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Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast

Being Black in The Games Industry w/ Xalavier Nelson

Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast

Kinda Funny

Video Games, Games, Leisure

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

It's interview time! Blessing sits down with indie dev extraordinaire Xalavier Nelson to chat about El Paso, Elsewhere, indie development, how to make a successful game, and Xalavier's empowering speech about being black in games. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - TOPIC OF THE SHOW: The Xalavier Nelson interview - Defender’s Quest 2: Mists of Ruin -AD - Diversity in the Video Gaming Industr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Tuesday, May 28th, 2024. I'm one of your host's blessing

0:14.5

Adioia Jr. joining me is Strange Scaffolds Zalavier Nelson Jr. Zolivir, welcome to the show.

0:21.6

Thanks so much for having me.

0:22.7

Yeah, thanks so much for coming through.

0:24.0

Of course, people would know you,

0:25.6

one from being a game showdown contestant

0:27.5

during the off season in our big six-person episode,

0:32.2

but then also you're one of the developers

0:33.9

of El Paso Elsewhere.

0:36.3

And you made tons of games in the last however many years in the industry?

0:40.3

14 years, if you include my time as a journalist, eight years as a deaf.

0:45.3

Which, I got many questions about that.

0:48.3

Because I've known of you for quite a few years now, based on what I know about you, mainly how long you've been working on games

0:54.2

in the industry and how many games you've worked on in the industry, I would have thought that

0:57.3

you were way older.

0:59.1

But I was talking- It's also the baldness.

1:01.1

Not everyone can have your hair.

1:02.7

I mean, listen, I appreciate it.

1:04.1

But also, there's a on how much I've heard about you, I was like, oh, yeah, is Oliver must have been in the industry forever.

1:11.5

And you have been, but you're also younger.

1:13.4

Like, if you don't mind me asking, how, like, what age did you start working in the

1:17.1

industry?

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