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Social justice in gaming
This document discusses designing board games that address issues of colonialism, representation, and social justice. It notes that some existing games simulate and glorify colonialism through mechanics that reward exploitation and ignore indigenous peoples. It suggests ways to design games that instead represent colonized peoples and struggles, make slavery and its harms visible, allow playing revolts against colonial systems, and incorporate complicity with injustice as a mechanic. The document advocates increasing debate, representation of marginalized groups, and organizing through groups promoting social justice in gaming.
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- 1. Social justice, gaming, players,and design Gaming seminar - 02020
- 2. • Colonialism simulated • Victoryby production, exploitation https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2070251/conquistador
- 3. •Empty lands •“settlers” or “colonists" •Nolimits to production •Victory by production, exploitation https://boardgamegeek.co m/image/1078232/puerto- rico
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- 5. Problems • Representation inproduction + content • Voice and action in the game vs ventriloquism • Visibility of peoples, exploitation • Stereotype
- 6. Dynamics • Increased debatewithin gaming communities • Rising public attention • Organize: http://www.gamesforchange.org/
- 7. • Play revolts, pacificism, separation •(Archipelago)
- 8. • Play and representthe colonized https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2027095/comancheria- rise-and-fall-comanche-empire
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- 10. • Play the struggle •(This Guilty Land) https://boardgamegeek.com/image/4409000/guilty-land
- 11. • Slavery is visible •Choice as part of history https://boardgamegeek.com/image/540029/endeavor
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- 13. • Don’t represent •(Five Tribes) https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/40219/five-tribes- revised-slaves-are-out-fakirs
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