The card-based RPG Android: Netrunner became a rare model of inclusion and diversity in gaming before going out of print in 2018. Now a group of fans who treasured those principles are bringing it back. (From 2021)
Zoë Robinson was the art director for Fantasy Flight across many product lines at that time. In the mid-aughts, she loved having a call with George R. R. Martin every Tuesday to go over the next set of Game of Thrones card designs, but working with licensers always meant playing by their rules. Since Android came from within the company, the team had more freedom to create.
Fantasy Flight’s team made a good number of changes to the game they inherited from Wizards of the Coast, such as replacing random card packs with fixed expansions. But perhaps the biggest change was the addition of a card representing you, the player. In Trev’s experience, games that demonstrate consideration for diversity and inclusion get that way because of a few people on the inside who fought for it. "Real inclusion is very hard work,” they say. “You can’t just be like, let’s get some brown people in here. It doesn’t work that way.”
Damon Stone was the only person of color on the team but never had to fight the predominantly white male group over representation. In an email, he said, “The team talked extensively about our disappointment within the games industry and genre fiction, especially science fiction, about the erasure of people who were not cis heterosexual white men.”
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