Achieving victory conditions would have to be balanced against the natural limits of the planet. Imagine if the next Civilization did just that. Entries included a deck-building card game in which resources from a small ecosystem must be carefully managed, and a simple arcade game starring a time-travelling polar bear that uses Pong-like mechanics to explain albedo feedbacks. And earlier this summer a group of scientists from Wales hosted an online climate jam with entries judged in part based on their scientific accuracy, as determined by a panel of climate scientists. The Games for Change nonprofit hosts such jams regularly.

Game jams are a great way to rapidly generate and prototype lots of ideas to discover what works and what doesn’t. Often these are developed as part of game jams where people come together, in person or online, to create games based on a theme in a set time. Over the past few years hundreds of other climate-themed games have been released. Players can plant new trees to offset their negative impacts and even purchase “carbon offsets” which create tree-planting bounties that encourage others to do the same. Now player actions like cutting down trees and smelting ore will increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and ultimately raise the global temperature, resulting in sea level rise, less snow and ice, forest fires, and more. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.Ī recent Minecraft mod adds climate change to the wildly popular sandbox game.

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