Category: Narrative themes
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Slam City with Scottie Pippen
Developer: Digital PicturesPublisher: Digital PicturesRelease Year: 1994Platform: DOS, Sega 32X, Sega CDGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Narrative Themes, Voice Acting/Motion Capture In this FMV game you play one-on-one basketball with Scottie Pippen as your coach. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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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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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 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…
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Tacoma
Developer: FullbrightPublisher: FullbrightRelease Year: 2017Platform: Linux, Mac, PS4, WIN, Xbox OneGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Mechanics, Intersectionality Set abroad a high-tech space station, Tacoma, in 2088, you are tasked to recover the station’s AI and find out why the station was abandoned by the crew. interviews and other media scholarship…
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Sunset
Developer: Tale of TalesPublisher: Tale of TalesRelease Year: 2015Platform: Linux, Mac, WINGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black Characters, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Politics/Ideology/History, Narrative Themes, Intersectionality You play as Angela, an African-American housekeeper, who is working for the wealthy and politically connected Gabriel Ortega in the a fictional country of Anchuria. Ultimately you must make decisions about…
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Spider Man: Miles Morales
Developer: Insomniac Games, Nixxes SoftwarePublisher: Insomniac GamesRelease Year: 2020, 2022 (WIN)Platform: PS4, PS5, WINGenre: Action AdventureTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Black Cultural Traditions, Voice Acting/Motion Capture, Narrative Themes, Politics/Ideology/History, Black NPCs, Intersectionality Set in Harlem this game focuses on Miles Morales’ struggles to balance his life as a teenager and his duties as the second Spider-Man,…