Session Name: | Romance Games: Unpopular Genre or Untapped Market? |
Speaker(s): | Heidi McDonald |
Company Name(s): | Schell Games |
Track / Format: | Design |
Overview: | Heidi McDonald, author of the ICING Model for narrative romance, builds on her work in the area of NPC romance. McDonald examines why romance games as a genre have historically failed in Western culture, and using her survey data and the ICING Model as a road map, postulates about how romance games could actually become successful as a game genre in the future. |