Category: Black NPCs
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Fashion Police Squad
Developer: Mopeful GamesPublisher: No More RobotsRelease Year: 2022Platform: WinGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, Black cultural traditions, Black NPCs; mechanics As a part of the Fashion Police Squad you will fight against fashion crimes. Using attire enhancing weaponry you get to fix the fashion faux pas around the city. interviews and other media scholarship Return…
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EarthNight
Developer: CleaversoftPublisher: CleaversoftRelease Year: 2019Platform: Mac/PS4/PS5/Switch/WinGenre: PlatformerTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Voice Acting/motion capture; Black Cultural Traditions; mechanics; Narrative themes As dragons have taken over Earth, humanity has fled to space. With that, you must help Stanley and Sydney skydive back to Earth while careening across snake-life dragons above the planet. interviews and other…
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Dot’s Home
Developers: Weathered Sweater, Aerial_Knight, Titan ARX InteractivePublisher: Rise-Home StoriesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Android/iOS/Mac/WinGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Black cultural traditions, politics/ideology/history, narrative themes, Playable Black characters, Black NPCs, intersectionality; mechanics Follow a young Black woman in Detroit living in her grandmother’s beloved home as she travels through time to relive key moments in her family’s…
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Def Jam: Vendetta
Developer: AKI Corporation, EA CanadaPublisher: Sports BIG, EA GamesRelease Year: 2003Platform: Gamecube, PS2Genre: FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, voice acting/motion capture, Black NPCs, fandom/community/reception You play as one of 4 characters who fight through 46 opponents (many of whom are Def Jam artists). Story elements unfold as you win more wrestling matches. interviews and other media…
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Def Jam: Icon
Developer: EA ChichagoPublisher: EARelease Year: 2007Platform: PS3, Xbox 360Genre: Action, FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs, fandom/community/ reception, voice acting/motion capture Battles are fought using 30 characters based on Def Jam artists such as Redman, Ghostface Killah, Ludacris, Sean Paul and more, each with a different style. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Def Jam: Fight For NY
Developer: EA Canada, AKI CorporationPublisher: EARelease Year: 2004Platform: PlayStation 2Genre: FightingTaxonomy: Playable Black characters. voice acting/motion capture, Black NPCs, fandom/community/reception A one-on-one fighting game that allows you to choose from five different fighting styles and features 64 other characters based on Def Jam artists. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Battlefield 1: Harlem Hellfighters
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 2016Platform: PS4/Win/Xbox OneGenre: FPSTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs, Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; fandom/community/reception Overseeing a member of the unit recounting their assignment to the French Army in advance of official U.S particpation in WW1, the Hellfighters defend against an Imperial German attack. DLC that was exclusive to pre-orders and certain special…
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Barkley Shut Up and Jam!
Developer: AccoladePublisher: Accolade, Sony Electronic Publishing, Den’Z, Piko InteractiveRelease Year: 1994Platform: Genesis, SNES, EvercadeGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, Black NPCs In this game you play as Charles Barkley or a fictional player for two-on-two games of street ball across the US. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan
Developer: Kiro’o GamesPublisher: Kiro’o Games, Dear Villagers, Plug In DigitalRelease Year: 2016Platform: WinGenre: RPGTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; Intersectionality; politics/ideology/history; mechanics Set in a 2D setting, in Auriona, based upon the cultures of Africa, you play as Enzo Kori-Odan, the prince of Zama, who is betrayed by his…
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Assassin’s Creed: Liberation
Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftRelease Year: 2012, 2014 (Remake), 2019 (Remaster)Platform: PS3/PS4/PS Vita/Stadia(2021)/Switch/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics; intersectionality Set in 18th-century Colonial America, You play as Aveline, an Afro-French Assassin and the first female protagonist in the series. Aveline takes on 3 roles…