12 Rami Ismail & Muslim Representation
Wide Eyed Christianity
English - November 25, 2016 19:07 - 51 minutes - 76.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsChristianity Religion & Spirituality Society & Culture Philosophy christian christianity church deconstruction faith philosophy religion theology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With Thanksgiving holiday schedules taking people away from the office, this week’s episode is a special feature from Ben's personal project, the TheoNerd Podcast. It is a conversation with independent video game developer Rami Ismail, who is also a Muslim and speaks very intelligently about representations of Muslims in video games and our culture at large. It is a great and timely companion piece to last week’s conversation with Dick Simon about knowing others who are treated as “them.”
More episodes of the TheoNerd Podcast can be found here.
This conversation grew out of two panels at the Game Developer's Conference. Rami spoke about language and inclusion and was on a panel about the state of Muslim representation in games.
His game company is Vlambeer, and he is active on Twitter.
A few games were mentioned on the show:
Thank you to Rob Mathes for letting us use his song "Wake up Wide-Eyed" off the album Wheelbarrow for our intro this week. Find more of his work and buy his music on his website.
Bright Primate provides the intro and outro music for TheoNerd. You can find them at http://brightprimate.tk