Games can actively further the teachings of indigenous peoples, with great benefits for sustainability.
Incorporating Tradition
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Month: February 2022
When Rivers Were Trails
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Beth LaPensée reinterprets The Oregon Trail from the perspective of a displaced native man.
The Rise of World Games
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Games can honor the cultures of indigenous peoples across the world, and bring them to life in a new way.
Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna)
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Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is a cooperative platformer drawn from the folklore of Alaskan Native peoples, specifically the Iñupiat.
Celebrate Indigenous Wisdom
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Indigenous communities protect 90% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity, with long-standing practices that enrich climate action.
Survival Without Fossil Fuels
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Survival games can think seriously about which methods of power generations are available to the player, and how they’re portrayed.
Subnautica
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Renewable Worldbuilding
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Visions of a renewable future can come from the most unexpected games.
Knowing is Half the Battle
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Transformers: Earth War added a new mini-campaign to talk about renewable energy.
Transformers: Earth War
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Reclaiming History
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How can settler games avoid their colonial baggage and tell new stories about land and who owns it?
Before We Leave
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This game applies an anti-colonialist, environmental lens on the settler genre.
The Extinction Achievement
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Extinction mechanics, even when used ironically, are great at reminding players that no resource is limitless.
Red Dead Redemption
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Settle With Care
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What does a settler game that takes environmental consequences into account look like?
Origins of Lanayru Desert
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That time when Zelda offered an environmental parable.
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
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Making Friends on the Fury Road
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Signs of the Sojourner understands that community is a renewable resource.
Grief as a Game Mechanic
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Signs of the Sojourner has an environmental grief system that both breaks us down and ties us together.
The Tragedy of Galarian Corsola
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When coral bleaching came to Pokémon.
Pokémon Sword / Shield
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Signs of the Sojourner
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Meaning in a World of Ruin
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Game worlds can be “transapocalyptic” – places that have collapsed, yet they still exist and they are still worth fighting for.
Final Fantasy VI
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Braving the Lost Forest
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When Monument Valley 2 made us think like a tree.
Monument Valley 2
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Anthropomorphize Everything?
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Anything can engender empathy if you put enough human features on it – so when should you?
Botanicula
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Beyond Blue
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Save the Sperm Whales
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Beyond Blue has the player studying a specific pod of sperm whales and investigating sound pollution that disturbs their life.
Showcase a Climate Solution
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Normalize real-world climate solutions by incorporating them into your world lore, story, and/or game mechanics.
Reveal Costs of Extraction
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Challenge age-old gaming tropes to remind players that nothing lasts forever and that pillaging nature’s pantry has consequences!
Put Down Your Tools
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When your release day coincides with the world’s largest climate protest, what do you prioritize?
Untitled Goose Game
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Battlefield 2042
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The Threat Multiplier
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Games like Battlefield 2042 embody the risk of climate wars being fought in the near future. Or are they already here?
Acknowledge the Climate Emergency
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“The most important thing you can do for climate – talk about it”
Dr Katharine Hayhoe
Imagine a Sustainable Future
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Unlike dystopias featuring urban decay and corruption, solarpunk helps us imagine worlds where crises are solved with camaraderie and ingenuity.
Facilitate Grief for the World
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The climate crisis is a major existential threat that can be very overwhelming. Games and storytelling can help us process emotions into action.
Movement Building Games
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Meet the games that lay the foundation for a new genre of movement building.
Shinra: The Face of Colonialism
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Final Fantasy VII provided us with one of popular culture’s most devastating caricatures of capitalism, colonialism and greed.
Oil Ocean Zone
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Associating your villain with fossil fuel production has always been a classy move.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
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Deal: A Green New Election
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Dirty Politics
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Based on real events, Deal: A Green New Election puts players on a collision course with the frustrations of fossil fuel money in US politics
Oiligarchy
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Oiligarchy casts the player as an oil executive tasked with growing their business at any cost.
Calling Out Fossil Fuel Corruption
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In the world of Oiligarchy, addiction is the goal.