![]() So it’s all of the time and energy aside from the artwork that was spent on the game was the writing, as opposed to a controller heavy game where they’re focusing on the mechanics,Ĭourtney: Right! Like you mentioned that we’re playing through Dark Souls again. Like you said, it’s a choose-your-own-adventure. Depend– depending on what kind of game you’re playing.Ĭourtney: The thing is the writing is often very, very good and then people don’t always expect that from something like a visual novel or a dating sim, but… A lot of the dating sims that we play, it isn’t to romance fictional characters, it’s for the writing which is often comedic. Royce: That’s the thing about a lot of dating sims. Not– not everything is super realistic anyway, but this game does seem very much rooted in realism. Which as an asexual couple, some people might think it’s a little silly that we sit down together to play video games of dating other people, but it’s actually– a lot of them are just silly. And you got absolutely hammered the night before, so you don’t remember getting here, you don’t remember her name… I’m sure some people can relate to that, but I personally cannot say that I have ever done that. You play a man who wakes up in the bed of a woman whom, you know, nothing about. It is the aftermath of a one-night stand. Royce: This is a dating aftermath simulator…?Ĭourtney: This a– Yes. And we’ve actually– We, as silly as it might sound, we’ve gotten really into playing dating simulators. And we love games like this, because there are multiple endings, and so you can replay through it multiple times and get a different experience. And in this game, like– like many visual novels, you have a selection of choices, things to say, things to do, and you pick your way. ![]() It’s really like a Choose Your Own Adventure story of sorts, you’re placed in a scenario with characters. But this style of game is something that we’ve been playing very frequently and it is a Visual Novel.Ĭourtney: Visual Novels are great! If you have never considered yourself to be a gamer, I want to highly encourage you to not discount visual novels. Recently we actually went back and played the original Dark Souls and Dark Souls Remastered. Royce: We have played a lot of different genres of video games over the years. On Twitter she’s over there Kinmoku being the online alias of this game developer. I’m going to shout her out right off the bat because I want you guys to pop over to her website, follow her on Twitter. So, like right off the bat massive, massive kudos to the developer of this game. There’s the writing, there’s the artwork. There’s so much that goes into a video game. It’s– it’s hard to make a complete game as an individual.Ĭourtney: Oh, it absolutely is! I mean the same is for video games, or any large scale creative project. I ended up landing in general software and after spending a couple of years there, decided that’s where I wanted to be, but I have had a history of working on video game related things that usually didn’t pan out because I got hyper focused on something very technical and then stopped caring after that. I never ended up doing any work for the games industry itself. My bachelor’s in Computer Science was focused in video game development. My Collegiate background is in video games. You actually have credentials, you are educated in the video games. So, as far as video games, I mean Royce, you and I play quite a few video games together and we have throughout the entire span of our relationship. So we love supporting creators from within the Ace community. And in fact, the developer of this game is actually a part of the Asexual community as well. We’re also going to be talking about just the general concept of a one-night stand from an Ace perspective. ![]() So even if you are not a video game player yourself, I really hope you’ll stick with us because we have a lot of great points that we want to touch on, even if you yourself are not a gamer. The video game in question that we’re talking about today is called One Night Stand. Courtney: Hey everyone, and welcome to the first episode of The Ace Couple Podcast wherein Courtney and Royce discuss a video game that they played.
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