Games Library Night: Games, Sex & Romance

Goldsmiths, Department of Computing

Goldsmiths' Games Library Night is back! Join us for a relaxing evening to talk about games, dating sims, sex, and romance.

Goldsmiths Library

Goldsmiths, University of London, is organising a relaxing evening to talk about computer games, dating sims, otome games, sex, romance and intimacy, all filtered through the lens of technology.For the occasion, Goldsmiths is opening its door to all people interested in playing games and listening to cool folks working in the game industry!<ul><li>📅 Friday 10th November 2023</li><li>🕕 Talks start at 6pm</li><li>🗺️ Goldsmiths Library (Rutherford Building, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6PP)</li></ul>

The event will be opened by Alan Zucconi, Goldsmiths' Director of Postgraduate Studies, who will introduce the three guest speakers for the evening.✨ "Don't Fade to Black: Why Games Should Embrace Sex" by Ben Sabin. Ben is a freelance narrative designer and games writer who specialises in interactive fiction and branching narratives. He's worked for a number of clients, such as Wizards of the Coast and ITV, and has multiple commercially shipped games under his belt.✨ "Quality Smooch: A talk about how to sex up pixels — and make it real good" by Anna Winterstein is a Narrative Designer at Lively, a Keywords Studio, and has also worked freelance on games ranging from cosy visual novels to racing managers. She has a particular interest in romance and sexuality in games; her master's thesis dealt with dating sims, she relished writing sex scenes for Love Island the Game, and she is currently working as writer and editor on several indie, NSFW otome projects.✨ "Gamified Sextech" by Chloé Locatelli. Chloé is a PhD researcher at King’s College London’s Digital Humanities Department. Having completed her Gender Studies Master’s at Universidad de Granada, Spain and Università di Bologna, Italy, Chloé's doctoral work explores the marketing and design of sextech for heterosexual men. This includes, but is not limited to, erotic chatbots; digitalised sex dolls; VR porn experiences, and “sex robots”.T he event will be recorded, and the talks might feature explicit images and videos.

T﻿he event is part of the Games Library Night, which aims to bring light to underrepresented voices in the game industry.

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