There are a couple of interesting conferences happening in Texas at the minute. Unfortunately, gamesblog's conference quota has been breached, so the Austin Game Conference, the Women's Games Conference and the Game Writers Conference are out.
Thankfully the world wide web has coverage of some of the more interesting elements, including this interview with Brenda Brathwaite, game designer of Playboy: The Mansion (among copious others) and one of the top tier at the IGDA's Sex in Games SIG, which she gave to Next Generation before hosting a panel at the WGC.
The problem is we haven't figured out how to show relationships in a game. That makes it really challenging to create good quality stories that include sexual content. We're some way from making a videogame version of the Graduate.
