Motif: Capitalism

An economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making a profit.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/capitalism

An economic and political system in which property, business, and industry are controlled by private owners rather than by the state, with the purpose of making a profit.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/capitalism

Blue Planet (TTRPG series)

Originally published in 1997 by Biohazard Games and recently revived with Blue Planet: Recontact, Blue Planet is widely considered a pioneering and successful example of ‘hard’ eco-science fiction in the tabletop RPG space. The game is set in 2199 on Poseidon, an alien waterworld that humanity has fled to following a devastating, 70-year ecological collapse

New Angeles

New Angeles, set in the Android universe, is a bustling industrial hub that depends on constant resource extraction and distribution to function. Each player controls a megacorporation, competing to earn more wealth than their opponents. But they must also cooperate to keep the city stable. If unrest, infrastructure problems, or resource shortages cause the city

Happy Shoppers

Chloé Wake and Paul Wake (Frank and Alex Games). Self-published, 2024. Free to download. 3+ players | 20–40 minutes | Adult Happy Shoppers: A New and Most Disgusting Game for Consumers of All Ages is a free, print-and-play card game designed for the Fuck Capitalism Game Jam (2024), with a revised edition available to download from

The Miasma of Miswell Hill

TTRPG Scenario Chloé Germaine and James Louis Smith. The Gauntlet, 2022. Published in The Between Season 3. 3–5 players including a Game Master | 2–4 hours | Adult The Miasma of Miswell Hill is a scenario for The Between, Jason Cordova’s tabletop roleplaying game of Victorian monster-hunting published by the Gauntlet. In The Between, players

Scythe

Jamey Stegmaier. Art by Jakub Rozalski. Stonemaier Games, 2016. 1-5 Players | 115 Minutes | Age 14+ Jamie Stegmaier’s Scythe is an engine-building game in which players take control of nations struggling to survive in 1920s ‘Europa’, a place riven by unrest caused by the Great War. The city-state known simply as “The Factory”, whose

Warframe (Vallis Undermind Expansion)

This entry is still work-in-progress. With the Vallis Undermind expansion, Digital Extremes added a content update to its live-service ‘looter shooter’ game that, while not having an overtly educational or environmental focus, clearly taps into a heightened sensitivity and receptiveness towards human/nature themes in popular culture. Pertinent design choices include:

Daybreak

Daybreak is a cooperativeCooperation This is a dummy entry about cooperation. board game that models technological, political and social responses to climate change. It was designed by Pandemic creator Matt Leacock and Matteo Menapace. Throughout the game, the Earth’s temperature begins to rise. Simultaneously, players must contend with crisis events, such as droughts, wildfires, rising

Half-Earth Socialism

Based on the book of Troy Vetesse and Drew Pendergrass, Half-Earth Socialism is a free videogame in which you are tasked with governing the world, reducing humanity greenhouse gas emissions, protecting biodiversity, and reducing the temperature to 1 degree above industrial levels at the year 2100.  To reach that objective you’ll have different policy proposals

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