very challenging there was a lot of tricks, not sure if they were intended, like jumping and putting a rope on mid air, the atmosphere was very cool too
Reviews for "What Makes You a Man?"
plufmot responds:
Thank you! Some of the tricks weren't intentional, but I left them in because they were cool haha
getting over over it, but now there are two idiots that are climbing a mountin
plufmot responds:
Pretty much ahaha
Decent gameplay. Could maybe do with checkpoints.
without any way to reset after walking off the cliff with "wasd" and no way to get back up i quit.
p.s. i guess there's the "twoplayer" tag but who looks at those anyway?
plufmot responds:
You can get back up though? Just jump down to where the other player is? Thanks for playing!
Hmm, trans person here. I'm not gonna lie, that conversation at the end wasn't convincing. And I *highly* doubt that it would convince someone who was transphobic. They would just respond with some trite nonsense about chromosomes or whatever. I think it was just not a very convincing argument for why trans identities are true and valid. It's a really hard thing *TO* write out, and no one has 100% succeeded in making a perfectly compelling argument (Other than "Don't be a jerk to trans people holy hell how hard is it"), but at the very least I think it deserves a little more unpacking than was given here.
I say this with love. And in fact perhaps it makes perfect sense that the conversation played out as it did. Because he is the brother of a trans person after all, not the trans person themself. So maybe it's actually GOOD that his argument is a little half baked, because he doesn't really get it all that much either, but he loves his sister all the same.
I don't know, I guess I'm torn.
The gameplay itself was immediately compelling. A very obvious ludo-narrative harmony with the two supporting each other. It was super difficult at first but in the way that makes you want to master it which is exactly what you want. Nice job all around I'd say. I apologise if my analysis comes off as more negative than I am hoping.
plufmot responds:
Thank you so much for the feed back! I don't think your analysis was negative at all! This game wasn't targeted for transphobes or anything, it was more for trans people and open minded cis people. The conversation at the end was actually based off how I came to understand trans people. Much love! <3