''Red Redemption'' was a
serious game developer based in
Oxford,
UK. It produced two
global warming game
A global warming game, also known as a climate game or a climate change game, is a type of serious game. As a serious game, it attempts to simulate and explore real life issues to educate players through an interactive experience. The issues par ...
s: ''
Climate Challenge'' and ''
Fate of the World''.
In 2012, Red Redemption went into
receivership.
Games
''Climate Challenge'' is a 2006
browser game produced in conjunction with the
BBC, the
Environmental Change Institute
The Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford in England was founded in 1991 "to organize and promote interdisciplinary research on the nature, causes and impact of environmental change and to contribute to the development of ma ...
and the
University of Oxford. The player chooses policies to implement over a 100-year period in
Europe to curb emissions, while maintaining the necessary
food
Food is any substance consumed by an organism for nutritional support. Food is usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contains essential nutrients, such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, or minerals. The substance is inge ...
,
water and
energy supply.
''Fate of the World'' is a 2011 game for
Microsoft Windows
Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...
and
Mac OS with a similar theme but a global focus. The player is put in charge of a fictional international organization managing
social,
technological and
environmental
A biophysical environment is a biotic and abiotic surrounding of an organism or population, and consequently includes the factors that have an influence in their survival, development, and evolution. A biophysical environment can vary in scale f ...
policies. There are several scenarios one can choose to play, with goals ranging from improving living conditions in
Africa, to preventing catastrophic
climate change, to exacerbating it.
See also
*
Global warming game
A global warming game, also known as a climate game or a climate change game, is a type of serious game. As a serious game, it attempts to simulate and explore real life issues to educate players through an interactive experience. The issues par ...
*''
Climate Challenge''
*''
Fate of the World''
References
Video game development companies
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Companies based in Oxford
Environmental education video games
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