“Spoiler to the end of this: Niantic can’t do this alone. The industry needs your help.” Niantic began the Black Developers Initiative (BDI) during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protest, with the intention to empower Black game and AR developers and creators, and is currently supporting five studios. It was also funded because the IDGA found in 2019 that only two per cent of devel…
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