Game Devs of Color Expo 2018
2018-07-14
New York City, United States
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as the organisers put it
Find talks, panels, interviews, and games from the 2018 Game Devs of Color Expo.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Opening Message | 20m | |
Welcome and orientation to Game Devs of Color Expo: venue moved to the Schomburg, sponsors include Xbox, Unity, Nintendo and others, and the expo highlights… | ||
| Microtalk - The Past, Present & Future of Representation in Games | Yussef Cole | 11m |
Argues that Cuphead’s 1920s Fleischer/Disney homage borrows minstrel archetypes (devil, trickster, gambling associations) which explains why people of color… | ||
| Microtalk - Failure and Feedback | Shana T Bryant | 11m |
Walks through a concrete pitching framework: a pitch equals an idea well told with an ask, three required parts (beginning middle end) and three common failure… | ||
| Microtalk - Finding Strength in the Struggle: On Creating a Social Impact Game | Tanya Kan | 14m |
A 3D visual novel called Solace State models democratic erosion and civic resistance by turning interviews with Hong Kong activists and comparative democracy… | ||
| Panel - The Many Faces of Game Development | Tara E. Walker, Shawn Pierre, Pattie Umali, Mary Martha E. Ford-Dieng, Yvonne Thevenot | 42m |
Local devs juggle concrete projects and hard numbers: a working-title board game You're Not Invited to the Cookout in mechanics testing, a musical puzzle and a… | ||
| Panel - The 128 Bit Personality | Jordan Minor, TJ Hughes, Mona Aiyed, Tyriq Plummer, Sheila Moore | 44m |
Panel lays out concrete tactics: use Twitch and YouTube for dev streams twice a week, run a Patreon and Kickstarter (one indie game raises funding then ships… | ||
| Panel - Fight the Power: Activism + Politics in Game Design | Shawn Alexander Allen, A. M. Darke, Tim Flusk, Dee Del Rosario, Keerthik Omanakuttan | 53m |
Panel argues that design details carry political force: stealth mechanics get repurposed to simulate social passing and survival navigation rather than ninja… | ||
| Panel - Game Design For the Culture | Sandra Honigman, Elaine Gomez, Emperatriz Ung, Anthony Torres | 47m |
COO (Ku) is a small independent project digitizing and preserving Taino sites for Puerto Rico, funded out-of-pocket, contracting artists, and aiming to turn… | ||
| Microtalk - Whaaat! PoC Don't Get Depression | Bahiyya KhAn | 10m |
Argues that mental illness in South African Black and brown communities is widely dismissed as depression seen as "white people" problem and traces that denial… | ||
| Microtalk - Roleplaying Romance | Sharang Biswas | 14m |
Argument: analog roleplaying lets queer sexuality escape the transactional script of many digital romances by turning sex into explicit, playable mechanics… | ||
| Microtalk - Developing A Community, Miles Away From Home | Juan Alejandro Rodriguez Morais | 10m |
Co-founded the Panama Game Jam while living in New Zealand and organizes the Global Game Jam in Panama, running four events so far: two Global Jams and two… | ||
| Closing Message | Shawn Alexander Allen | 05m |
The Expo runs as a volunteer-run nonprofit with a year‑round curation process—tweeting, digging into websites, and personally inviting creators—resulting in a… | ||
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