Derrick Fields aka Waking Oni is a Game Designer and Illustrator creating works at the intersection of African American and Japanese culture. Waking Oni is currently the lead content developer for Onsen Master.

Onsen Master is a single-player where the player must revitalize various onsen across the fantasy island of Izajima! Create ingredients to match the various customer ailments, reconnect the communities that surround the onsen and discover the supernatural world that they've long since been disconnected from. Onsen Master will be available on PC and Mac later this year!

Kishonna Gray is an Assistant Professor in Communication and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Gray’s work’s broadly intersects identity and digital media with a particular focus on video games and gaming culture. Her soon-to-be-released book, Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability.

Philip Mallory Jones has worked with video, audio, film, photography, and writing for artistic, commercial, and scholarly endeavors since 1969, and has incorporated digital media since 1990.

Dateline: Bronzeville, originally conceived as a series of video games, grew out of development of Bronzeville Etudes & Riffs in Second Life and Unity 3D. Tell stories of The Black Metropolis through a mystery story set in that time and place. Characters and narrative intrigues have also been transposed, by Donald Brooks Jones, to novel form, and blended with renders of 3D scenes from game development, to become the print and e-book versions. Works by Jones are available for purchase here.

TJ Hughes aka Terrifying Jellyfish is a game designer and digital artist from St. Louis Missouri. Nour has been exhibited at Bit Bash Chicago and the Computerspielmuseum, Berlin. Nour, short for “nourishment,” is a game about playing with your food. Its vibrant color swatches and delectable dishes make one’s mouth water.

Cukia "Sugar" Kimani is a creative engineer with computer science and digital art degrees. Cukia currently works as a freelance engineer and producer but is always noodling around with a variety of prototypes.

Boxer, by Cukia Kimani and Ben Crooks, is a top down boxing game played using only the analogue sticks—and without all that boring 'moving' stuff in the way. Boxer strips out all the boredom of boxing and gives you what you really wanted to see in any boxing match: juicy punches to the face. No hugs, no running—just boxing.

Dain Saint has been creating music from a young age and continues to create music to this day. Saint enjoys using audio, sound effects, and music to make digital experiences truly special.

In 2008, Cipher Prime was created by Dain Saint and William Stallwood. Cipher Games is one of Philly's premier indie game studios making creating a variety of games from puzzle games to rhythm games illuminated with the studio's signature stylings of color, light, and music. Their newest game, Lineweight, is still in development, and you can sign up for updates via their mailing list at cipherprime.com/games/lineweight. They also suggest donating to Philly Game Mechanics, a charitable organization focused on supporting game development and indie game enthusiasts.

Mark Blanchard’s work manifests in photography, video, cinemagraphs, sound and virtual reality. He explores identity within the framework of considering the misrepresentations applied to persons of color propagandized through mainstream media within the United States.

Unyimeabasi Udoh is an artist, graphic designer, and co-founder of Plates: An Experimental Journal of Art and Culture. Udoh works across various media—including textiles, prints, artist’s books, and computer games—in an attempt to bring to light and make peace with an idea of the void. Their practice centers on surface and absence, text as image, redaction, redundancy, and blackness as color and construct.