Green Game Jam: How climate-themed video games are empowering environmental awareness and activism – Coco Liu

In the immersive world of Terra Nil, a city-building strategy game, players confront a submerged city, forced to reclaim land while avoiding seismic risks and resource scarcity. With over 300,000 players within a week of its debut, the success of this climate-themed game exemplifies the potential of video games to amplify climate messaging. Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, founder of Games for Good, discusses leveraging the gaming community's power for environmental impact and emphasises the need for more studios to embrace climate-themed games. Join the Green Game Jam movement to make gaming a force for positive change.

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The $200 Billion Video Game Industry Is a Climate Opportunity

By Coco Liu

It begins with a disturbing scene: a city almost entirely underwater. The city's developers must reclaim land from the sea in order to build new infrastructure, but too much digging will trigger earthquakes and raw materials are scarce. Survival is contingent on finding workarounds, and on installing tidal turbines and other technologies that can harness renewable energy. 

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