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Fight Global Warming With Video Game

by Tim Stevens on July 24, 2007 at 02:40 PM

Game Teaches Global Warming Tactics

We've heard of some seemingly boring and un-fun game concepts before (like Ubisoft's newly announced self-therapy titles for the DS), but none quite like this. A new title from publisher Midori, called simply 'Global Warning,' hopes to teach you how to lower your own carbon emissions. No, you won't learn new breathing techniques that allow you to exclusively inhale without exploding, you'll instead work as an in-game character to both stop a landfill from being built near your in-game house and also to reduce your in-game energy demand and carbon output.

Over the course of the game you'll learn the cost in terms of CO2 and overall waste of, say, buying ricotta cheese from the store vs. making it yourself at home. Choices like this will impact the in-game environment and the results of your actions will be presented to you so that you can, presumably, make changes to your real day-to-day living ... assuming that home-brewed ricotta cheese is something that even remotely interests you, of course.

The game is available for PC and Mac OS X and costs $10.

From MacMegasite

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