Andrei Voinov's Blog: CarbonCraft

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CarbonCraft is a collaborative educational game teaching kids about energy usage in the house. It is a game we have created on the topic of climate change and environmental sustainability.There are very few games in the climate change category of educational games. High quality climate change games are coming out but none have multiplayer elements. We understand that getting into schools is difficult, but our approach and partnership with curriculum developers will make entry easier. CarbonCraft is aimed towards middle school students. By seeing the changes that their decisions make they will be learning by doing rather than by taking tests. Based on how efficient their choices are, they will be rewarded with CarbonCoins to purchase upgrades for their home. The players will then be rated on their choices and given awards bavsed on how efficient their home is.

Kitchen and Player's UI

So far the plan is to make CarbonCraft a co-op game where players would be able to walk around the kitchen, pick up items and throw them into the baskets. Their first goal is to gather one item from each category on the checklist in order to cook breakfast with the most energy-efficient ingridinets possible. Each item has different characteristics of water consumption, waste it creates and CO2 it produces. Also, in order to keep electricity usage in check, a player has to turn off appliances which he/she doesn't use.