Our analysis of diversity in gaming had shown a real lack of gender diversity within video game characters.

A follow-up to this looked at female representation in 2022’s games and showed that gender diversity has been improving.

However, our original study had also highlighted a large disparity in the ethnicity of video game characters.

Something that is desperately needed, in my opinion, is more ethnically diverse main characters. How many non-white main characters in video games can you name?

So, we decided to repeat our previous design experiment; this time, we’ve reimagined how video games could have looked with more ethnically diverse characters.