Indigenous people have created and collaborated on video games, such as John Romero,[1] co-designer of Doom, and Allen Turner,[2][3] who has worked as a designer on a wide range of titles including Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse.
[15] Indigenous people have been involved in a range of video game projects where they have the opportunity to depict themselves.
[53] Both of the video games made by kānaka maoli participants of the Skins Video Game workshops held in Hawai'i, He Ao Hou [2017] and Wao Kanaka: Realm of the People [2018], were designed so that the player can play in ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i as well as in English.
Adventure game Skábma - Snowfall was translated and voice-acted in endangered Norther Sámi language.
Obsidian's expansion for Fallout: New Vegas, Honest Hearts, features tribals living in Zion National Park who have developed a language that is a fusion of English, German, and Navajo.
Research of Indigenous video games, ranging from representations to design and development, are on the rise.