If you’re a player like Lucy Blundell, that experience can be very different. Blundell is the developer behind One Night Stand and Videoverse, a pair of visual novels that touch on dating culture in different ways. She also identifies as gray-ace, a nuanced identity within the asexual spectrum. For her, dating in games that treat sexual intimacy as the end goal can be more alienating than fun. Communicating that discomfort can be challenging, though, because asexuality is an often misunderstood identity that’s underrepresented in media.
