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^[1], page 183:

     In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:playersexuality.

Related terms

• playersexual