Putting Identity to Ethnicity; Dark-skinned Heroes and Villains in Gaming

Julian Woodyard
18 min readJun 19, 2019

What makes a good character stand out? The struggle of their character as they ascend from the bottom of the barrel to the top of the leaderboards in character development? The development of what kind of character they’ll be throughout the story? While all of these factors, and plenty more, attribute to the development and construction of a character, there has always been a unique connection — a fine line — that’s crossed or maintained when ethnicity is calculated into a character’s bio.

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Julian Woodyard

A creative writer that focuses on gaming articles, narrative designing, and everything else in-between. https://roundaboutj.blog/