Black Lives Matter.
So You Want to Talk About Race – Ijeoma Oluo
Black Game Developers. Hire them. Buy their stuff.
Games by Black creators:
https://radmagpie.org/blog/2020/2/6/support-black-game-developers
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/02/26/games-developed-by-black-developers-you-should-look-out-for
https://www.inverse.com/gaming/video-games-by-black-developers
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In this episode we talk holidays! Why do we have certain holidays in games, and not others? Why is Christmas in games not quite Christmas, but a weird pagan version of Christmas? Is it only because game devs want to annoy right wing American Christians? Where do all these in-game traditions come from anyway? (It’s probably Saturnalia.)
What about ad-hoc celebrations? Ugh, so much about holidays I almost can’t wait for the next lot of turkey I get to eat! Maybe with some traditional Halloween turnips.
Battlefield 1 tweet by Jan David Hassel
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Hello! In this episode I have to apologise for the sound quality; we were recording at ETHICOMP 2018 in Sopot, Poland and the room was a bit more echoey than expected (and noisier) and apparently I didn’t point the microphone in quite the right direction. The sound does get better as the episode goes on. But still, we have excellent content as we are with Dr Erica Neely, who gave an amazing talk about the ethics of loot boxes! We talk about loot boxes, paying for levels, paying for gear, cheating, catching up, reputation, and fairness for a bit, then Tyr comes up with an amazing song about Twinkle Ponies. (Apparently songs after the credits is now a Thing, so enjoy!) ✨🦒✨
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