Brenda Brathwaite: Gaming for Understanding
It’s never easy to get across the magnitude of complex tragedies so when Brenda Brathwite’s daughter came home from school asking about slavery, she did what she does for a living, she designed a game. She describes the surprising effectiveness of this game, and others, in helping the player really understand the story.
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Brenda Brathwaite
“Brenda Brathwaite is an awarding-winning game designer, artist, writer and game developer who entered the video game industry in 1981 at the age of 15.
She was named Woman of the Year by Charisma+2 Magazine in 2010, named one of the top 20 most influential women in the game industry by Gamasutra.com in 2008, and one of the 100 most influential women in the game industry by Next Generation magazine in 2007.
Nerve magazine also called her one of the the 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place. She is best known for her work on the Wizardry series of role-playing video games and, more recently, the non-digital series The Mechanic is the Message.”
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