Fantastic STIs 18 to 81

性福奇遇记18至81

Fantastic STIs 18 to 81 (2022) is a generative art-based video game about sex education, HIV/AIDS, and STIs, created with JavaScript using code and emojis. Inspired by the struggles and activism at the height of AIDS, it balances serious themes with a cheerful tone, celebrating scientific progress and resilience. Players navigate life metaphorically, swimming through years alongside HIV+ celebrities and organizations, striving to reach age 81 while avoiding infection and loneliness. The game blends sex education with interactive play, emphasizing prevention, open dialogue, and destigmatization. Ultimately, it reflects personal experience, communal history, and hope for a future free of HIV and stigma.

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Use 🅐 🅢 🅓 🅦 on your keyboard to control the chaotic, messy 18yo who's the protagonist / you.

To win: Enjoy the joy / pleasure of ❤️/🍑/🍆 =) , while keeping yourself free from 🐛STIs.

To lose: Become too lonely or too infected.

Press 🅡 to rebirth at 18.

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PrEP: pre-exposure prophylaxis

PEP: post-exposure prophylaxis

☔: condom 💬: have conversations 🧪: get tested

💉: vaccine/antibiotic 💊: antibiotics

💊💊💊💊💊💊💊: Daily HIV Antiretroviral Drugs (ART)

🪔+🏊: HIV/AIDS organizations/people

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Special thanks to David Gere (founding director of the UCLA Art & Global Health Center) and the UCLA DMA Faculty

Game profile @ UCLA Game Lab

The Queer Games Festival (Naarm/Melbourne) 2023 Awards - Shortlist

Bibliography:

Park, Ina. Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History, and Surprising Secrets of STDs. United States, Flatiron Books, 2021.