Feb 8, 2021
Founder and CEO of Anthropos Games,
Calvin Johns, PhD (http://anthroposgames.com/) joins
us to discuss how role playing and even video games are coming to
grips with mindsets they’re inadvertently (or advertently)
creating. He gets into age old tribal tendencies that are baked in
and the realizations that many game creators are learning to deal
with. As we have seen, some words make murder easy... Owner and
lead designer Calvin Johns holds a PhD in Anthropology from the
University of Texas at Austin, where he studied alternate reality
games and other large-scale forms of play. The referenced Wired
article, including Johns’ game Early Dark, is here to review.
https://www.wired.com/story/dandd-must-grapple-with-the-racism-in-fantasy/
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