Coding Clementines: Black Girls Make Games, Too

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Coding Clementines: Black Girls Make Games, Too

Added: 25.02.2014 3:15 | 7 views | 0 comments

Jordan Minor: Remember how proud Lee was after teaching Clementine how to successfully shoot her first zombie in the head in Telltale's The Walking Dead? That's how I felt after teaching a young girl how to successfully program her first video game. Like Clementine and Lee, the girl and I are both African-Americans dealing with an industry where people who look like us don't get the most representation. So, when given the opportunity to teach game design at a summer camp predominately for Black children, it was the chance for me to make sure their video game future wasn't a zombie apocalypse. They'd be entering a potentially harsh and discouraging world, but at least they'd be ready.