BCF (Birth Control Friend)
A downloadable game
Designed in collaboration with O.S. and James, as part of the Clitical Hits Game Jam 2022. Original idea developed with Gerrit Reininghaus. A revised, expanded version will be available at some point in the future.
This is a sex-education game using a speed-dating model. Human characters with specific health needs pair with birth control methods who are looking for new friends. Each pair talks for a few minutes, and then they rotate. The game ends with some debrief questions, for emotional and educational purposes.
BCF is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International.
Image by rhsupplies on Unsplash.
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This educational game is a great concept! It's all about matching each method up with the person whose specific needs they meet the best, so modeling it as match-making is perfect. This is wonderful for making each method seem memorable. Giving each one a silly personality quirk was a fun touch. Having each method focus on their best features instead of criticizing other methods is great for keeping a good attitude about protection in general. I also appreciate that your cover image is a well-chosen stock photo instead of a machine generated image. I'm very interested in the cause of education about safer sex, so sometime I would like to run this game with a group. This game is great already, and I look forward to seeing it get developed further with some of the intriguing ideas you gave at the end of your document.
I absolutely adored playtesting this at Clitical Hits!
Thank you! It was so much fun getting to listen in on some of your conversations as the moderator.
Such a quick, fun, and educational game! I got to playtest this during the game jam where it was written - looking forward to future developments!
I'm planning to do a revised version eventually, but right now I'm focused on my Golden Cobra game for this year.