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Want to learn how games can help solve the climate crisis? At #GDC2024, Shayne Hayes spoke with Trevin York about our new research report. The report explores how game teams and climate experts can work together to create informative, engaging games—and how these games can leave players with the skills they need to advance climate resilience in their communities. "Games are already a great part of climate action all around the world, so what we really wanted to do is listen and learn from the climate game teams that are doing this work," explains Trevin. With his team of researchers, Trevin York, Catherine-Ann McNamara-Peach, and Ariadne Myrivili spoke with 15 game teams from 9 different countries to understand the challenges they faced and the strategies they used to navigate them. Check out the report to learn how teams worldwide are beginning to create climate games and how we can advance this critical and urgent work. https://bit.ly/3VmA4SH

Results from a recent Yale Program on Climate Change Communication study suggest that video game players are a valuable audience for climate change communications, challenging the stereotype of gamers as disengaged or antisocial. More here: https://lnkd.in/eQpnGHe8 Video games present a unique opportunity to raise awareness and motivate action on climate change. Choose a game from our list of 19 climate games that could save the future for your next interactive experience 👾🌍 https://lnkd.in/eYU_bmWT

Fawn Sharp on climate-related projects: "When you look at things like tribal gaming and the ability that tribes have been able to advance being leading employers in their county, in their states, an economic force, the scale of the growth that's in front of us is like tribal gaming on steroids." https://lnkd.in/gFt-QBuC

♻🕹 Join the green gaming revolution! 🕹 ♻ Playing for the Planet is an Alliance that supports the video games industry to take action to reduce its environmental impact. In joining the Alliance, gaming studios and trade associations have made specific and measurable commitments ranging from reducing carbon emissions, integrating green activations in games, and supporting the global environmental agenda. 🌍 🐝 🐞 🌻 🌳 🌍 The initiative is facilitated with the support of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) 🌐 and led by the games industry 🎮 . Together we focus on meeting individual and collective objectives and sharing those stories with the world. 🗺 Playing for the Planet aims to address some of the world's biggest environmental challenges through creativity and technology. ♻🕹 Join the green gaming revolution! 🕹 ♻ #gaming #treeplanting #computergames #playingfortheplanet #greengaming

Play at the intersection of climate and gaming! Using #boardgames to promote imaginative approaches to #problemsolving in climate is an interesting idea. These games instil a sense of #empowerment in players, demonstrating that their actions can bring about significant change, particularly when collaborating with others. Furthermore, it encourages open communication, as players engage in a shared experience that invites discussion, debate, and valuable learning opportunities. We would love to get our hands on some of them to play with our team. Societal Thinking's Climate team: Shubha Narayanan | Vyjayanthi Mala (VJ) Sam Illingworth https://lnkd.in/g8FDt2b8 #climateaction #agency #collaboration #climatechange

At PlanetPlay we never just play around, so as part of Earth Month in April we not only launched a major new initiative, Make Green Tuesday Moves, but I also joined Jude Ower MBE and a group of like-minded games industry folks for an important meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York. We were there for the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) Climate Promise event, with support from Secretary-General António Guterres, the Climate Promise aims to support countries to up their game on the fight against climate change before 2025. It’s about keeping things cool (literally) and staying below the 1.5-degree warming limit set in the Paris Agreement. So, how can games help? That's exactly what we discussed at a special roundtable with the UNDP, facilitated by myself and Jude, plus Mathias Gredal Nørvig, who led the conversation from a studio perspective, and UNDP Global Director of Climate Change Cassie Flynn. We had some amazing folks join us, including representatives from Bolton University, The Danish Trade Council, JSA, Riot Games, Tilting Point, The Raine Group, Unity and Xbox Game Studios Publishing. The conversation was electric. We talked about the challenges developing countries face with climate change, the importance of young generation getting involved, and how games can be a force for good. Imagine millions of gamers getting fired up about protecting the planet through in-game events, surveys, and stories that inspire action. SYBO is already a champion for this. Recently, they teamed up with ourselves and music star J Balvin to raise awareness and funds for climate action through their game Subway Surfers. The campaign illustrated just how powerful our industry and players can be when we all come together for a common cause - Talk about a real-world impact! And speaking of impact, at PlanetPlay we’ve just launched our own ‘Make Green Tuesday Moves’ initiative, which is all about empowering studios, publishers, and gamers to make a difference. We're serious about climate change, and we know you are too. For those who didn't make it we wish you were there, but meetings like the one we had at the UNDP are just the beginning. Together, the games industry can be a powerful force for good. Let's rally our communities and make a real change for our planet 🌍

Video Games Europe is proud to be a member of the Playing 4 The Planet Alliance, which has released its 2023 Annual Impact Report today! The report includes: ✅ A measure of progress towards #Playing4thePlanet’s strategic goals. ✅ Updates on focus areas, such as decarbonisation, The Green Game Jam, and more. ✅ A review of members’ commitments towards sustainability. While more can still be done, we’re energized by the collective action our industry is taking to reduce its carbon footprint and more! Find out more in the report: https://lnkd.in/e5WU3qSx More information on Video Games Europe's climate commitment: https://bit.ly/VGEClimate #VideoGames #VideoGamesEU #P4PAlliance

Can games be more than just fun around a paper board? Casey Crownhart has a nice article out, in MIT Technology Review, about a couple climate-themed board games. I find that Life follows an interesting rhythm...I just started a new book by Kelly Clancy called 'Playing with reality' which is about...games. But these talented writers are doing more than just talking about games. They're highlighting--maybe, introducing if you're not a game player--the idea that #games can help us think strategically about real life. Well designed games, that is. I only flippantly suggest to my wife that Fallout 4 is training for the #nuclearapocalypse. Civilization and the Sims franchise (and the myriad variants of those two) have historically been popular games, but I always found it difficult to take key learnings from the games. Expanding on something Casey said, the simulation games that have a winner obfuscate the truth that winning via destructive means isn't really winning at all. On a personal note: I started designing a #strategy card game when I was teaching in China. The idea was to combine #science, #history, #politics and #business into a game similar to Civilization+Magic: The Gathering. Maybe one of these days I'll make a #Kickstarter to fund my idea...

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This month, discover how political and social environments, both in game and out of game, affect climate gaming during our three-day, online Gaming Climate Change Course. https://loom.ly/yf6_yGI