Fictional games with Brittney Morris

Brittney Morris is a writer of novels and video games. Her debut novel Slay (2019) is about a fictional online multiplayer game of the same name, designed by a teenager called Kiera as a secret safe space for her and other Black players.

In the novel, Kiera faces a crisis when the rest of the world finds out about her game, but this conversation doesn’t spoil what happens next. Instead, Brittney tells Jordan how she designed her fictional game, and what it was like to go on to write for real-world video games like Subnautica: Below Zero.

Brittney mentions the novel Warcross by Marie Lu, the film Black Panther, and the television series Code Lyoko.

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