A downloadable game

In 2012, I made the decision to begin hormone replacement therapy. This game is about the next six months of my life, made up of playable vignettes I created at a rate of one or two a day. 

This Journal Game is not meant as a definitive guide to the process of HRT. It is an attempt at documenting the emotional experience of transitioning in the 2010s, created for other trans people who might have related.


honest, and open, and
unafraid to be awkward

Salon


Music by Liz Ryerson.

FLASHING WARNING: This game contains "glitchy" color-flashing effects during its opening, on its menu screen, and during transitions between vignettes.

CONTENT WARNING: This game deals with transphobia and transmisogyny, dysphoria, and the perils of medical transition (including having doctors deny care and buying medications from gray market sellers).

ALSO NOTE: This game is built in Flash, and the Mac version may no longer run on new computers.

This game is and will remain free. If you like it, please consider paying for one of my other games.

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dys4ia_win.zip 3 MB
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dys4ia_mac.zip 6 MB

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I was reading "A Game Design Vocabulary" when I saw a mention of this game in it, it was very engaging and helped me get a better grasp of one of the two writers of the book and see her work first-hand. Also, knowing I'm trans but being stressed about transitioning (and trans healthcare being a rarity here smh) this was a great way to understand the trans experience(the wild ride never ends). We will see what the future holds.

I've been monologuing but in conclusion: thx 4 the game :)

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Back in 2014 Matpat shouted this out in a vid and that's how I found out trans people existed
I'm now a trans woman lmao

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hell yeah. fuck yeah

i really liked it. it was beautiful and tysm for making this :)

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absolutely beautiful game, thank you so much for making this

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This game taught me so much about what games could be. Thank you for making it!

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I love this game so much, and have taught it for years in my college classes. Thank you so much for making it.

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Windows Defender says it contains a Trojan (Trojan:Script/Wacatac.B!ml).