Kim Allom & Kate Gray

This episode is NSFW as we've got Kim (studio manager at Defiant Development, where she’s worked on Hand of Fate, Hand of Fate 2, and Ski Safari: Adventure time. Also the co-founder of Blushbox Collective, a group of game developers exploring and promoting love and sexuality in video games, and the Heartbeat conference and game jam) and Kate (currently the narrative director at KO_OP and writer of the sex games column for Kotaku, previously a games journalist, video producer, on-camera host, scriptwriter, streamer, and community manager at companies ranging from Gamespot to Xbox) in to talk about sex, intimacy, and how they're used in game stories. Other topics include why it’s important to talk about sex now, becoming a stronger communicator, sexual values being good life values, exploring taboo subjects in games, how sex is portrayed in indie games vs big budget games, wanting better consensual content, the lack of funding for intimate interactive experiences, whether there are any aspects of relationships that are hard to translate to gameplay, VR porn, win states in sex games, how to make interactive relationships engaging, and the sexiest games.

Our Guests on the Internet

Kim's Twitter and Blush Box's website.

Kate's Twitter and column.

Stuff We Talked About

Lyst Summit

Heartbeat Symposium

Ladykiller in a Bind

Cibele

Dragon Age: Inquisition

Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator

One Night Stand

Mirror

Our theme music was composed by 2Mello, and our logo was created by Lily Nishita.