====== Climate Games ======

===== Indie games =====
 
  * [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1805110/Solarpunk/ | Solarpunk]]
  * [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2681030/Outbound | Outbound]]
  * [[https://www.stardewvalley.net | Stardew Valley]]
  * [[https://nikaleksandr.itch.io/solarpunkfutures | Solarpunk Futures (Card Game)]]
  * [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1989070/Synergy/|Synergy]]
  * [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/966330/Flower/|Flower]]
  * [[https://plasticflower.itch.io/solarpunkification | solarpunkification]]
  * [[https://www.terranil.com|Terra Nil]]
  * [[https://studioekosi.itch.io/mikiwam|Mikiwam]] Solarpunk herbalism
  * [[https://fholio.de/forest-poems | Forest Poems]] write little poems made of trees ...
  * [[https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/|Fully Automated!]] open source tabletop roleplaying game set in a solarpunk future 


**Molleindustria**
  * [[https://molleindustria.itch.io/green-new-deal-simulator|Green New Deal Simulator (2024)]] "Achieve zero emissions before it’s too late!"
  * [[https://www.molleindustria.org/lichenia/| Lichenia (2019)]] A city building game for the Anthropocene. Reclaim the ruins of a fallen city and create a sustainable human habitat. 
  * [[http://www.protestgames.org|Casual Games for Protesters (2017)]]
  * [[http://www.phonestory.org/|Phone Story]] Follow your phone's journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence.

**Jane MC Gonigal**
https://janemcgonigal.com
  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Without_Oil|World Without Oil (2007)]] is an alternate reality game (ARG) created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible near-future global oil shortage, post peak oil.

** BURG Games **
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/puls/|PULS, Daniel Strobel (2020)]] low power bike game where you have to collect wifi points in the city.  
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/luftschloss | Luftschloss, Wenzel Stendike (2020)]] mobile energy resource managing game, which also uses the battery level of the cell phone as game element.
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/capture-the-hood/|Capture the hood, Franziska Kinder (2020)]] energy-harvesting running game
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/box-mehr-zeit-statt-zeug/|BOX – Mehr Zeit statt Zeug, Mareike Konz (2020)]] physical cube that encourages you to declutter
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/im-penguin/|I'M PENGUIN, Zhiwei Wei (2019/20)]] VR experience that promotes empathy for penguins
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/deep-time/|Deep Time, Sebastian Beier & Yasmin Möller (2021/22)]] Escape game artifact that lets you discover a long-gone dangerous energy source
  * [[https://aliciamr.itch.io/2030-the-apocalypse | 2030: the Apocalypse, Alicia Monreal Ortega (2020)]] A game about avoiding the Apocalypse that is to come in 2030
  * [[https://www.burg-halle.de/design/multimediavr-design/multimediavr-design/studienarbeiten/project/der-verstrahlte-wald/|Der verstrahlte Wald, Daniel Strobel (2021/22)]] Survival game concept about a family of mice who have to survive in an irradiated forest. 
  * [[https://tristanschulze.de/micros/| MICRO CONSOLES, Tristan Schulze (2023)]] low power cooperative gaming consoles

**Jonas**
  * [[https://pixelsix.net/virtualboom/|virtual boom, Jonas Hansen (2023)]] Virtual fireworks, because we can not harm the environment by setting off firecrackers anymore.
  * [[https://pixelsix.net/collectic-wifi-outdoor-game| CollecTic, Jonas Hansen (2006)]] Mobile city game, collect wifi points with your PSP 
  * [[https://pixelsix.net/solar-wind-periscope-2011/|Solar Wind Periscope, Jonas Hansen & Lasse Scherffig (2011)]] an artistic instrument visualizing atmospheric conditions that depend on space weather.
  * [[Thumbs Down, Jonas Hansen (2010)]] 


===== Board Games =====
* CATAN - New Energies [[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/new-catan-game-has-overpopulation-pollution-fossil-fuels-and-clean-energy/ | New CATAN game coming soon ...]]


===== Short history =====

  * Utopia (Mattel, 1981)
  * Rainbow Warrior (MicroStyle, 1989)
  * Sid Meier's Sim Earth (1990)
  * Sid Meier's Civilization (since 1991 ...)
  * Sim City Societies (2007)
  * Anno 2070 (2011)
  * Fate to the World (2011 serious game)
  * Eco (Strange Loop Games, 2018)
  * Disco Elysium (2019)
  * Horizon Zero Dawn: Forbidden West (Guerrilla Games, 2022)

===== Link lists =====


  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_climate_change_video_games | List of climate change video games (Wikipedia)]]
  * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n78WYo-SQQ|Global Warming, as Depicted by 30 Years of Strategy Games (Youtube)]]