DISQUS

AmbroseKalifornia · 10 months ago

I went from Collision Detection, to your Wired column about games as art, to Roger Ebert's article about games as bowel movements, back to your column, then over to Passage, where I sat in a dull shock about how I'm wasting my life, (loved ones just hold us back??) then came back here to finish your article, then went back to Wired to read the article you introduced here.

Honestly, I found the path you laid out more interesting than "Flower".

Clive · 9 months ago

Glad to be of service, in that regard!

Ben · 9 months ago

There are at least two other games about global warming released before "Flower" (There are probably more.)

One is a game called "Super energy apocalypse" (the original, a newer version was just realeased). Its relation to global warming doesn't really need to be argued.
COMPANY WEBSITE: http://www.brainjuicegames.com/index.html

Another is a game about oil mining that I really dont want to take the time to find.

In any case, Flower is definitely not the first game about global warming.

Clive · 9 months ago

Thanks for locating that stuff! I wish I'd found those so I could have given them shout-outs in the piece!

Tisiwoota · 9 months ago

Venture Arctic is another earlier game about climate change: http://www.pocketwatchgames.com/venture-arctic

"Extreme seasonal change defines the cycle of life in the northernmost reaches of the globe. In Venture Arctic, the player controls the forces of earth, sun, wind, and water to bring summer and winter to polar bears, orcas, and more.... Experience the effects of climate change and mass extinction. Experiment with how animal relationships change when the weather is unseasonably warm or when a species is knocked out of the food chain."

Clive · 9 months ago

Very cool!

- · 8 months ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming_game There is a wikipedia page about games about climate change (back when it was called global warming).

Bible Study Man · 8 months ago

I would say you give the game more credit than it deserves. The actual science of the global warming is not understood by blowing wind through flowered fields. Perhaps something more like Sim Earth or Sim Life (old games that perhaps never made it big time because they contained so much science) would be better. I'd like to see something that provides the game player to enact simulations and solutions that are being debated in the public forum. Do space mirrors, algea in the Pacific, and storing carbon in the depths of the ocean change the climate? Perhaps a game model can give us a good understanding about real solutions to our mess.

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Flowe makes a change from all the other Games on the market at the moment and looks like an interesting way of getting people to think about it.

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