BNP at Game Devs of Color: Thoughts From the Devs

During the recent Game Devs of Color Expo, Black Nerd Problems had the opportunity to talk with several developers behind some of the great games on the show floor. We picked their brains about what makes a show dedicated to such a diverse crowd of gamers so important. Here’s what they had to say, edited for length. Let’s get some thoughts from the devs.

Khalil Abdullah of Decoy Games To be honest, we’ve done PAX and stuff before, and we’ve almost always been the only black developers there. We didn’t even know that something like this existed. So we decided, yeah let’s do it. This has been awesome. To be able to be like “This is a conference for you.” I mean, this is a pretty awesome thing to have. This has been [great], so far, I’ve only been three hours and it’s already exceeded my expectations. Really good crowd and stuff too. It might not be the image of game developers but like every race and color play games, without fail. Even if you are not developing, they are interested in the games. I always feel like if you play games, there is a 30-40% chance that you are interested in making them too. The connection is there. I think the idea is really good. We plan on coming back here pretty much every year that we have something to show. – Khalil Abdullah, Decoy Games / Swimsanity Nivetha Kannan of Red Lime Games I was here last year because one of my friends invited me to the show with her, and I kind of liked it just because it’s the only kind of game dev community that, y…