Welcome to Our Awesome Climate Games 🌍 🎮
We’re two friends who met through Work on Climate organization, connecting from opposite sides of the world—one in China, venturing into the game industry as a 3D environment artist after a career in mechanical engineering, and the other in Germany, exploring the intersection between game development and climate science, while spending most of his career in backend game programming and data engineering.
Despite our unique career paths, we share a common goal: using the power of games to make a positive impact on climate and the environment. This page is our way of sharing the tools, insights, and resources we discover on our journey. Whether you’re new to climate games or already involved, we hope you’ll find something valuable here.
We are wide open to contributions of course! Don't hesitate to add your awesome resources related tp climate games by making a [pull request].
- Sustainable Pathways - quite comprehensive resource guide to learn about the key topics on everything related to sustainability.
- Open Sustainable Technology - it contains many climate tech softwares, and also education resources.
- Airminers BootUp - 6-week sprint virtual meeting to learn about CDR (Carbon-Dioxide Removal) with peers
- ClimateFresk - Collaborative workshop will teach you the fundamental science behind climate change and empower you to take action.
- ClimateInteractive - En-ROADS Simulation Tool - A powerful climate solutions simulation tool that runs in your browser
- Work on Climate - Climate community on Slack
- Globaia Project-a non-profit organisation, fuses science, art, and stories to deepen planetary understanding.
- AskNature - A web tool to learn from other species'successful strategies and adaptations through environmental changes
- Ecograder - A website carbon emission caculator, provides advice for procuring a green web host and reducing website-related emissions
- So you want to work on climate - A document on resource, jobs board, reading list for people who want to start working on climate.
- Anticiplay - An NWO Vidi research project • Exploring how games can help imagine & realize sustainable futures • Games For Better Futures & Futures For Better Games
- Ecogames. Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis (2024) - a great book about game and climate, many authors are from German universities where climate games research is conducted.
- Ben from Greening the Games Industry - Dr. Ben Abraham has a really good email newsletter on sustainability and the game industry.
- Indonesian Collective Gamedev - A collection of mutual cooperation posts by Indonesian game developers (mixed of English and Indonesian articles)
- SolipComic - GameExpats Story - A short comic story about gamedev expat in Finland. Created by Solip, Doctoral student & game researcher at Aalto University, Finland.
- Green Game Design - collection of article and resources about games for green impact.
- Games for Good - an initative made by Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, inspired by her TEDxLondon talk about games for good
- GameDev-Resources from Kavex - A wonderful list of Game Development resources, made by Kavex and many open source contributors.
- Green Game Jam 2024 - Unlike other game jams that build games from scratch, the Green Game Jam supports studios to build activations that focus on an environmental theme into their existing games.
- IGDA Climate SIG-The IGDA Climate Special Interest Group that serves to build a safe and inclusive space for game industry professionals who are concerned about climate change.
- Sustainable Games Alliance - A non-profit to make the games industry the leader in sustainability by setting ambitious and achievable standards for environmental and social responsibility.
- Midgard - Making the video game industry sustainable, one game at a time. Midgard gives gamers access to a curated list of the carbon accountable games on the market.
- Green Games-EU funded research project investigating environmental issues related to game development
- Game Studies by New Books Network - Podcast interviews with scholars of games and gaming about their new books
- Tech Jobs for Good - Tech job board for fighting climate change, mostly US based opportunities.
- Jobs for Sustainability-Job board for sustainabily, global opportunities.
- Remote Climate Jobs- Remote climate job board, focused on environmental, sustainability, climate, and green jobs.
- Climate Job List - Climate and climate tech job board, global opportunities.
- Doing Our Bit - a new podcast about making games in the critical decade of climate action
- Serious Gaming - free course on learning how playing games can help us to train people, deal with societal challenges or raise awareness of contemporary social issues
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