This indie game offers a counterpoint to the Google manifesto

Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer who’s worked on blockbuster titles like Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Subway Surfers. She also makes small, intensely personal games about her own experiences. Her most recent one, 8 Vignettes from the Tech Industry, tackles the Google manifesto, an anti-diversity memo that went viral over the last few days. It’s a free-to-play browser game on indie platform itch.io.

“My first idea was to do a noninteractive essay, but even though I write a lot of essays, games are my first and favorite medium,” said Sampat in an email. “I wanted to guide the player through my gut reactions as I read the manifesto, and demonstrating that I wasn’t too evolutionarily preoccupied with being neurotic or having babies to do a little JavaScript was a nice bonus.”