{"id":1082,"date":"2014-07-16T21:31:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2014-07-16T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T02:31:17","slug":"free-online-game-simulates-coming-out-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1082","title":{"rendered":"Free Online Game Simulates Coming Out Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indie game designer Nicky Case has developed <a href=\"http:\/\/ncase.itch.io\/coming-out-simulator-2014\">Coming Out Simulator 2014,<\/a> a free online gam<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/07\/11\/open-source-indie-game-allows-players-to-simulate-coming-out-as-gay\/\">e that simulates the process of coming out<\/a>. The game is based on Case&#8217;s own coming out process, and it allows the player to choose a variety of conversational choices throughout the storyline. Characters remember what you have said, and they constantly refer back to choices that were made previously in the game. The games tagline is &#8220;a half-true game about half-truths.&#8221; The game has three endings, but like it promises at the very beginning, there are no easy or clean results. Everything is messy&#8230;just like the coming out process itself.<\/p>\n<p>Case described a bit of the game in a blog post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u00a0\u201cWhat really, really mattered to me, was all the touching responses I got sent to me via Twitter and email. I had no idea I\u2019d be so moved. People in the closet, people already out, parents who want to support their kids, ex-boyfriends of closeted peeps\u2026 all reached out to me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cI was worried, at first, about putting out such a depressing story about coming out. It might have the negative consequence of scaring teens into not coming out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cBut it turned out, by really diving into the deep end, my game could reach out to people in a dark place. I don\u2019t think it could have reached them if the game was all sunshine and rainbows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cMy game could say to them, hey. This sucks, and it won\u2019t be easy, I\u2019m sorry. Just know you\u2019re not alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ncase.itch.io\/coming-out-simulator-2014\">The game can be played here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie game designer Nicky Case has developed Coming Out Simulator 2014, a free online game that simulates the process of coming out. The game is based on Case&#8217;s own coming out process, and it allows the player to choose a variety of conversational choices throughout the storyline. Characters remember what you have said, and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}