CODED BLACK

A game about a complicated, contradictory and horrific conceptt

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Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a dark movie theatre.

Coded Black is a walking simulator game which teaches the long, horrible, contradictory, and illogical history of anti-Blackness and its nightmarish consequences in the US and UK. Brace yourself for an experience unlike any other game.

Download Game

PC only, recommend for use on a machine with a graphics card of at least GTX 1070 (2016) or newer.

Download and unzip the demo file, then run the application called Game_Setup. You may get a warning about opening an app from an unknown publisher, click 'Run anyway'.

Trailer

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"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it"

Zora Neale Hurston

Game Resources

The bulk of the game content is pulled from historical sources and scholars; only the secondary and primary character narratives are "inventions" and even these are solidly based in theory and historical narratives. In this section you will find links to the bibliographic information for all of the sources in the game as well as references to other historical and secondary texts relevant to the project.

Group of Black people filling the streets, with a Black woman wearing a backpack.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a plantation house at sunset with narrative text: Folks say she poison her husbands.

Further Resources

Discover more historical and scholarly materials to enhance your learning experience. We couldn't include everything, but this is a good start

Bibliography

Access comprehensive bibliographic information for all assets used in our educational game.

ABOUT

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a school hallway and an open door looking into a classroom.

Coded Black gameplay screenshot showing a glowing figure on a chair and a glowing family sat in a kitchen in the background.

The Creators

The Game