I have to build a game for a Game Jam, so I'm doing my research on the games that are already on this topic (Racial Equality).
You definitely opened my eyes for some stats that I was looking for at the same time that you closed my heart to it all as well:(( live is hard:/// but yeah... we have to keep going!
Rather dissapointing all in all. Hamfisted, not to mention the black sounding name study was rather...strange in its name selection, to say the least, with many questionable choices. For example a study on 1050 adults, asking them to rate various names with the most propable race of those having them, has resulted in a 59.7% error rate.
I do not agree that there are issues, however, to call them simply an aspect of "being black" is rather disingenuous to the actual issues and frankly insulting to those that have to deal with them.
Thank you for the feedback and trying the game. Concerning the names, we wanted to represent the data accurately and used the same names in the survey we quoted. You can find the rest of the research we used for the game at the link below. All the 'choices' and situations relate back to published research and each are real issues that can lead to negative outcomes for black people and often more positive outcomes for white people. As with all black people, my experience with racism is unique, but all black people in America live within a system that oppresses us. If you are a black person that was insulted by our game, I'm sorry. All the situations listed are 'actual issues' that we have to deal with. The goal of our game is to illustrate them and invite players to help change them.
I was perhaps a little to confrontational in this one, I am sorry about that. The link has given me some rather interesting studies I will be looking into a tad more, although I would like to point out that certain american circumstances could play into that a good bit, such as the ghettos being primarily black populated, at least to my knowledge, thus skewing some of the statistics, but I won't say that this is the only reason, more a tad of a word of caution. Thanks a lot for this well put together reply. I suppose without getting upset here I wouldn't have managed to get this kind of insight so uh...I suppose job accomplished?
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I have to build a game for a Game Jam, so I'm doing my research on the games that are already on this topic (Racial Equality).
You definitely opened my eyes for some stats that I was looking for at the same time that you closed my heart to it all as well:(( live is hard:/// but yeah... we have to keep going!
Thank you for your work!
>Because all art is political
There's nothing political about Mona Lisa or supertuxkart.
>When a system is racist, not saying something about it and opposing it supports that system
Some people just doesn't care to change the system or not change the system. I don't think there's anything with being indifferent.
>It is not enough to simply not be racist,one must be anti-racist.
No , It is enough to just not be racist. There's nothing wrong with being indifferent .
Rather dissapointing all in all. Hamfisted, not to mention the black sounding name study was rather...strange in its name selection, to say the least, with many questionable choices. For example a study on 1050 adults, asking them to rate various names with the most propable race of those having them, has resulted in a 59.7% error rate.
I do not agree that there are issues, however, to call them simply an aspect of "being black" is rather disingenuous to the actual issues and frankly insulting to those that have to deal with them.
Thank you for the feedback and trying the game. Concerning the names, we wanted to represent the data accurately and used the same names in the survey we quoted. You can find the rest of the research we used for the game at the link below. All the 'choices' and situations relate back to published research and each are real issues that can lead to negative outcomes for black people and often more positive outcomes for white people. As with all black people, my experience with racism is unique, but all black people in America live within a system that oppresses us. If you are a black person that was insulted by our game, I'm sorry. All the situations listed are 'actual issues' that we have to deal with. The goal of our game is to illustrate them and invite players to help change them.
- Matthew
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I was perhaps a little to confrontational in this one, I am sorry about that. The link has given me some rather interesting studies I will be looking into a tad more, although I would like to point out that certain american circumstances could play into that a good bit, such as the ghettos being primarily black populated, at least to my knowledge, thus skewing some of the statistics, but I won't say that this is the only reason, more a tad of a word of caution. Thanks a lot for this well put together reply. I suppose without getting upset here I wouldn't have managed to get this kind of insight so uh...I suppose job accomplished?
>As with all black people, my experience with racism is unique
It's probably not that unique. If all racism against black in USA is always unique that's just random chance at that point.
>but all black people in America live within a system that oppresses us
Assuming system here means law , show them to me .