Category: Mechanics
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Michael Jordan in Flight
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 1993Platform: DOSGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics In this game the player is on a 3-on-3 half-court with Jordan on their team. This is game includes a knock-out tournament mode. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Major League Baseball (NES)
Developer: AtlusPublisher: LJNRelease Year: 1988Platform: NESGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; mechanics Featuring all twenty-six teams, you both manage and play baseball, stressing the importance of choosing a well-balanced team. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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Grid Force: Mask of the Goddess
Developer: Dreamnauts StudiosPublisher: Playtra GamesRelease Year: 2022Platform: Win/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: RPGTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters; mechanics Being the chosen one, born from the will of Clea, guide Donnna on her journey to build the perfect team, realize their potential, and defeat the Goddesses of Gora to save the future. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Freedom!
Developer: MECCPublisher: MECCRelease Year: 1992Platform: Apple IIGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black characters, narrative themes, Mechanics, Black NPCs, Anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations Taking the role of an enslaved African American in the southern United States during 1830, the player must escape a plantation and get to one of the free northern states. interviews and other media scholarship Return to…
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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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Chrono Ghost
Developer: NITETIME StudiosPublisher: NITETIME StudiosRelease Year: 2019Platform: WinGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Development; mechanics As the Chrono Ghost, you must prove yourself to the Spirit of Time. You have the power to speed up, slow down, and stop time. As you progress in the game, your dexterity, reaction speed, and ability are tested against a flow of…
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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: Freedom Cry
Developer: UbisoftPublisher: UbisoftRelease Year: 2013 (DLC) 2014 (Stand Alone)Platform: PS3/PS4/Stadia(2021)/Switch(2019 Compilation)/Win/Xbox 360/Xbox OneGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; politics/ideology/history; voice acting/motion capture; mechanics; intersectionality In this game you assume the role of Adéwalé, a former slave who is trained as an assassin and who found freedom as a pirate. He’s…