Glow Up Games on bringing Black stories to games and why AI doesn’t recognize rap

Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Glow Up Games is one of the first all-women-of-color companies to have raised over $1.5 million in funding. This was revealed by co-founder Dr. Mitu Khandaker on stage at DICE 2024 during the studio’s keynote, where she explained that the five years since the studio’s establishment has been a multifaceted learning lesson for development and creative intention. “We love games and were realizing that as we grew up and really wanted to see ourselves, and that games did not really love us back,” Khandaker said. “We love games and were realizing that as we grew up and really wanted to see ourselves, and that games did not really love us back”Dr. Mitu Khandaker Over the years in their respective careers, both Khandaker and fellow co-founder Latoya Paterson examined gaming’s lack of diversity and inclusion for brown girls and women. This provided the foundation of Glow Up Games. Khandaker explained, “We started Glow Up to answer our provocation. Tell our own stories and see ourselves to create the kind of representation we want to see in games. Not only for what’s on the screen but...