Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games - Softcover

McDonald, Heidi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482237989 ISBN 13: 9781482237986

Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press, 2017

Synopsis

Scholars and professionals from all over the world, across experience levels and the gender and sexuality spectrum, share experiences and analysis of romance and sexuality in video games.

Whether discussing casual sex in the Star Wars universe; analyzing various Otome games; examining "the gaze" in various games; player romance behavior in games; or exploring the ethical ramifications of sexuality in virtual reality and other emerging technologies, this book discusses what players want in video game romance, and how developers can best deliver it.

Key Features:

• Examines the past, present, and future of romance in single-player, role-playing games
• Discusses common presentations of romance in single-player, role-playing games― both in the category and game mechanics that drive romance
• Discusses research on how players define a satisfying game romance and what specific steps narrative designers can take to design satisfying games
• Explains the notion of the empathic game and explores its importance in relation to romance in game design

About this title

About the Author

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."

Edition details

• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1482237989
• ISBN 13: 9781482237986
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316