Roleplayers of Color

latina-nerds-unite:

jayveesto:

Remember Me concept art

While Nilin is not a Latin@ herself, I find it very refreshing to see a WOC be the main protagonist in a video game as it brings a lot more visibility and inclusion within the gaming industry and communities that are all white, cismale dominated. 

“Remember Me” comes out in June. 

Below is the trailer interested in learning more about the game. 

http://youtu.be/utQNNlN0dTg

Followers, please reblog with your own opinions. Thanks! 

ombrophilia:

Remember Me, coming May 2013 from Capcom and Dontnod Entertainment, is a third-person video game starring Nilin, a mixed-race lady, in dystopian Neo-Paris in 2084. Nilin had her memories wiped by her former employer, but will use her skills as a memory hunter to alter her enemies’ memories and restore her own. Exploration and platforming are major parts of the game, so expect Mirror’s Edge-style parkour without Mirror’s Edge’s major failing: Spontaneous gun battles. Combat in the game is entirely hand-to-hand, with no guns, blood, or killing. Instead, players create combos on the fly in the Combo Lab (which touts over 50,000 different combos according to Capcom) and rely on on-screen displays to see how effective they are against an enemy. If you’re not super psyched for this game yet, let me give you a quote from the co-founder of Dontnod:

CVG: Remember Me’s lead character is a mixed-race female, which stands out against the crowd of white male heroes. There’s a sense that publishers attach risk to anything other than white male leads. At any stage in development, did you feel you needed to change the lead character’s appearance?

Jean-Maxime Moris: No, we wanted Nilin to stand out. I think these sort of issues become self-fulfilling prophesies; people saying that only white males sell so then everyone only does white males. If you start believing these things you get your head inside this cold marketing strategy that you cannot get your head around. It becomes a pretty fucking racist and misogynistic way of thinking about lead characters.

To summarize: Remember Me is a third-party cyberpunk dystopian parkour platformer starring a non-sexualized non-white lady who knows 50,000 ways to knock somebody out. Coming May 2013 to PC, XBox 360, and PS3.

Additional reading: How stupid is this industry to only bet on stereotypes?, CVG, Nov 4 2012

(via nerdyninjanicole)

damnlayoffthebleach:

fairytaleacademy:

Name: Kida Nedakh [TAKEN]

Clique: Adventurers 

Age: 18

FC: Hayden Panettire

Bio: Often described as a warrior princess due to Kida’s very skilled hand to hand combat and strength this is a girl you don’t want to mess with, trust me ask her ex-boyfriends. Kida is very curious soul and is interested in anything historic and old especially about Atlantis’s past, some might say she’s borderline obsessed. Which is why she can be often found in the library or unsurprisingly by the pool due to her love of water. It’s unsurprising that she’s sencond in her class at history and an A* student, second to Milo Thatch that is. Kida’s decedents are that of the people from the lost city of Atlantis or so her grandmother has said, since hearing this at a young age Kida has been determined to find out as much as she can about the mystical lost city and why exactly it sunk to the sea all those years ago, that is if it even exists. Quite a lone wolf at school Kida enjoys reading, swimming and discovering new places however she does have quite allot of friends and is very social at times but prefers to be in a tight nit group of the adventurers. It’s obvious Kida  has allot of love for her family in particular her father who has practically raised her alone after the mysterious disappearance of her mother when Kida was just a child. Secretly Kida suspects it has something to do with her heritage although never admits it to anyone but herself from fear of sounding crazy. Later on at her time at WWH Kida meets Milo a very curious soul similar to hers but much less adventurous a bit of a nerd but sweet. Kida can’t help but feel something for him but is not afraid to express her curiosity about him, often asking inappropriate questions and not realizing when she’s taken something to far and is being to forward even though Milo doesn’t seem to mind. The two seem to be getting quite close but Kida doesn’t really know if she wants a relationship right now whilst concentrating on school and other activities…however she’s never shut off to the idea of love and longs for a love like her parents had before her mother was taken. A master debater Kida can seem quite forceful, violent, and aggressive at times but anyone will tell you she has a kind heart, and a general respect for all people and creatures not matter what wrong they have done. Lately Kida has been discovering something strange about herself, she seems to have a weird connection to water and it to her, like witchcraft. The whole thing freaks her out a little bit but Kida can’t help but experiment with it however dangerous it might be, often giving her nose bleeds and giving other students involved strange marks on their bodies and nightmares depending on proximity. Maybe this is what she’s been looking for, will Kida unlock the key to her mothers vanishing or perhaps meet the same sticky end her mother did all those years ago. 

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damnlayoffthebleach:

This is a faceclaim for Cassandra Cain, the second Batgirl in the DC comics verse. Cass is mixed race (half white, half east Asian [google said her mother was from northeastern China]).

It was found on this facebook account. 

Cass looks like this in the comics: 

Not Ellen Page. 

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