Category: politics/ ideology/ history
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Rap Godz
Designer: Omari AkilPublisher: Colorway Game LabsRelease Year: 2020Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development, Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; As an up-and-coming rap artist, you must earn money, build your street cred, and improve your rap skills in order to become the ultimate rap god. interviews…
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Steal Away Jordan
Designer: Julia Bond EllingboePublisher: Stone Baby GamesRelease Year: 2007Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions; Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Politics/ ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System; Set during the United States antebellum period, in Steal Away Jordan you work to live out the collective stories of enslaved people and their secret goals. interviews…
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Harlem Unbound
Designer: Chris SpiveyPublisher: Darker Hue StudiosRelease Year: 2017Platform: Board GameGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black Cultural Traditions, Black NPCs, Development, Playable Black Characters, Politics/ Ideology/ history; Robust Character Creation System In the 1920s prohibition is in full swing in New York City. African Americans flee the South and create dynamic Black cultural life in Harlem. Classes, other…
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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 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…