Video game designers battle to depict climate impacts

True to his word, the 30-year-old South African asks players help decontaminate radioactive zones with sunflowers and save the Great Barrier Reef among other climate-related tasks. — Devolver Digital

PARIS: Game designer Sam Alfred is keenly aware of the challenge he faces in trying to build a video game with climate change at its heart.

Lists of best-selling games are filled with titles pushing destruction and violence rather than constructive engagement with the environment.