Christine Love

Christine Love (born 10 December 1989) is a Canadian independent video game developer and writer. Love began creating visual novels while in university, making a few small games, visual novels, and pieces of written fiction before coming into prominence with the release of Digital: A Love Story in 2010. She went on to work on Love and Order, a dating simulation by Italian video game designer Celso Riva, as well as her own Don't Take It Personally, Babe, It Just Ain't Your Story , both released in 2011. Her first commercial project on which she was the primary developer was Analogue: A Hate Story , released in February 2012; Love dropped out of her English degree during its development, and has since been a full-time game developer. She released an expansion to the game, titled Hate Plus, in 2013. In 2016, she released the visual novel Ladykiller in a Bind. Her latest video game is the 2021 Get in the Car, Loser!, a road trip role-playing game and her first non-visual novel, while her latest work and first novel is Star Sword Nemesis, self-published in 2025.

Biography and career Christine Love was born on 10 December 1989.

Along with her visual novels, Love has also developed a few games using the interactive fiction tool Twine. These games include Even Cowgirls Bleed, and Magical Maiden Madison. In 2016, Love released a new visual novel, Ladykiller in a Bind. She described the game as "an erotic visual novel about social manipulation and girls tying up other girls". It was followed in 2021 by Get in the Car, Loser!, a role-playing game. In 2025, Love self-published a novel on Itch.io, Star Sword Nemesis, a science fiction romance story with illustrations by Max Schwartz.

Influences and philosophy Christine Love describes herself as "a writer first, and a game designer second", as writing was her initial goal. Love is also interested in the portrayal of gender and sexuality in video games; in Digital and Analogue, she was careful to avoid mentioning or assuming the gender of the player or the character they control, though the love interests in the games are female. Privately, however, she thinks of them as female, as her intention was to create games that could be easily appreciated by queer people such as herself, without having to project themselves onto a relationship that did not match up to their perceptions. Love believes that indie games have "more meaningful depictions of queer experiences" than those from larger studios.

Works Digital: A Love Story (2010) Love and Order (2011) Interstellar Selfie Station (2014) Ladykiller in a Bind (2016) Get in the Car, Loser! (2021)