This story includes spoilers for “Gone Home.”
The lesbian kiss was an accident. In 1999, developers for “The Sims” displayed a prototype of the game at a booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the world’s leading gaming and tech convention. In the game, players simulate a virtual life as they build their own avatar, meet friends and lovers, and create a home. Patrick Barrett, a gay man, trained the AI that determined the characters’ romantic relationships in “The Sims.”
