Tag: Mac
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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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Tiny Bird Garden
Developer: Super Retro DuckPublisher: Super Retro DuckRelease Year: 2018Platform: Android/iOS/Mac/WINGenre: SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black characters Set up and customize your garden space and wait to meet and befriend strange, silly, and magical birds. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List
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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 professors 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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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 Return to List
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Sunset
Developer: Tale of TalesPublisher: Tale of TalesRelease Year: 2015Platform: Linux/Mac/WinGenre: AdventureTaxonomy: Development, Playable Black characters, voice acting, 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 the role you…
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Subnautica: Below Zero
Developer: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCPublisher: Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Shiny Shoe LLCRelease Year: 2021Platform: Mac/PS4/PS5/Switch/WIN/Xbox One/Xbox Series X/SGenre: Action Adventure, Survival Taxonomy: Development; Playable Black characters, Voice acting/ motion capture Taking place two years after the first game, scientist Robin Ayou travels to 4546B to learn the circumstances of the death of her sister,…
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Slime Rancher
Developer: Monomi ParkPublisher: Monomi ParkRelease Year: 2017, 2018 (PS4), 2021 (Switch)Platform: Linux/Mac/Switch/PS4/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Adventure, SimulationTaxonomy: Playable Black Characters, Simulation Beatrix LeBeau, a young rancher, who set out for a life a thousand years away from Earth on the Far, Far Range. where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes. interviews and other…
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SkateBird
Developer: Glass Bottom GamesPublisher: Glass Bottom GamesRelease Year: 2021Platform: Linux/Luna/Mac/Switch/WIN/Xbox OneGenre: Sports Taxonomy: Development You play as a small pet bird, saddened by their unnamed human owner no longer skateboarding, you take up skateboarding in order to make yourself happy again. interviews and other media scholarship Return to List