Rated T for Triggered: NY Times Does Roundup of Absurd Progressive Gaming
18th October 2019
If competitive soccer games are too toxically masculine for your taste, and if your idea of “diversity” is an all-black cast, The New York Times has some games for you!
The Times in mid-October posted “Fear, Anxiety and Hope: What It Means to Be a Minority in Gaming,” a roundup of diverse and (uniformly) progressive video game creators who The Times hopes will replace gaming’s “toxic” culture.
Many of the games specifically deal with the creators’ own trauma and issues of identity. From an artistic perspective, the classic advice of “write what you know” is an understandable starting point, but many of these creators seem happy to jump off the deep end.
In Davionne Gooden’s “She Dreams Elsewhere” — which is apparently a “diverse” game because it features “an all-black cast” (“diverse” evidently means not white) — themes of “anxiety and depression” take center stage.