Video game designer Justin Moore believes that African Americans are underrepresented in his industry. He touched on this topic and others in a candid interview.
"What's more remarkable to me," Moore says. "Is how underrepresented [blacks] are in places where employees will potentially have a large impact on the creative control of a game, and that's where I think the importance is."
Moore, 25, studied video game development at Chicago's Flashpoint Academy and has a mechanical engineering degree from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He's a founding member and Vice-President at Metamoorephosis, an independent game development studio in Chicago.
Moore says a lack of African Americans influencing creative decisions at game development companies is visible in the many token characterizations of black video game characters and through the scarcity of black antagonists.
"In understanding that games are a medium like television and radio and literature, if African American's aren't present on the creative side of this medium, the medium is due to be skewed against them," says Moore.
He encouraged aspiring black video game developers to---pun intended---get in the game.
"Don't give up," Moore says. "If what you really want to do is game development, it's not going to be easy. Work hard. Never lose sight of your goals."
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