{"id":13744,"date":"2015-04-20T06:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T13:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=13744"},"modified":"2015-10-31T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T19:10:35","slug":"femmepocalypse-uses-makeymakey-to-design-gender-neutral-avatar-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/femmepocalypse-uses-makeymakey-to-design-gender-neutral-avatar-masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Femmepocalypse uses #MaKeyMaKey to Design Gender-Neutral Avatar Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"femmepocolypse\"<\/p>\n

Begun at Dames Making Games<\/a> Toronto’s Feb Fatale<\/a> game jam, Femmepocalypse<\/a> is a simple game that provokes some complex thoughts, about gender directly but also the notion of “dress-up.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

In short turning this:
\n\"femmepocolypse1\"
\n(MaKey MaKey Deluxe Kit<\/a> shown)<\/p>\n

into this:
\n\"femmepocolypse_3\"<\/p>\n

Whatever helps the player relate to that character, then that\u2019s the gender.
\n-Alto Punk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[via Intel iQ<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1235,1016,239],"series":[],"class_list":["post-13744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geekathon","tag-games","tag-maker","tag-mask"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/femme4.png?fit=956%2C714&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-3zG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13744"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15093,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions\/15093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}