Clima Futura @ VU -- communicating (unconvenient) science

Anton Eliëns, Marek van de Watering, Hugo Huurdeman, Winoe Bhikharie, Haroen Lemmers, Pier Vellinga

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In this paper we introduce Clima Futura, a game about climate change. The primary aim of Clima Futura is to gain experience with the parameters affecting climate change and to give access to climate change related research in a playful manner. The concept for the game has been developed as a submission for the yearly Dutch contest for the communication of science. In this paper we will give an overview of the scientific background of the game, the overall design of the game, and our approach for realizing the game, deploying a modular architecture which allows for extending the game with minigames contributed by the community of players.
Keywords and phrases: climate change, science communication, model-based simulation, serious games

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