{"id":11165,"date":"2011-04-07T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T11:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ken-levine-sex-in-games-is-about-people-not-understanding-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11165-ken-levine-sex-in-games-is-about-people-not-understanding-what-it-is","title":{"rendered":"Ken Levine: Sex in games is \u201cabout people not understanding what it is\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BioShock creator Ken Levine isn&rsquo;t into banging virtual elves or spacemen. Not just yet, anyway, because game designers are doing it all wrong.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s not about being interactive. I think it&rsquo;s more about people not understanding what it is&rdquo; he told <a href=\" http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2011\/04\/07\/levine-current-game-sex-like-puppets-with-their-clothes-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a>. &ldquo;If you think about the amount of, for example, nudity in a videogame&hellip; it&rsquo;s not even nudity. It&rsquo;s a puppet with its clothes off. There are other problems as well. It&rsquo;s kind of silly in videogames right now, because &ndash; again &ndash; puppets with their clothes off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s more like [the movie] Team America. The sex scene in Team America as opposed to, you know, the sex scene in Black Swan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The fact that&rsquo;s even controversial says that the perception of the industry is that we&rsquo;re making toys or something, as opposed to making creative expressions for a range of audiences &ndash; including adults. I think there&rsquo;s still some prudishness.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Actually, I wrote a<a href=\" http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/6141-Sex-games-and-why-its-not-working-out.html\" target=\"_self\"> MyGaming feature<\/a> on the topic sometime last year. I&rsquo;m not sure we should bother with this stuff until we can do it properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BioShock creator probably didn\u2019t like Anders in DAII either<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}