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…
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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 from Rick, Ezekiel, and the rest…
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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 the lives and relationships of university professor and convicted felon, Lee Everett…
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The Sims (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 2000-2023Platform: 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”, who can live in a variety of different worlds. In this simulation you are charged with…
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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 of St Armando. They are…
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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 been…