playersexuality

English

Etymology

player +‎ sexuality

Adjective

playersexuality (uncountable)

  1. (video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.
    • 2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47:
      Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).
    • 2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:
      It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.
    • 2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer‎, page 183:
      In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:playersexuality.
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