The SDG Game - Building awareness around the SDG goals

In collaboration with : Tam Xiuyao, Dang Anh Vu
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TL;DR

We built a game to raise the awareness of SDG (Sustainable Development Goals).

Background

SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is proposed by United Nations in 2015.

• A blueprint on addressing a wide range of global challenges humans face everyday
• However, after 5 years, to what extent that the current society actually know about SDGs and get to involve themselves in related activities is still a big question.
• In order to meet the target and indicator by 2030, participation of society and individuals should be taken seriously.

Less than half of the respondents worldwide know the SDGs.

Objective

To raise awareness for SDGs among society, especially the young generations.

Proposal

To create a game.

• A multiplayer game to raise awareness for SDG
  • How to resolve issues surrounding SDG
• Best way to connect with the younger generation
  • 40% of the world’s population play games
  • Our game simulation made to show how our actions and decisions can affect our surroundings
• Hope to increase the engagement in SDGs from virtual to reality

The game

(prototype demo)

How to Play

Within the time span of 10 minutes, you will compete with other players to become the best sustainable community.

Each player’s community will be evaluated with “Sustainable Index”, which is your “Health Bar” in the game. The main components of “Sustainable Index” are “Economy”, “Environment”, and “Society”. In order to improve the indexes and build your community, you will need to make investments throughout the game with “Money”.

Besides growing your own community, players would need to take account into how the other players doing. This is because “Random Event” could be triggered depends on the overall performance of every player in the game.

Random events will affect the “Sustainable Index” of every player’s community substantially. It might cost you a lot to recover from the bad random events. Likewise, good random events might give you a great boost on indexes.