Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games

ISBN-13: 9781482237986 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 290 str.

Opis

Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games focuses on the history and nature of romance in role-playing games, the mechanics generally used to deliver romance, and ways in which it is typically integrated. The book presents research on the difference between romance behaviors in real life vs. role-playing games. It breaks out romance research data by gender and also touches on alternate sexuality romance in games. The book discusses how to write better romance games based on gaming scholarship, psychology, and other considerations. The romance systems of various games are also discussed in detail.

O autorze

Editor Heidi McDonald, who has lectured worldwide and been published multiple times on this topic, presents this collection as a means of continuing an industry-wide conversation about love and sexuality in video games. More than ever before, players are looking for emotional connection in their games, and this volume interprets how this is accomplished currently overall and in specific cases, and could be done better in the future."