Category: Black cultural traditions
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Dialect
Designer: Laura Simpson (co-designer)Publisher: Self PublishedRelease Year: 2018Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Development; Mechanics; politics/ideology/history Play as members of an isolated community to create words and phrases that reflect values, history, and culture as you emphasize storytelling and the evolution of language. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Lasgidi Rats
Designer: Kenechukwu Ogbuagu, Peter AttahPublisher: NIBCARDRelease Year: 2019Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Development A great famine has descended upon the rat kingdom. However, there is hope. You, a guardian, must lead the surviving rats to the homes of Lasgidians (humans of Lasgidi). interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Rap Godz
Designer: Omari AkilPublisher: Colorway Game LabsRelease Year: 2020Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; As an up-and-coming rap artist, you must earn money, build your street cred, and improve your rap skills in order to become the ultimate rap god. interviews…
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Steal Away Jordan
Designer: Julia Bond EllingboePublisher: Stone Baby GamesRelease Year: 2007Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; Set during the United States antebellum period, in Steal Away Jordan you work to live out the collective stories of enslaved people and their secret goals. interviews…
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Harlem Unbound
Designer: Chris SpiveyPublisher: Darker Hue StudiosRelease Year: 2017Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Development, Playable Black Characters, Politics/ Ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System In the 1920s prohibition is in full swing in New York City. African Americans flee the South and create dynamic Black cultural life in Harlem. Classes, other…
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Slam City with Scottie Pippen
Developer: Digital PicturesPublisher: Digital PicturesRelease Year: 1994Platform: DOS, Sega 32X, Sega CDGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Narrative Themes, Voice Acting/Motion Capture In this FMV game you play one-on-one basketball with Scottie Pippen as your coach. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Sonic (Franchise)
Developer: SegaPublisher: SegaRelease Year: 1991-PresentPlatform: Android, Arcade, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, iOS, Java ME, macOS, Mobile phones, Windows, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5, PSP, PlayStation Vita, Genesis, Game Gear, Sega CD, Saturn, DreamcastMaster System, 32X, Pico, Leapster, LeapFrog Didj, Wii, Wii U, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox…
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Developer: Strange ScaffoldPublisher: Strange ScaffoldRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS, Win, XboxGenre: FPS, HorrorTaxonomy: Black Cultural Tradition, Black NPCs, Development, Fandom/Community/Reception, Intersectionality, Mechanics, Narrative Themes, Playable Black Characters, Politics/Ideology/History, Voice Acting/Motion Capture Neo-noir shooter where you play as James Savage and fight vampires and werewolves to save prisoners from your ex, Draculae, the lord of the vampires.…
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Black College Football: BCFX: The Xperience
Developer: Nerjyzed EntertainmentPublisher: Aspyr MediaRelease Year: 2006Platform: Win, Xbox 360Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Mechanics, Development, fandom/community/reception, Black cultural traditions A college football game that takes place on a series of HBI (Historically Black Institutions) campuses. Also includes two rhythm mini-games that depict the halftime show and the drum line challenge. interviews and other media…
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Treachery in Beatdown City
Developer: NuChallengerPublisher: NuChallengerRelease Year: 2020Platform: Switch/WinGenre: Action, FighterTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black Cultural traditions, politics/ ideology/ history; Narrative themes; fandom/reception/community; Intersectionality; mechanics In Beatdown City, after President Blake Obama is kidnapped by ninja terrorists and the police force is shut down, now-suspended police chief Antonio Santiago enlists the aid of his daughter Lisa and…