Friends of the Community
Tackling the climate crisis requires collective action, and this page is dedicated to the great kindred spirits who are making it happen. Check out the awesome work that’s happening in great organizations we’re celebrating and/or actively partnering with (in alphabetical order).
Anticiplay is an NWO Vidi-funded research project that explores how games can help imagine and realize sustainable futures for all. The project aims to establish a new design paradigm for the gaming sector, while simultaneously transforming the governance one. This is all done in collaboration with CreaTuresEU and many more actors in the future – creating spaces where art and creativity overlap with sustainability and anticipatory governance. In short, Anticiplay is all about games for better futures and futures for better games.
The Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center will reach One Billion People with resilience solutions to climate change, migration and human security challenges by 2030. They focus efforts on people, communities, governments, and institutions to help them better prepare for, navigate and recover from the multiple shocks and stressors people all over the world face every day.
A Ton of Fun is a profit for purpose company and our purpose is to help you to help the planet. As of January 2021 there were an estimated 4.66 billion active internet users*. This represents a huge capacity to help the planet. We are here to make it easy to move towards a climate positive and sustainable future and to turn climate anxiety into climate action.
A Ton of Fun also has an independent game development studio headquartered in Sydney, Australia with its first eco themed game in development. We are a member of the International Game Developers Association.
Games4Sustainability platform is a guide to making your sustainability message more compelling and accessible by employing tabletop games and social simulations. Get inspired by stories of sustainability professionals, academics and organizations that applied social simulations and games in their areas of activity. Browse the Gamepedia and find a perfect match for your needs from among 100+ games and simulations arranged by the Sustainable Development Goals.
The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game creation event taking place around the globe, typically at physical locations. Its goal is to empower individuals worldwide to learn, experiment, and create together through the medium of games. People are invited to explore new technology tools, trying on new roles in development and testing their skills to do something that requires them to design, develop create, test and make a new game in the time span of 48 hours.
IndieCade is organized by an expansive team of dedicated individuals who truly believe that we can make an impact on the industry and ultimately the way the world plays, understands, and is impacted by games. To this end, IndieCade supports independent game development and a series of international events showcasing the future of video games.
Indigenous Game Devs is a global community for supporting Indigenous game developers by providing information about opportunities, sharing resources to enhance development, highlighting Indigenous-made games, and reflecting on exhibitions, conferences, and more.
The Playing For The Planet Alliance (P4PA) was launched during the Climate Summit. In total, the members of the Alliance have the ability to reach more than 1 billion video game players. Members have made commitments ranging from integrating green activations in games, reducing their emissions and supporting the global environmental agenda through initiatives ranging from planting millions of trees to reducing plastic in their products.