Climate Quickie: How video games inspire climate action

It's confirmed – players say they want more green content, says Deborah Mensah-Bonsu, the founder of Games for Good on TEDxLondon’s Climate Curious. With more than 3 billion gamers on the planet, plus a tonne of green themed content, tune in to explore the ways in which people are playing for the planet, and how games can help us change the world for the better, together. 

Resources: 
Follow Deborah on Twitter
Follow Deborah on LinkedIn
Check out Games for Good
Check out Playing for the Planet
Check out Green Game Jam
Read the Green Game Jam Player Research
Check out the IGDA Climate SIG 

Deborah’s recommended green video games: 
Terra Nil
The Wandering Village 
Riders Republic 

Listen to more Climate Curious episodes on creativity: 
Xavier Cortada, What is an eco-artist? 
Emma Stewart, How your Netflix and chill can save the world
Kumi Naidoo, What is artivism?
Kumi Naidoo, How culture can help us win the climate war
Katharine Hayhoe, Why talking is the most important thing you can do to fight climate change

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