Among the world's ever-expanding array of board games, a small but growing number deal with climate change. My thought was that if people learn best while they are active and joyful participants, then turning a serious topic like climate change into a board game might have value beyond the game.
Read MoreThe climate crisis impacts our ability to keep making and playing the games we know and love. We as game makers and players have significant power to take truly meaningful action against this existential threat. To ensure our video game ecosystem's survival, we need to increase the sustainability of our products and supply chains.
Read MoreThere are many ways in which individuals and communities can start to explore their own responsibilities and potential in relation to the climate crisis. As games designers, games theorists/teachers, facilitators of games-based learning and practitioners of playful / gameful design in general, our panellists believe that games and gamification can be powerful tools for exploring what is, and what can be. Gameful design can help in raising awareness and achieving deep learning in complex issues, as well as motivating and empowering individual behaviour modification, systemic understanding and change, and innovation practices.
Read MoreStudents can work in teams researching subtopics, like water pollution or sea levels, and then select a design tool to use, like Scratch, Gamestar Mechanic, or graph paper and dice for a non-digital game. The event, coordinated by Peg Steffen, who manages the NOAA Games website, offered an opportunity for student participants to work together on climate game prototypes with facilitators and educators.
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