Creating Emotion in Games: The Craft and Art of Emotioneering

Player Toward NPC Relationship Deepening Techniques (Chapter 2.13)

In your relationship with Maya, you'll have several feelings toward her simultaneously:

• Sexual attraction

• Appreciation, for she helps you avoid death several times when you first enter her world

• Suspicion, because you know she also works for the Boss

• Sympathy as you learn that everything she's doing she needs to do in order to survive

• A growing desire to protect her

Layered feelings add depth to a relationship.