Why You Need Diversity in Your Games

Chris Barney
Perspectives in Game Design
13 min readMar 5, 2017

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Essay covering the topics from my ECGC 2017 talk.

So to start this out, a little about me. I’m a privileged white cis male game developer.

Many of you may stop reading right there, and that’s reasonable. You almost certainly know all of the things that I am going to say in this article. I want to make clear here though that this article does not attempt to declare the Reason…

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Video Game Designer (Poptropica), Board Game Designer (Fall of the Last City), Asst. Prof. (Northeastern University), Speaker (GDC, ECGC, BFig, Pax, DevCom)