Video games can make climate change real for players – here’s how


The US$200bil gaming industry is increasingly featuring the climate crisis, but it’s just as likely to lead to harms as gains. — AFP

LONDON: The ice caps have melted. Continents have been reduced to a handful of islands. Survivors seek to rebuild what is known as the Floodlands.

That is the premise of a video game released this year that represents a new approach developers are taking: using games to educate players on climate change, and what might happen if they fail to rein it in.

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