Category: robust character creation system
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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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One Child’s Heart
Designer: Camdon WrightPublisher: Unicorn Motorcycle GamesRelease Year: 2020Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Take on the role of a child welfare professional participating in a new mental health care memory exploration experiment, the Central Limbic Engagement Recovery System, and support an imaginary child struggling with their life…
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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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Cyberpunk 2020
Designer: Mike PondsmithPublisher: R. Talsorian GamesRelease Year: 1988Platform: TabletopGenre: Role-Playing GameTaxonomy: Black NPCs; Development; Playable Black Characters; Robust Character Creation System; Set in the context of a dystopian future, a lack of government and police enforcement, and the presence of megacorporations fighting for power, you, as a cyberpunk, must fight to survive in this violent…
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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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Sunset Overdrive
Developer: Insomniac GamesPublisher: Microsoft StudiosRelease Year: 2014, 2018 (Win)Platform: Win/Xbox OneGenre: Action Adventure, Third Person Shooter Taxonomy: Robust character creation system; Playable Black character Set in Sunset City, in 2027, tasked with cleaning up the mess left behind from a party FizzCo, you must fight humans whose endocrine systems have gone into overdrive from consuming…
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NBA Street
Developer: NuFX, EA CanadaPublisher: EA Sports BIGRelease Year: 2001 (PS2), 2002 (GameCube)Platform: GameCube/PS2Genre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics; anti-Blackness/regressive characterizations Combining the talent and big names of the NBA with the attitude and atmosphere of streetball, you try to score…
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Madden (Franchise)
Developer: EAPublisher: EARelease Year: 1988, 1990-2022Platform: 3DO/Amiga/Android/Arcade/BlackBerry PlayBook/Game Boy/Game Boy Advance/Game Boy Color/Game Gear, GameCube/Genesis/iOS/Mac/Mega Drive/MS-DOS/Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo 64/Nintendo DS/PS/PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/PS Vita/Saturn/Super NES/Wii/Wii U/WIN/ Xbox/Xbox 360/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics Licensed by the NFL, players compete as…
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MLB: The Show
Developer: San Diego StudioPublisher: San Diego StudioRelease Year: 1997-2023Platform: PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5/PSP/PS Vita/Switch/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: SportsTaxonomy: Playable Black characters; voice acting/motion capture; Black NPCs; Black cultural traditions; Narrative themes; robust character creation system; fandom/community/reception; mechanics In this game you control an entire team or a select player in one of the 30 Major League Baseball teams.…