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rachelhelps's review
5.0
This is a book with experiences of people of color, LGBTQA, and non-binary people in the videogames industry. I loved getting a different perspective on videogames and I found most of the stories inspiring. The first essay, "Fight-free Fashion Agency" was one of my favorites, and encouraged me to think of more ways games can exist without having battles as their main play mechanic. I also really liked "Firmly Rooted and Ain't Goin' Nowhere: Freelancing While WOC." I haven't read very many essays from freelance videogame writers, let alone feelance WOC videogame writers, and it gave me hope that sometime in the future I could try my hand at writing for videogames from home."The Prevailing Need to Push for Protagonists of Color" helped me realize how few black and hispanic videogame protagonists there are (even though black and hispanic children "play games at the highest rates of all children").
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