Love Stories in Video Games
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2021-02-12

Love is a theme that is underrepresented in videogames, but some of our greatest stories, whether Pride and Prejudice or Romeo and Juliet center around this elusive emotion. Interactivity affords us a new range of possibilities when it comes to exploring love though, both in mechanics and aesthetics, and this video traces some of the most interesting attempts by game designer to capture it. Play allows us to participate in the examination of love in fascinating ways, perhaps allowing us to peer deeper into matters of the heart.

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Sources

- Why we Love,  Helen Fischer 

- Sonnet 116 William Shakespeare
 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds

- Game Love : Essays on Play and Affection , Enevold, Jessica, MacCallum-Stewart and others.