EMOTION-CENTRIC DESIGN: COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE NIHILISM

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The project will explore the role of emotion in persuasive games and the potential for lasting behavioural change with the aim to influence social and political attitudes toward climate change reflection, action and activism. An iterative design approach will explore player responses to purposefully developed play experiences. Establishing the game design strategies and tactics to evoke emotionally complex, thought-provoking and potentially transformative moments for players. The study will explore storytelling, mechanics, rhetoric and aesthetics that best act as tools for reflection on climate change inaction. Promising design methods will be explored in-depth to create and establish a toolkit of the best approaches for designing persuasive moments in games. Ultimately to play a part in saving the planet, so we can save games.