Vagina Crisis: A Period Piece [Amnesia Fortnight 2017]

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Vagina Crisis: A Period Piece is a health education game about a 13 year old girl who gets her first period. It’s an adventure game where the player is presented with solutions to a problem. None of the options will have a correct choice because life has no perfect solutions. Cutscenes will depict the girl’s reactions to the situations she’s put in. There will also be facts on how a period affects women’s everyday lives. The girl’s appearance will be customizable and a meter will monitor different emotions. When an emotion gets too high the girl will react. Both the story and facts will be different for every decision, making the game perfect for multiple playthroughs. Every gender should feel comfortable playing the game as it will be a great learning tool for students as well as adults.

by Monica Chin-Perez

Amnesia Fortnight is a two-week internal game jam in which the Double Fine development teams drop what they're doing and work on prototypes for new games. It was originally designed as a break away from traditionally long development cycles to make something different for a while, but in later years provided prototypes for games such as Costume Quest, Iron Brigade, Hack n’ Slash and Stacking.

[grit]

Talk to your kids about their health? Nope, throw a computer game in front of them.

[SteveRudzinski]

I think an educational game to help young girls understand their upcoming periods better is a great, wonderful idea that would be a positive thing for young women!

But I also don't know why anyone would think pitching this against super fun awesome sounding games that the vast majority of voters would want more was the best idea.

[lukefairhurst]

I don't know if this is suitable material for fairly large commercially-orientated indie studio - it seems more like a free web game made by one or two people. It seems interesting though, and I definitely think it should exist. I hope you make it independently of Amnesia fortnight - maybe even pitch it to a national or international organisation centred on helping young women to increase the potential audience reach/funding

[StupidJellyfish]

Why are people hating this? Ii'm against third wave feminism myself, but this sounds like a pretty healthy and innocent product.

[tofuninja]

Not gonna lie. This would be really really good for when I have a girl in the future. Mostly because I would not be able to help her

[TheSliderW]

This is very specific and targeted so i fear it won't get as many votes as more "generic" games, which is sad. But anyway, I like the idea of it being an educational game where you actually make decisions as it would be more open ended than directed.
I'd imagine you would have to manage your emotions and stress as well as you might have to deal with impromptu situations where your body just won't cooperate during this or that event.
Could be enlightening, even for men who don't "see" or "feel" it in their everyday life.

[celticrapsodia]

Hey, i say... why not!? Who am I to judge it if the game doesnt even exist! when the time comes i will be the first judging the game and maybe it is will be even good for the average users (Not only girls in period) It's a new method to learn, playing videogames, there are already people trying to get these methods of learning into real schools. Don't you want this coming true!? C'mon, it would be awesome that our kids/future kids can learn this way.

[moeezS]

More along the lines of Nina Freeman's games? Hell yeah.

[Awrukczek]

So, uh, as a woman... periods are boring as fuck. I can appreciate wanting to educate young girls, but this isn't exactly riveting game material. Would work better as a pamphlet or an educational video series.

[TheRealFlurrin]

please consider including a playable trans boy option as well!

[Flanbird]

I am a trans PoC and it's incredible to me that I'll finally have a way to experience a period! Thank you Double Fine!