Chris and Sheva | Resident Evil 5. Page 5. MEASURED REPRESENTATION.
AND THE LOGICS OF INTEGRATION. Sheva alternate costume | Resident Evil 5
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The Killer of Sheep Of videogames
Tanner Higgin (@fearv) University of California, Riverside / GameDesk
“The question of political power has been routinely displaced as a vapid fetishization of the visible has emerged to take its place.” Robyn Wiegman
MEASURED REPRESENTATION AND THE LOGICS OF INTEGRATION
FemShep Contest Choices | Mass Effect 3
Media appropriate rhetorics of equity through measured representation while maintaining institutional and structural systems of privilege.
MEASURED REPRESENTATION AND THE LOGICS OF INTEGRATION
Characters | Gears of War 3
MEASURED REPRESENTATION AND THE LOGICS OF INTEGRATION
Chris and Sheva | Resident Evil 5
MEASURED REPRESENTATION AND THE LOGICS OF INTEGRATION
Sheva alternate costume | Resident Evil 5
We need to fight for DIVERSITY THAT EXCEEDS visibility.
We need new forms of inclusive expression.
THE VIDEOGAME INDUSTRY IS
83% white 2005 IGDA Report
DEMOGRAPHICS AND design
Spec Ops: The Line | Portal | Bioshock | Red Dead Redemption
DEMOGRAPHICS AND DESIGN
MAKING GAMES MEAN SOMETHING TO PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WHITE GUYS
“Playing Spec Ops gave me a chance to glimpse at the psychology the privileged class. Design is commonly modeled around a player doing what the developers make them do; if the only option is to beat in a guy's head with a golf club, we must take it. It is predicated on the plight of the heterosexual white man, moving in a system that favors them as long as they would, kindly, do what's expected of them. The trick of the game, much like it's ideological predecessor Bioshock, is the only way to 'win' or not do terrible things is to stop playing. Turn off the game. To look away. For some reason, people laud games like Spec Ops and Bioshock for not giving a solution, for not putting in a step forward. That is the appraisal of people whose well-being doesn't ride on someone finding an answer to oppression. “ Mattie Brice | “Would You Kindly”
MAKING GAMES MEAN SOMETHING TO PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WHITE GUYS
Anna Anthropy | Dys4ia
MAKING GAMES MEAN SOMETHING TO PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WHITE GUYS
Merritt Kopas | Lim
MAKING GAMES MEAN SOMETHING TO PEOPLE THAT AREN'T WHITE GUYS
REPETITION MIX CUT SIGNIFYIN' BOASTING
Afro-diasporic tradition IMPROVISATION TOASTING
FROM BLACK FILM TO BLACK GAMES
“Using a semiological framework, a definition of black film would be cinema whose signifying practices are derived from a black cultural tradition and whose mechanisms for image production use these traditions as a means through which artistic languages are mediated and expressed.” Gladstone Yearwood | Black Film as Signifying Practice
FROM BLACK FILM TO BLACK GAMES
Deus Ex Human Revolution
FROM BLACK FILM TO BLACK GAMES
Killer of Sheep
FROM BLACK FILM TO BLACK GAMES
Ruben & Lullaby
FROM BLACK FILM TO BLACK GAMES
Read blog post version of presentation at www.tannerhiggin.com.
