Terraforming – Green Media Mediography

The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter drops you on a dead planet. No oxygen, no water, no food. Just rocks, sand, and a blinking oxygen meter. You are not fighting enemies here. The enemy is the environment. What makes it stand out is how much of the game is about building a livable world from scratch. You start

Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction

Be it evolution and apocalypse during the Golden Age of Science Fiction or the imperialism of New Wave Sci-Fi: Ecological themes in science fiction have always been present within the genre. This collection of essays touches on the connection between sci-fi works and the environmental changes we have been and are currently experiencing ourselves. By

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

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