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Greening Games at GDS Prague 2023
Game Developers Session is the oldest Central European conference dedicated to games development, game technologies, business and marketing. GDS Prague regularly hosts 1000+ game developers, producers and journalists. Over 150 game studios are participating every year. Two of our team members participated in the 2023 edition. Sonia Fizek gave a talk “Greening Games. Designing and…
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Greening Games at Sustainability Nexus Conference
The 2023 Sustainability Nexus hybrid conference, was held on November 15th and based in Cologne and all across Europe/ The event serves as a dynamic meeting point for global industry leaders, rallying to address pressing challenges around environmental impact, social issues, inclusion, and diversity. Sonia Fizek was presenting at the conference in the Trailblazers section.…
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Greening Games Education. How to approach environmental issues in video game-related courses?
The workshop is a multiplier event presenting of our project results so far. The event is hosted within the framework of the CEEGs 2023: Meaning and Making of Games Conference. The leading question we want to ask in this workshop is: “What does it mean to teach “green gaming”? What should the students know and…
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Greening Games at the GDC 2023: Educators Summit
Today, on March 21st 2023, the Greening Games’ project leader Sonia Fizek is presenting at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, USA. Sonia is participating in a session on Teaching Sustainability and Game Design: From the Low-Hanging Fruits to the Root of the Problem. Speakers: Patrick Prax, Clayton Whittle, Trevin York, Sonia Fizek…
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Greening Games at CEEGS 2022
On the 13th of September, our colleagues organized a workshop focused on the intersections of sustainable futures and the game industry. The workshop was part of the established Central and Eastern European Game Studies conference in Tallinn, Estonia, which unites Game Studies scholars from Central, Eastern, but also other parts of Europe. The workshop was…
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Games&Climate Summit at the Clash of Realities 2022
Since 2006, the International Conference on the Art, Technology and Theory of Digital Games, or the Clash or Realities, has offered a thriving forum for transferring knowledge from research to politics and the public, focusing on media-pedagogical issues. The event is organized this year for the last final time and includes a variety talks related…
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Green Games: (Un)Sustainability of Digital Play panel at the 14th DiGRA conference in Kraków
On Friday, July 8th 2022, members of the Greening Games team together with our collaborators from the Nordic Alliance for Sustainability in Games, will be presenting at the 14th Digital Games Research Conference in Kraków, Poland. The hybrid panel will focus on the questions related to sustainability of digital play. Digital games are entangled within…
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Pilot Didactic Project Cologne Game Lab & IGDA Climate SIG
During the months of May and July 2022, a didactic pilot project was conducted within the framework of the Greening Games project. The project was designed and delivered within the existing module infrastructure in the B.A. Digital Games study program at Cologne Game Lab, TH Köln. The module Collaborative Projects is set within the context…
