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Game Narrative Summit: Black Centered Stories for Everyone
Charles Beacham (Narrative Director, Afrime Studios)
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Track: Game Narrative
Format: Lecture
Vault Recording: TBD
Audience Level: All
Charles Beacham, Narrative Director of the upcoming game Unyverse and formerly of Destiny 2 and Marvel Comics talks about the industry's history of creating immersive and incredible RPGs and his approach to bringing authentic black characters, themes, mythology and story structures to life in a medium that historically underserves this community, and doing so in a way that these themes are accessible to everyone.
Takeaway
Afrocentric stories are universal and won't exclude a wider audience, as we saw with Black Panther. The industry is overlooking an audience of 670 million players. Indie developers are the ones to take on this challenge. Afrime Studios, a majority black owned studio, is the right studio to do this first
Intended Audience
This talk is intended for students and professionals who are exploring new ways to tell stories. It is the hope you walk away with inspiration that you too can look for audiences for whom their stories remain untold in games.
