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After their commitment for a change, pledged following the rise of the anti-racist movement #blacklivesmatter, Niantic has undertaken actions aimed at "supporting our Black and underrepresented minority employees, empowering all employees to combat systemic racism and social injustice, and creating powerful, scalable impact through the culture, ideas, and role models we help to create."

As one of the multiple results of this effort, Niantic has created the Black Developers Initiative program (BDI), providing access, opportunity, resources, and mentorship to Black game and AR developers.

"The BDI mission is to fund new projects from Black game development teams - ranging in size from newer, indie teams to larger, veteran studios - for the purpose of building game prototypes that can live on the Niantic platform. Selected BDI teams will be provided with funding for five months of development, executive mentorship, and development support from members of the Niantic team. They will also join a growing community of peers and program alumni who they can continue to build relationships with beyond the duration of the program. At the end of the five months, development teams will have created a playable prototype and a pitch deck for a real-world augmented reality game."

In the article, John Hanke stated that Niantic has already signed a Black and Women-led game development studio, W!CKED SAiNTS Studio, and shared a youtube video which presents the new entry in the Niantic world and explains the partnership between the two. It is visible at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVENAoYD83U!

Source: https://nianticlabs.com/blog/black-developers-initiative/?hl=en

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