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Have you spotted the Killmonger dreads? They're everywhere these days. What started in Marvel's Black Panther film is n…
For A Long Journey..., Coats and his team created a diversity matrix to flip norms on their head, ensuring all NPCs in the game represent a spectrum of non-white, non-male, non-heterosexual, non-cisgendered people. "In terms of the future, allowing players to play online together brings with it the need to prevent people from being hurt by others' creations, so options such as hiding custom characters or replacing them with defaults would be a good way forward," he tells me. The Sims 4 content creator and Twitch ambassador Danielle Udogaranya (aka Ebonix), who pointed out the Killmonger dreads to me, is celebrated in the game's community for her authentic Black hairstyles and outfits, which are publicly available for all to use.
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