Impact type: System Knowledge

SimCityEDU: Pollution Challenge

Games

Gameplay

A modified version of SimCity designed to teach systems thinking.

Transactive Learning & Transformational Play

Design Theories

Gameplay, Narratives

When player action significantly impacts the game world in ways that are visible and persistent, it can boost emotional engagement and sense of self-efficacy.

Celebrate Indigenous Wisdom

Goals

Creative Commons Mandatory Credit: CGIAR Research Programme / Photographer name: CGIAR Research Programme

Indigenous communities protect 90% of the planet’s remaining biodiversity, with long-standing practices that enrich climate action.

Showcase a Climate Solution

Goals

Aesthetics, Community Management, Gameplay, Narratives

Creative Commons Mandatory Credit: Ashden / Ashden Photographer name: Ashden

Normalize real-world climate solutions by incorporating them into your world lore, story, and/or game mechanics.

Reveal Costs of Extraction

Goals

Photographer name: Dru Oja Jay - Creative Commons

Challenge age-old gaming tropes to remind players that nothing lasts forever and that pillaging nature’s pantry has consequences!

Acknowledge the Climate Emergency

Goals

Creative Commons Mandatory Credit: Bill Huntington / Master Sgt.

“The most important thing you can do for climate – talk about it”
Dr Katharine Hayhoe

Erode Social License

Goals

Aesthetics, Gameplay, Narratives

Photographer: Raimond Spekking Creative Commons

Call out the corruption, deceit and propaganda of polluting industries, real or fictional, and help ruin their hard-won prestige in the real world!