PROJECT NEW LEAF

Gerardo Hernandez & Cassandra Slack

CST 401 Capstone
Cal State Monterey Bay | School of Computing & Design
Game Design Capstone Project
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
COMMUNITY
Communities lack mindfulness
and positive media to extend
their understanding of outside
experiences and perspectives.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
Within American society
there is a pattern of
disregarding one’s own
privilege and failing to
acknowledging the
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challenges and struggles of
underrepresented identities.
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
Marginalized individuals experience
1 greater disadvantages and lack
social acceptance through little
acknowledgment of their own
identities
3 GAME INDUSTRY
There is a strong lack of
representation of identities
present in game storytelling.
Game-products cater to a
certain demographic.
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PRJ NEW LEAF
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WHAT WE LEARNED
PROJECT NEW LEAF
Gerardo Hernandez & Cassandra Slack
CST 401 Capstone
Cal State Monterey Bay | School of Computing & Design
Game Design Capstone Project

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