MaKey attached to some touch sensor pads connected to the features to be switched through.
In short turning this:
(MaKey MaKey Deluxe Kit shown)
into this:
Whatever helps the player relate to that character, then that’s the gender.
-Alto Punk
[via Intel iQ]
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