Black in Gaming Foundation
Industry Spotlight Award Honoree, Black in Gaming Foundation, (2025)
The Black in Gaming Foundation is a community dedicated to cultivating, supporting, and promoting Black professionals in the game industry.
Strong Museum of Play
Women in Games, Strong Museum of Play – Keynote Speaker (2022)
Inductee into the Women in Games, Strong Museum of Play Archive (2022)
Clear as Mud, guest
Clear as Mud Podcast (Podcast Guest)
Sydney Adams was Creative Lead on The Black Is Magic- Magic The Gathering release and is now a Senior Designer at Intercept Games. She tells us her thoughts on storytelling, nostalgia, working in the industry and what she hopes to accomplish to compliment and continue an already amazing career.
code academy
“Cool Job: I’m A Game Designer For “Kerbal Space Program 2” article
Game Developers of Color
“Creating Socially Conscious Games,” 2021 Game Developers of Color Expo Speaker
how black is magic is transforming one teacher’s game club
wbur, npr here & now
“Magic the Gathering Explores Black Life in New Black Is Magic Card Set
Dragon Talk – An Official Dungeons & Dragons Podcast
Greg and Shelly kick things off with D&D news. The two talk D&D Celebration, the official D&D Discord Channel, The Wild Beyond the Witchlight and much, much more! Afterwards, we welcome D&D Game Designer Sydney Adams to the show for a new edition of Insight Check. Our special interview this week is with long time friend of the show, New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore!
Creating Basri Ket, article
For Core Set 2021 (M21), we developed Basri Ket to bring a fresh face to the Core Set. I have gathered Senior Narrative Designer Gerritt Turner, Senior Art Director Daniel Ketchum, and Game Designer Sydney Adams to answer some questions about the process of bringing Basri into being.
Sydney Adams 