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Balance of the Planet (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Balance of the Planet simulates nothing less than Earth's ecosystem. Although Maxis' Sim Earth is often credited as the first "ecosim", the title rightfully belongs to Crawford's game. Both games are equally interesting nevertheless, as they use two vastly different approaches to an enormously complex subject.
Developer
Chris Crawford
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Environment
Climate Challenge (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 18 and up Description
Climate Challenge is a single-player game about climate change, playable for free on the BBC website. It is a sandbox-style strategy game based on real climate change data, where the player can try out different approaches, learn about the issues and have fun at the same time.
Developer
Red Redemption Ltd.
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Politics
Connect2Climate (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up
Developer
ZMQ Software Systems
Social Issue Channels
Environment
ElectroCity (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
ElectroCity is a new online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand.
Developer
Genesis Energy
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Environment
Energyville (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
Energyville represents the average industrialized city and its consumption of energy. Players must create energy sources in the present in order to create a sustainable future city in 2030.
Developer
The Economist Group
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment
Garbage Glut (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
Garbage Glut is a choose-your-own adventure in waste management, available on Gotham Gazette. The game asks everyone to take a turn as sanitation commissioner, making key decisions about how the city should handle its waste.
Developer
Gotham Gazette with Isotope Media
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Public Policy, Other
Global Warming Interactive (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
CO2FX is a web based multi-user educational game which explores the relationship of global warming to economic, political and science policy decisions. The game is driven by a systems dynamics model and is presented in a user friendly interface intended for the high school user.
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Globaloria Student Produced Games:The Zeitgest; The Ultimate Lunch Tray; Jimmy vs. the Splurge (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
These games are all samples of original social-issue web-games students (10-24 years old) created using the Globaloria platform and curriculum. The Globaloria Program is a virtual network for learning social-issue web-game design that empowers youth with the digital literacies to actively participate and lead in today’s new media world.
Developer
Globaloria Students (10-24 years): The Zeitgeist: The Five Experimental Ninjas, RTC (High School) & MCTC (College), WV; The Ultimate Lunch Tray: The ReThinkers, Middle School, New Orleans; Jimmy vs. the Splurge: John Rhea, American University, DC
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, Politics, Public Health, Public Policy, Youth-Produced
Harpooned (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Harpooned is a free game for Windows. It is a Cetacean Research Simulator, where you play the role of a Japanese scientist performing research on whales around Antarctica.
Developer
Conor O'Kane
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
Global Kids Youth Leaders selected the topic of Hurricane Katrina and worked with game developers Gamepill to create Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City. The web-based game recognizes local heroes that emerged during the disaster while educating its players about the essentials of disaster readiness and of reporters.
Developer
Global Kids and Gamepill
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, News, Politics, Poverty, Youth-Produced
Mission: Migration (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Learn how your everyday choices can affect the fate of migrating birds.
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Oiligarchy (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
Now you can be the protagonist of the petroleum era: explore and drill around the world, corrupt politicians, stop alternative energies and increase the oil addiction. Be sure to have fun before the resources begin to deplete.
Developer
Molleindustria
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Human Rights, Politics
Operation: Resilient Planet (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
Sharks! Invasive species! Dismantled oil platforms! Our Resilient Planet is under constant pressure and it needs you to protect and defend our vital ecosystems. Your success depends on your ability to use the right tools, gather the right data and make the right decisions about our planet.
Developer
Filament Games
Social Issue Channels
Environment
SimEP (Solid Waste Management Computer Game) (1 comment)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
SimEP is an online RPG game with six characters in a family setting which aims to inspire every citizen to lead a greener lifestyle. Through this game, the public will be able to appreciate the growing waste problem, how they can play a role in addressing the problem through waste reduction, re-use and recovery.
Developer
Hong Kong Productivity Council
Social Issue Channels
Environment
The Arcade Wire: Oil God (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
You are an Oil God! Wreak havoc on the world's oil supplies by unleashing war and disaster. Bend governments and economies to your will to alter trade practices. Your goal? Double consumer gasoline prices in five years using whatever means necessary.
Developer
Persuasive Games
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment, Public Policy
The Garbage Game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
The Garbage Game allows you to make decisions that effect waste management in New York and helps you understand the funding and distribution issues in order to make educated voting decisions.
Developer
Gotham Gazette
Social Issue Channels
Environment, News, Public Health
The Great Green Game (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
This game tests your knowledge of how consumer choices affect the environment.
Developer
The Union of Concerned Scientists
Social Issue Channels
Environment
The Vinyl Game (0 comments)
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Age Range Ages 14 and up Description
Can you manage an industry sustainably? The Vinyl Game requires you to deliver shareholder profits whilst taking socio-economic and environmental decisions. The consequences of playing purely for economic growth become apparent as EU legislators levy fines, consumers boycott products and the trade unions vote to take strike action!
Developer
Zelian
Social Issue Channels
Economics, Environment
WolfQuest (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 7 and up Description
WolfQuest is an interactive 3D wildlife simulation computer game. WolfQuest players take on the role of a wolf living in Yellowstone National Park. Through trial and error, instinct and experience, players learn about the life of a wolf as they hunt and interact with other wolves.
Developer
MN Zoo and eduweb
Social Issue Channels
Environment, Other
World Without Oil (0 comments)
Age Range Ages 11 and up Description
WORLD WITHOUT OIL invited people worldwide to contribute “collective imagination” to confront a real-world issue: the risk our thirst for oil poses to our economy, climate and quality of life. It’s a milestone in the use of games as democratic, collaborative platforms for exploring possible futures and sparking future-changing action.
Developer
Writerguy LLA
Social Issue Channels
Environment
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