Courting Contraceptives is a first person, “dating-sim” style digital game designed by members of the Critical Art and Technology Lab (CAT Lab) in the computer science department at the College of Charleston in partnership with communications professor Dr. Beth Sundstrom and Dr. Sarah Maness. The game aims to educate people with periods about the safety and efficacy of using hormonal birth control to prevent menstruation as well as about the variety of effective methods of contraceptives available to them with an emphasis on long acting reversible contraceptives.
A custom cabinet is being created for the game and you can read about its development in the proceedings of the 2024 Foundations of Digital Games Conference in Worcester, MA:
