ForbesUnder30 Meet The Gamers, Developers And Founders Pushing For A More Inclusive Games Industry
Kris Lamberson
never expected to find a career playing video games. But after an injury derailed a burgeoning college basketball career, he found a new passion and has grown to become one of the most popular Black streamers on live-streaming platform Twitch, boasting 1.9 million followers. His“You don’t have to be just an athlete or rapper,” he says. “Gaming is an actual career path that you can choose if you want to.
The streaming landscape could use more stars like Lamberson. Data published in 2018 by StreamElements showed 81.5% of Twitch streamers were white males, and women accounted for only 15.6%. It also for under-represented groups, with 27% of respondents observing gender or racial bullying on the platform. , a writer at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio, has come to define the term multi-hyphenate: She’s built a large YouTube following of more than half a million subscribers with videos centered around social issues in the gaming industry—all while running the annual Video Game Accessibility Awards honoring games and studios that did the most to make their games available to all types of players.
“We're slowly making progress in promoting under-represented groups in games, and the conversation is louder and more accepted than ever before.”There’s also progress being made elsewhere in the industry. According to afrom the International Game Developers Association, there have been increases in the number of developers who identify as female or non-binary and come from under-represented groups since 2019.
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