Windrush Tales, from a small team of mostly black British Caribbean creatives, is the world's first video game based on the lives and experiences of those who came to Britain to help rebuild after the Second World War.
The daughter of a Caribbean father, who arrived in the UK from Grenada in the 1950s, and a white Scottish mother, Ramanan's team initially conceived Windrush Tales as a celebration of multiculturalism, looking at the positive impact of Caribbean culture on 21st century Britain.
Its two characters are both black and from the Caribbean. One an aspiring nurse, Rose, the other her older brother, Vernon. Apprehensive but tenacious, Rose follows her sibling to England and plans to start work as a nurse in the newly formed NHS. But the celebratory focus of Windrush Tales shifted when, with pre-production barely under way, news broke of a scandal that shook the team's faith to its core.
"My grandad was a hard worker, but sometimes it was difficult to find work," Brotherson says."Sometimes if he got a promotion, his white co-workers would be antagonistic towards him.
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