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Motif: Terraforming

Terraforming Mars

Terraforming Mars is a board game from 1 to 5 players in which the players take the role of corporations whose role is to terraform and populate the planet Mars to make it suitable for human life. For that, they have to modify the temperature, oxygen and water levels present in the planet, but they
Analogue GameAmbiguity: Escalating GrowthCompetitionEnvironmental EducationTerraformingEmpowermentenvironmental awarenessQuietCo-opetitionCompetitive gameSimulation gameSociotechnical Imaginary

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
Digital GameGameCrisis of ImaginationEcological LiteracyGlobal WarmingTerraformingenvironmental awarenessEnvironmental SublimeSolo play

Created by the Green Media Studies initiative at Utrecht University.