On April 18th, EarthGames had the privilege of participating in this year’s Polar Science Day at Pacific Science Center! With EarthGames developer Dawson Fourier manning our booth, we shared our Arctic Trilogy Games, and had a great time speaking with visitors about our games and the arctic! Thank you to all who came and visited the station!
Announcing the 2026 Climate Jam Theme: Plant a Seed!
Read more about the jam on IndieCade’s site! You can register your team at the itch.io Climate Jam 2026 page!
If there was an EarthGames Hall of Fame, what ecogames would you nominate? Here are a few that come to mind:
What would you add?
After an amazing Climate Jam 2025, we’re looking forward to being in community and creating together in 2026. The world is changing fast. What kinds of games should we be making this year? Let us know if you have ideas for themes for Climate Jam 2026. Contact us at earthgamesuw@gmail.com.
The 2025 edition of the Climate Game Jam starts on Friday! We’ll kickoff at 6 PM Pacific with a keynote presentation from Isabel Carrera Zamanillo (Front and Centered).
The jam goes from June 13-July 18, and all skill levels are welcome! Last year we had 500 participants and nearly 50 games were created!
https://www.indiecade.com/climate-jam/
EarthGames would most definitely consider Polar Science Day to be a success!! Lots of the kids really loved the games, and lots of parents loved that their kids were learning at the same time. We got to teach over 100 different kids about albedo (Soot Out at the 0oC Corral) and permafrost (Erode Runner) and it was beyond a fulfilling experience. We set up QR codes for families to play the Soot Out game on their own devices, but it quickly became the way we directed parents to find the rest of the games.
We had a ton of fun, decided the Pacific Science Center may be the greatest thing ever, and have an intense sense of fulfillment after seeing so many kids learn important topics. Teaching may be the most important thing in life!
We’ll be back at Pacific Science Center for Polar Science Day! It’s April 12, 10 AM to 5 PM, and we’ll be showing our Arctic Trilogy Games. Hope to see you there!
Also stay tuned for info about this year’s Climate Jam on Earth Day!
Introducing the Sustainability Action Arena, a zany and fun tour of the University of Washington’s Sustainability Action Plan!!! Compete in mini-games that outline the ten steps that UW is enacting to increase equitable and local purchasing, student engagement, and research regarding sustainability while trying to beat your high score!
Through a partnership between Earth Games Studio and UW Sustainability, we have been working for a long time to put together a fun and interesting way to navigate UW’s steps on how they are making a green future, a real reality.
Thank you to the UDUB Minecraft Team for providing the screenshots from their one-to-one replica of campus to provide as the background images for our game and the Campus Sustainability Fund for funding the project.
Click Here To Read More About UW’s Sustainability Action Plan
Our annual Climate Game Jam, co-organized with IndieCade, kicked off one month ago… and it’s only now coming to an end! Instead of the weekend jams we used to host at Pacific Science Center or at UW, or our recent annual week-long virtual jams, this year we’re using the Greenlight Jam format. There are different week-long sprints, including ideation, prototyping, production, and marketing.
It’s turning out to be a huge success! Over 400 jammers have registered, and 67 prototypes were submitted during the second week sprint (59 are playable here). The amount of talent and creativity displayed among the jammers is just incredible! We can’t wait to see the final submissions soon.
In other news, a climate change version of the classic board game Catan was recently released, called Catan: New Energies. Grist recently interviewed Dargan for their article about the game, who said “It’s just more evidence that people have climate change at the top of their minds now… There’s demand for ways to think about it, deal with it, in fun ways.”
There were so many amazing games made in the IndieCade/Games for Our Future/UW EarthLab Climate Game Jam 2022! In honor of the Science Friday segment about the jam airing today, we made a twitter thread about 12 of our favorites, in such a wide range of genres. Hope you have as much fun with these games as we have!
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn honor of the @scifri segment on the Climate Game Jam airing today, here's a thread of some of our favorite games from the event!
— EarthGames (@EarthGamesUW) August 12, 2022
The winner was Row, an epic narrative RPG about coexisting after a flood. Can't wait for the new version coming this fall! https://t.co/F3Inru8ZHO pic.twitter.com/vntEHpBJaT
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