Fair Play

In Fair Play, players assume the role of Jamal, a young African American graduate student, on his journey to become a renowned professor. To succeed in the game, players must maintain a diverse academic social network while running a research lab. Over the course of the game, players will interact with a diversity of people from academia who can assist Jamal with the ultimate goal of becoming a renowned professor.

Fair Play is a game designed at the Morgridge Institute for Research funded by a grant from NIH to reduce implicit biases (i.e. unconscious assumptions that arise from group stereotypes) against underrepresented individuals in academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). The game is intended to be played by faculty in these fields on a web platform. By experiencing bias as Jamal, we hope our players will gain tacit knowledge (Gee, 2003), which when combined with various bias reduction strategies demonstrated in the game, will lead our players to incorporate their improved awareness and new skills into their daily lives.

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