For Black gamers, customizing avatars in video games is an, uh… interesting process.
There are often limited styles or simply none at all to create accurate Black characters.
And yet this challenge, she says, was her favorite part of the process.
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The four family members are premade characters that exist in the game.
Her husband, Christopher, had the short coily haircut.
(The baby Orion Michaelson was not wearing one of the new styles.)
The Michaelson family
It took a year to develop these hairstyles with the collaboration starting in February 2022.
Redway swears that the hardest part was choosing which five styles would make the cut.
“I wish I could’ve brought 15 different styles to make everyone feel seen.
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But I think this is a beautiful place that we landed.”
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