Digital Love: Romance and Sexuality in Games

Digital Love: Romance in Single-Player, Role-Playing 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.