Developing a sex-positive educational game for adolescents.
MY ROLE
DURATION
CLIENT
PROJECT
Game Designer + Copywriter + UI/UX
Social Impact Game Design + UI / UX
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Jan 2017 - May 2017
Challange
As sex education is often implicitly normative and focuses on risk, it produces confusion, embarrassment, and fear in young women seeking answers about sex.
The norm in sex education -
Approach
By meeting with young women, we learned about the negative impacts of these educational practices, and together identified ways to significantly improve them.
Managers discuss interdepartmental documentation challenges.
Innovation
We developed a safe and fun way to learn about sex that fulfilled actual needs - to learn about sex in a private setting, to enjoy the process, and to learn self-acceptance.
Providers explore possibilities for new documentation practices.
Deliverables
A digital game wherein the player explores information about sex - changing fear-based, normative messages to positive, inclusive, and empowering ones.
Nurses document patient care during the new system pilot.
Impact
Young women who tested the game said they learned new and interesting things about sex, and that they felt better about their past experiences and their bodies.
During rounds, providers now have information at their fingertips.