Category: Development

  • GODSEND: Agenda

    Designer: Jerry D. GraysonPublisher: Khepera PublishingRelease Year: 2001Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters In an alternate Earth, impacted by godlike aliens, there are six factions you can join as you ultimately examine the influence and impact you have on the world and on your own legacy and future. interviews and…

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  • You Will Destroy Something Beautiful

    Designer: Samantha DayPublisher: itch.ioRelease Year: 2018Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Working collaboratively as a group, your team describes a beautiful thing, its location, and who you are as you also explain why you want to destroy the beautiful thing. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List

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  • Wicked and Wise

    Designer: Fertessa AllysePublisher: Weird Giraffe GamesRelease Year: 2022Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Play as a team of a Mouse and Dragon to fight over tricks, treasures, and coins as you compete to be crowned king of the caves. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List

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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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  • #Feminism: Additional Games

    Designer: Jonaya Kemper (co-designer)Publisher: Pelgrane PressRelease Year: 2017Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development Thirty-three nano games featuring contemporary feminist issues. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List

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  • Android: Netrunner

    Developer: Damon StonePublisher: Fantasy Flight Games Release Year: 2012Platform: Card GameGenre: Living Card GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Set in New Angeles, home of the Beanstalk, this game pits a megacorporation and its resources against the talents of lone runners in a cyberpunk world. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List

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  • Black Card Revoked

    Designer: Latesha Williams, Lay BoboPublisher: Cards For All PeopleRelease Year: 2015Platform: Card GameGenre: Party GameTaxonomy: Anti-Blackness; Development; Mechanics Designed as trivia, the title of this game plays on the possibility of having your Black identity taken–or your “black card revoked”– when you don’t know reference to, or hallmarks of, Black vernacular culture. interviews and other…

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  • BEEEEES!

    Designer: Marcus Ross, Cara RyanPublisher: Indie Boards and CardsRelease Year: 2017Platform: Board GameGenre: Taxonomy: Development The High Queen around the meadow is seeking an heir. You’ll assemble your hive, competing to make the best hive. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List

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  • The Witcher (RPG)

    Designer: Cody Pondsmith, Lisa PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 2018Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters Set in the Witcher universe, during the events of Assassin of Kings, Wild Hunt, and the third Nilfgaardian War, this roleplaying game allows players to craft a backstory for their character in order to deal…

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