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In constructing gender and sexuality, designers often rely on the way humans look and act, but this really contrasts with the lived experiences of gender and sexuality that demand a framing of these terms outside of an object-oriented, categorical model. It’s about almost every game I have ever played in which I was forced to adopt a digital representation of myself. In many ways this conference presentation is about Minecraft, and in others it’s not. To make sense of this epistemological framework I’m then going to explore the limitations of ontological possibility in the game. I’ll then walk through the ways in which labor facilitates the gendering of players and vice versa. I will then talk about how this this framework differs from sociological understandings of gender and the lived experiences of people who play the game. This is also work that I am more comprehensively developing for my master’s thesis, provided the process of writing it doesn’t kill me over the next few weeks.īy way of some introduction to this paper, I’ll first describe how Minecraft presents itself and rhetorically defines gender and sexuality. Please note that we have only tested the current version on forge build 1614.Full disclosure, this presentation is an abbreviated analysis of a forthcoming book chapter on conventions of gender in Minecraft. If you don't want to use any software, you can install it by downloading the pack and pasting the contents into the root directory of a forge install. To play it on the technic launcher, simply download the launcher and go to the modpacks tab and search 'Wild West Frontier' and press install. OR if you use the technic launcher, you can find it here: To install it on curse, simply download the curse client and then under the minecraft->modpacks section, search 'Wild West Frontier' and it will appear. All ages welcome.įor those wishing to play the pack, you can either find it on curseforge here: /projects/wild-west-frontier A friendly community where there's always fun to be had, whether it be farming crop for a few coins or diving headfirst into the bandit underbelly.
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