Category: Intersectionality
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Objectif
Designer: A.M. DarkePublisher: Self-PublishedRelease Year: 2017Platform: Card GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Development, Intersectionality, Mechanics Showcasing an inclusive cast of hand-drawn characters across a spectrum of gender, culture, and race, Objectif has players competing to play a card that will match the description of a card that the Objectif Eye, or judge, has played. Players must defend…
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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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Dead Island 2
Developer: Dambuster StudiosPublisher: Deep SilverRelease Year: 2023Platform: PS4, PS5, WIN, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/SGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Intersectionality, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/ Regressive Characterizations Several months after the events of Dead Island, Los Angeles is put under full quarantine and you play as one of six survivors with distinct survival…
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Dead Island
Developer: TechlandPublisher: Deep SilverRelease Year: 2011Platform: Linux, Mac, PS3, PS4, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: ActionTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Intersectionality, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/ Regressive Characterizations You play one of four survivors who are immune to the zombie virus and fighting for their lives and to save humanity for a variety of…
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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…
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The Walking Dead: Michonne
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound Entertainment Release Year: 2016Platform: Android, iOS, Mac, PS3, PS4, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Haunted by her past, coping with unimaginable loss and regret, you will discover what took Michonne away…
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The Walking Dead (Series)
Developer: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentPublisher: TellTale Games, Skybound EntertainmentRelease Year: 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020 (Switch)Platform: Android, iOS, Kindle Fire, Mac, Ouya, PS3, PS4, PSVita, Switch, WIN, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Anti-Blackness, Regressive Characterizations, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality An episodic series that traces…
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The Sims (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 2000-PresentPlatform: Android, BlackBerry 10, Blackberry Curve, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, iOS, iPod, Mac, N-Gage, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS, PS2, PS3, PS4, PSP, WIN, WIN Phone, Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox OneGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black NPCs, Fandom/Community/Reception, Significant Black Cultural Mods, Robust Character Creation System, Intersectionality Creating virtual people, “Sims”,…
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The Journey Down
Developer: SkyGoblinPublisher: SkyGoblinRelease Year: 2010, 2014, 2017Platform: iOS, Linux, Mac, PS4, Switch, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: Point and Click AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Bwana and his trusted sidekick Kito struggle to make ends meet at their gas station in a corner of Kingsport Bay on the outskirts…
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The Gunk
Developer: Image and Form GamesPublisher: ThunderfulRelease Year: 2021Platform: WIN, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|SGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Rani, a scavenger who has arrived on an alien planet with her partner Beck. As you search for treasure you discover that the planet’s various biomes have…