Safe in Our World sees a brand new initiative from Dove and the open source afro hair library to create ‘Code my Crown’ – a guide to the creation and celebration of Black hair textures and protective styles in video games. The guide offers instructions, personal insights, detailed references and full open-source code, created by people within the Black community, for anyone to use to create characters in the digital world.
This blog is being signposted by WorkWise for Screen.
The video games community has the power to create alternative realities whilst letting players feel seen and represented, but often options for Black hair are slim, with just 7% of hairstyles in the 4 top games in August 2023 offering textured or protective styles.