Kennesaw State Launches First Video Game Through KSU Game Studio

Kennesaw State University published the video game Corporation, Inc. on Friday, marking the university’s first game distributed by the KSU Game Studio.

Assistant Professor of Game Narrative Victoria Lagrange designed the game to foster empathy for marginalized communities by creating a protagonist who recently emigrated from Colombia. Users are tasked with performing the character’s work duties while also having to navigate several forms of discrimination.

“The idea is to experience what it's like to be a recently emigrated woman who finds a job and who has a lot of pressure on them to make the right choices while experiencing discrimination,” Lagrange said. “What we're hoping is that when people play the game, they really experience that firsthand, and then it changes the way they perceive people around them. So, maybe then they will meet someone who immigrated, and they will think about this experience that they had while playing the game.”

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