An exploration of social justice in gaming, with an emphasis on tabletop games.

1. Social justice, gaming,
players, and design
Gaming seminar - 02020

2. • Colonialism
simulated
• Victory by
production,
exploitation
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2070251/conquistador

3. •Empty lands
•“settlers” or
“colonists"
•No limits to
production
•Victory by
production,
exploitation
https://boardgamegeek.co
m/image/1078232/puerto-
rico

4. How to design
anticolonial games?

5. Problems
• Representation in production + content
• Voice and action in the game vs ventriloquism
• Visibility of peoples, exploitation
• Stereotype

6. Dynamics
• Increased debate within gaming
communities
• Rising public attention
• Organize:
http://www.gamesforchange.org/

7. • Play revolts,
pacificism,
separation
• (Archipelago)

8. • Play and
represent the
colonized
https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2027095/comancheria-
rise-and-fall-comanche-empire

9. • Play the
struggles
https://www.academygames.com/pages/freedom

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

12. https://boardgamegeek.com/image/2825217/nemos-war-second-edition

13. • Don’t represent
• (Five Tribes)
https://boardgamegeek.com/blogpost/40219/five-tribes-
revised-slaves-are-out-fakirs

14. • Make
complicity a
game
mechanic
https://web.archive.org/web/20090716183013/http://www.es
capistmagazine.com/articles/view/conferences/tgc_2009/6021
-TGC-2009-How-a-Board-Game-Can-Make-You-Cry

15. https://kesakivelstudios.org/road-to-racial-justice
• Thematize

16. • Thematize: adventure/decision game