Earth Island Odyssey
Imagine a hero’s quest video game comprising the most comprehensive set of climate restoration solutions on the planet. Now imagine it delivered to the more than three billion video gamers worldwide for free.
What other global initiative can more rapidly address the existential challenge of human-caused climate change?
Let’s offer tangible hope and tools to future generations through immersive, community-building gameplay.
We have the blueprint. Help us build it out.
“I’ve come across many games focused on the climate emergency. Earth Island Odyssey not only stands out far and above the rest, but promises to be the most beautiful and engaging game I’ve seen to date focused around climate.”
“Bravo! In Earth Island Odyssey, you have captured both the fateful challenge and the transformative opportunity of our planetary moment. This game can awaken us to the choices that are ours to make, bringing both the information we need and the invitation to engage and learn how to respond to the most challenging issue we as humans have ever faced. It’s as wondrous a use of our information technology and the world wide web as we’ve seen yet.”
The Premise
Suffering from the climate crisis, a decimated spot of land in a rising sea called Earth Island seeks a valiant ally to fight for its survival. Braving the dangers of storms, fires, and floods, the game player must discover what has plagued the island and then acquire the skills and knowledge necessary to restore its beauty and natural abundance before time runs out, an odyssey of hope and transformation.
The Problems
There are numerous critical sites on the island that need the player’s immediate attention as well as ghosts of the previous inhabitants who abandoned the island after they ruined it. When a site is discovered a ghost appears. The player must pacify the troubled spirit before accessing a globe portal.
The Solutions
Clicking on a globe teleports the player to a stratified Climate Solution Module in another part of the world. Included in this microcosm are project-based adventures, captivating games, rousing YouTube videos, illuminating podcasts, team-building chat rooms, photorealistic simulations, challenging puzzles, artificial intelligence portals, and inspiring career paths, all laser-focused on actions that will restore the island.
Acquiring skills to combat climate change incorporates both Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning and NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards)
* Remember * Understand * Apply * Analyze * Evaluate * Create *
The Incentives
The oceans are rising, but knowledge is power. After gaining sufficient expertise in the Solution Module, the player teleports back to the same decimated location on the island only to discover it completely restored.
Motivated by the magical transformation the inspired player sets off anew to heal the island piece by piece into a thriving, interconnected ecosystem to win the game before the warming oceans and perilous hurricanes sink the island.
Adventures experienced, friendships made, careers launched, lives changed, climate crises averted, and real communities enhanced - these will be just some of the rewards of playing the game of Earth Island Odyssey with an intrepid hummingbird as guide.
Why Earth Island Odyssey will be a game changer
It will be fast. It will be free. Gamers around the world will access it using the speed of the Internet.
Its demographic will be vast and diverse with hundreds of millions of potential game players worldwide.
Earth Island Odyssey will fundamentally alter a player’s relationship to the biosphere.
It will remind us of the love we have for planet Earth.
And we will protect what we love.
“You may hate video games, maybe you don’t play them, or you think they’re a waste of time, but I’ve taught K-12 for thirty years, and I’ve never seen kids learn anything faster than when there was a video game to help them learn it. Earth Island Odyssey is destined to be one of those games.”