Environmental Sublime – Green Media Mediography

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is a 2023 action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. The game is part of the Avatar franchise, and was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on December 7, 2023.

Terra Nil

Terra Nil is a reverse city builder about ecosystem reconstruction. Turn a barren wasteland into an ecological paradise complete with different flora and fauna.

ABZÛ

In the game ABZÛ, the player takes on the role of a diver in a part of the ocean. Without any knowledge on himself, the environment, or the purpose of being there, it is up to the player to discover the secrets of the deep sea. During this adventure, the player will swim alongside all

SpaceBuzz

The non-profit SpaceBuzz educational foundation is inspired by the ‘Overview Effect’ (see below), that—until recently—only astronauts in space were able to experience. SpaceBuzz wants to enable 10-12 year old children to follow in the footsteps of astronauts and experience seeing Earth from space for themselves and inspire them to become ambassadors of planet Earth. Its

Earth (board game)

From the website: “Earth is an open-world engine builder for 1 to 5 players with simple rules and countless strategic possibilities. With its encyclopedic nature and a near-infinite number of tableau combinations, every single game will allow you to discover new synergies and connections, just as our vast and fascinating world allows us to do!

Evolution: CLIMATE

Evolution: CLIMATE is a stand-alone game for 2 – 6 players in the Evolution product line of board games, sharing the core systems with the original title. From the website: “In Evolution: CLIMATE, players adapt their species in a dynamic ecosystem where food is scarce, predators lurk, and the climate can swing between scorching hot

Into the Wild

Into the Wild is a biographical movie about the story of Christopher McCandless, a man disconnected from modern society who rejects his conventional life. He is presented as an eco-hero and a symbol of cultural alienation.

Red Dead Redemption Online: Naturalist

Red Dead Redemption 2 is Western themed action game. Its online mode features various different roles you can take on in the wild west. One of these roles is the naturalist role, where the player plays a conservationist storyline.

The Botanical Revolution: On the Necessity of Art and Gardening

An art exhibition that features an array of modern artistic interpretations of the ecological and shifting cultural importance of the garden. The exhibition seeks to stimulate ecological awareness and tries to educate its visitors on garden practices and views on nature throughout history while emphasizing the Anthropocene.

Surviving Mars: Green Planet

“Build a sustainable colony in space.” The premise of Surviving Mars (2018) is simple, but the challenges presented in the game are not; the Red Planet is unforgiving and full of dangers. Your colonists are only safe in glass domes; both oxygen and water have to be gathered, refined and stored in metal structures; food

The Elder Scrolls

The Elder Scrolls is primarily a fantasy video game series. The franchise has an active modding community, which is a site for discourse and debate over environmental and ecological issues.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is the latest original entry in the Zelda series of videogames, which started with The Legend of Zelda (1986) and has grown into an iconic franchise since. While most Zelda games feature environmental themes, such as eternal trees, sacred forests and easily disturbed wildlife, Breath of the

Wayfinder

In the free-to-play online game Wayfinder, the players move a character across the landscape, in search of tokens that reveal lyrical fragments hidden in the wind. This eventually advances the player to the next stage of the experience and, according to the game's website, brings them "closer to fully restoring nature’s balance".

Forests of Pangaia

In this game, players represent a young spirit of the forest, sent out by the goddess Gaia to bring life to the world.

“Ecosistemes” Menu

The menu ‘Ecosistemes’ at fine-dining restaurant Moments is structured according to different biomes, i.e. dishes usually combine ingredients that can be found in close proximity in nature, e.g. at a certain depth in the ocean. The menu was only available for a limited period of time.

Ecosia

Ecosia is a search engine that plants trees.

City Rain

City Rain lets the player take on the role of member of the Rescue And Intervention Non-Profit (RAIN) organization. The player has to help reorganize cities in order to make them become environmentally friendly.

World Rescue

World Rescue is a narrative, research-based video-game inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Through fast-paced gameplay set in Kenya, Norway, Brazil, India, and China, players meet and help five young heroes and help them solve global problems—such as displacement, disease, deforestation, drought, and pollution—at the community level.

Block’hood

Block’hood lets the player diversify and experiment on the building of cities and the unique ecosystems within them. The player has a plethora of building blocks available to him/her, which all have their ability to create unique neighborhoods when combined in different ways.

WWF Panda Junior

WWF Panda Junior lets the player play as either Alex or Emma as they discover the African continent. The game is dedicated to a young audience from 6 to 9 years old. During their journey the players will meet lots of different animals, unfortunately tourists and hunters will try to stop the players from progressing.

Rizk

Rizk is a game that has been developed for the Science Museum in London as part of the “Climate Science”. The player is tasked to nurture and defend their “mother plant” in a game that is based of the tower defense genre.

Bioharmonious

Bioharmonious lets the player combine the features of two planets in order to create a harmony between mechanization and nature.

The Environmental Sublime and Ecological Melancholy

Economides, L. (2016) ‘The Environmental Sublime and Ecological Melancholy’, in The Ecology of Wonder in Romantic and Postmodern Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 109–152. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-47750-7_4.