Romance in video games always felt secondary to me. If I don't need to do it or if there's no big reward waiting for me after the romance storyline, I skip it. But after my recent chat with games and media researcher Amy Brierley-Beare, I'm inclined to go back to some titles and play them differently.
I found Amy after reading her paper The Language of Digital Love on Game Studies. She's a lecturer at the University of Adelaide in Australia and specializes in how romance and intimacy are represented in gaming. Her goal with this article was to categorize love relationships in video games so everyone can better understand how each type of romance affects player experience.
