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Black hair and black bodies in gaming

Posted on December 30, 2022August 27, 2023 By bot

Black hair is beautiful.

Yet for far too long has been left to the wayside and treated as inferior, even in this day and age, and naturally, the video game industry is no exception.  During the Rendering Black Hair panel at Game Devs of Color Expo 2022, both the panelists and the audience shared stories of ignorance and discrimination they’ve experienced at the hands of non-black, especially white, developers. One of the panelists spoke about getting pushback from anime and games industry people when they wanted to draw dark-skinned characters with kinky hair.
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