Cooperative game – Green Media Mediography test

Wolfspell

In the tabletop role-playing game Wolfspell, players embody humans that have been transformed into wolves. During the campaign, they will balance their wolve and human personalities, embedded in two dices that are used during the game: the blood die, representing the human thought (which includes the will to take risks) and the wolf die, representing

Pokémon Go: Sustainability Week

Pokémon Go is an AR game for mobile devices, where players catch Pokémon by travelling through the real world. The developer Niantic organises an annual Sustainability Week to promote local non-profits and sustainability efforts.

Dawn of the Peacemakers

From the Kickstarter page: “Dawn of Peacemakers is the third game from Snowdale Design and it takes place in Daimyria, the world of animalfolks. You will take the role of an adventurer and have to trust and co-operate with your fellow players in order to reach a peaceful conclusion between two warring sides. While you can’t directly

The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls is primarily a fantasy video game series. The franchise has an active modding community, which is a site for discourse and debate over environmental and ecological issues.

Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing is a video game series where the player moves into a village populated by animals, where they are encouraged by the inhabitants and biodiversity to display pro-conservation behaviours and attitudes.

Bee Simulator

Bee Simulator allows a player to experience life as a honey bee, encouraging the player to actively learn about the bee ecosystem, the value of biodiversity, and the relationships between animals and humans.

The Spill

In this game, an offshore rig by the name of DeepWell 4 has blown out and the rupture is spilling crude oil into the ocean at an alarming rate. Players form a response team and must work together, using individual talents to avert an ecological disaster.

Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox videogame where the player can build, create, and survive in order to explore the environment.

Solutions

From the website: “It’s a race against time to fight climate change. You and your friends must work together to reduce global emissions before it’s too late! As you strategically deploy various climate solutions, you will be tested on your knowledge and your ability to prioritize. You will need to think critically about each solution

Climate Crisis

Climate Crisis lets the players cooperatively, or competitively research technologies which can change the course of our climate crisis. The players have to manage the needs for energy producting whilst keeping the population nourished. During the play session the players face numerous environmental challenges. The game can be played by 1 to 6 players.

Wildfire Rescue!

Wildfire Rescue! Lets the players play as a group of park rangers. A wildfire broke out and it is upon the players to save as many campers as possible. The players have to cooperate in order to save as many people as possible whilst overcoming obstacles within the forest.

CO₂: Second Chance

CO₂: Second Chance lets the players take on the role of CEO of an energy company. These companies have to respond to the requests of the governments for new, green power plants. The goal for the players is to stop the increase of pollution whilst meeting the rising demand for sustainable energy.

Tiny Footprint

Tiny Footprint requires the players to work together as a group as friends or household in order to try and reach the climate target which is set by the game. The players can use Finances, Discipline and Commitment cards in order to complete their missions to reduce emissions.

Kyoto

The players are put into the shoes of the decision makers, the wealth of the players' countries is at stake. Can the players create climate targets without harming their countries' economy, or does the players' greed hurt the planet's climate?

Ecos: First Continent

Ecos: First Continent gives the player the ability to collaboratively shape a growing continent of flora, fauna and geological features. The players have to collect elements in order to complete their cards which in turn gives them the ability to shape the continent to their own purpose.

Project Baikal

Project Baikal is a collaborative village-building game which is inspired from the tower defence genre, popular within video games. The game features a unique form of play in which the player can execute their actions at the same time, without player turns.

Rescue Polar Bears

Rescue Polar Bears is set in the year 2045. With increasingly serious global warming, the last area of ice on land at the North Pole is melting and all the polar bears are homeless. Players in this game will be a team formed by all nations to save them.