RACE FOR THE ARCTIC:

a docu-game about climate change


CHALLENGE:
The climate crisis is the challenge of a generation, but its scale & complexity is hard to comprehend. The numbers are too small (2 degrees), too big (20 tons) or too abstract (400 parts per million).

CONCEPT:
A docu-game that enables people to engage with climate research through play. Players race as shipping companies to deliver cargo across the Arctic, with each lap representing a different decade of climate change in the region.

APPROACH:
The game narrative & environment is modelled on data from the scientific literature, enriched with expert hypotheses gathered during research workshops with a climate scientist, a shipping CEO, a marine biologist, a political scientist and indigenous communty-leaders. 

IMPACT:
‘Race for the Arctic’ is currently in development with an MVP expected in summer 2020... watch this space!

Year........................ 2020
Role.......................  Director & Lead Researcher
Collaborators..... Sindi Breshani [Producer]
                                     Juliette Coqueti [3D Artist]
                                     Feiqi Wang [3D Artist]
                                     Samantha Selin [3D Artist]
                                     Dimitris Menexopoulos [Sound Design]