Serious Game Arcade: Sustainable Games

How are games and sustainability intertwined? Or broken? Serious games offer a chance to educate, express, and intervene, where play becomes a tool for comprehension and exploration. 

In a climate-shifting world, we see game makers and players expressing climate anxieties about the impact of human industry on our globe. We see games and their play explore  a variety of narrative themes and design tactics around sustainability. Titles like Daybreak demonstrate the complexity of climate action, game makers are building games running on renewable energy, and others are using games to illustrate how related themes (climate misinformation, overconsumption) are contributing to climate harms.

The theme of this year’s Serious Game Arcade is Games and Sustainability, asking how games can seriously help to build sustainable and regenerative futures. We are taking a broad approach to the concept. Join us to talk, share, and explore how games and sustainability intertwine. See the full schedule below:

How can you participate? Join us in person or online by registering for the Zoom Meeting or watching live on YouTube.

Have questions? Send them to info.4@concordia.ca

Organized by Scott DeJong, Scott Preston, Kara Stone, and Mitchell Beer.