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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JUNE 18 | GENDER, SEXUALITY, AND VIDEO GAMES
Interview: Christine Love on Creating Inclusive Games
Cover Story: How this independent developer’s text adventures reflect her own desires — and those of others, too.
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Honestly, the whole ‘game-making’ thing is still new to me,” pink-haired Christine Love muses. “I always thought I was going to be, like, a novelist — and have to support myself doing some shitty programming 9-to-5 job while I worked towards getting published.”
Canadian-based developer Love is probably best known for Digital: A Love Story, a visual novel set “five minutes into the future of 1998.” “I did a bunch of non-branching visual novels from late high school into university,” she says, “and Digital was just another one of those; I never thought of myself as being a game-maker until suddenly the indie gaming press was calling me one. It was just a short one-month project, as was Don’t Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain’t Your Story.”
