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March 21, 2006
Backspace: ER for Writers - Unbelievable Sex Scenes
In an article on Backspace, ER for Writers: Some of the Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Avoid Them, writer Jerry Gross discusses unbelievable sex scenes.
Writing a believable sex scene is very difficult for writers, not because of prudery or embarrassment, but because too much attention is given to describing the participants’ sexual acts and not enough to their thoughts, their psychology, their state of mind.
One could apply this to MMOEGs easily. If sex games spend all their time on the visuals, the animations, they could miss the deeper and sexier connection - the one happening between players. In discussions with various individuals about their experience with emergent sex in games, it seems the text is often hotter than the visuals.
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