Privilege as Game Difficulty
Background
Halo Skulls as a Model for Intersectionality
Application on Future Games
100

Who wrote "The Other Difficulty Mode"

Samantha Allen

100

Who wrote the paper that talks about intersectionality?

Kimberle Crenshaw

100

What does Halo use to modify the difficulty of the game?

Skulls.

100

Allen imagines games that could blend the complexity of systems like in the game ______

Halo

200

Who says "being a straight white man is the same as playing life on the easiest difficulty mode"?

John Sclazi

200

Intersectionality was originally used to describe intersection of _____ and ____.

racism and patriarchy

200

Activating multiple skulls at once mimics ______.

Intersectionality

200

Samantha Allen questions whether adding too much _____ inside of a game may be too intense for players.

Realism

300

Why is using Game Difficulty as a metaphor for this topic flawed?

It's too linear and does not account for intersectionality.

300

When did Black feminist theorists put out theories of “intersectionality”.

1980-90

300

Who suggests that turning on all “skulls” in Halo is like experiencing multiple forms of oppression simultaneously?

Samantha Allen