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Balance of the Planet (0 comments)
Age Range 11 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 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
EnerCities (0 comments)
Age Range 14 and up
Description
EnerCities is the first serious game on Facebook. It's about energy sources and the balance between people, planet and profit. Can you create a metropolis that stands the test of time?
Developer
Paladin Studios
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
Politics
Fate of the World (0 comments)
Age Range 11 and up
Description
Save the world or burn it down - it’s your choice! Fate of the World is a unique dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands.
Developer
Red Redemption Ltd
Social Issue Channels
Economics
Public Policy
Public Health
Environment
Global Conflict
News
Politics
Global Conflicts: Latin America (0 comments)
Age Range Description
Global Conflicts: Latin America is a 3D-roleplaying game that let players explore key problems in Latin American countries. The region is one of the most turbulent, violent, and poverty-striken places in the world, yet we rarely hear anything about the nations that struggle with paramilitary rule, extreme poverty, and exploitation of the population.
Developer
Serious Games Interactive
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Poverty
Environment
Global Conflict
Politics
Hurricane Katrina: Tempest in Crescent City (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Economics
Poverty
Environment
News
Politics
love letters to the future (0 comments)
Age Range 14 and up
Description
Love Letters to the Future is cross platform experience designed to raise awareness about the rapidly expanding danger of global warming. It was funded by Greenpeace International and a group of NGO's as an online innovative game, buried artfully in a website that contained user generated letters about the future of our planet. It launched prior to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen December 2009. The link attached is a video walkthrough of the project. It was recently nominated in best activism category of SXSW web awards,recently won two webby wards
Developer
sara thacher from nonchalance
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Martian Boneyards (0 comments)
Age Range 14 and up
Description
Martian Boneyards is a game of scientific collaboration and problem-solving in the new, spectacular, high definition massively-multiplayer online environment (MMO) called Blue Mars. EdGE@TERC and VSE have teamed together to bring expertise in innovative science education and state-of-the-art MMO gaming technologies to create an unprecedented opportunity for scientific knowledge building.
Developer
EdGE@TERC and VSE
Social Issue Channels
Environment
Other
Oiligarchy (0 comments)
Age Range 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
Human Rights
Economics
Environment
Politics
Participatory Chinatown (0 comments)
Age Range 14 and up
Description
Participatory Chinatown seeks to pair gaming with the traditional town-hall meeting. Donning virtual avatars, residents explore Chinatown in someone else's shoes to complete virtual quests that highlight planning issues and encourage collaboration and discussion. The game combines virtual interaction, physical deliberation, and Web-based input to foster extended community participation.
Developer
Muzzy Lane
Social Issue Channels
Public Policy
Environment
Politics
Other
Precipice (0 comments)
Age Range 11 and up
Description
A narratively driven 3D game about climate change.
Developer
Centre for Digital Media
Social Issue Channels
Environment
UN Global Compact Dilemma Game (0 comments)
Age Range 18 and up
Description
The United Nations Global Compact Dilemma Game is a board game that allows players to try to solve a series of challenging real life business dilemmas. The dilemmas cover human rights, environmental, labour standard and corruption issues
Developer
Responsible Business Solutions
Social Issue Channels
Human Rights
Economics
Poverty
Environment
Politics
Other
WolfQuest (0 comments)
Age Range 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
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