We were proud to take part in an inspiring and insightful panel at this year’s Nordic Game conference, bringing together leading voices to discuss how the games industry can become a driving force for climate action and sustainability.

The Green Gaming seminar is a cooperative adventure developed in collaboration with the Game Studies Research Centre (Poland), the Manchester Game Centre (UK), Cologne Game Lab (Germany) and the Centre for Excellence in Game Studies (Finland).

The event will take place over a month, and explore ideas at the crossroads of game studies, environmental sciences, and ecomedia research. Key STRATEGIES researchers are participating in the seminar.

STRATEGIES is deepening its collaboration with the Sustainable Games Alliance (SGA) to support the development of a credible and effective industry standard for environmental responsibility in games production.

Our project is developing policy recommendations to unlock the potential of the game industries to drive societal change. We are creating leading-edge carbon accounting tools for both analogue and video game production and will provide carbon literacy training for game developers. Our research goals therefore align with those of the Playing for the Planet alliance.

On April 30th 2025, the Utrecht Gamelab and the Manchester Game Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University collaborated on a first-of-its-kind hybrid three-hour co-design workshop. Developed as part of ongoing research within Work Package 6 (Hacking Games) of the STRATEGIES project, the session built on the work of Chloe Germaine and Paul Wake on ‘game hacking’ and the ‘franchise hacking’ technique.

Researchers at the University of Aukland are designing a toolkit to support desirable and sustainable futures aesthetics in games, and they need your help!
If you are a game art director, artist or otherwise involved in game visuals, aesthetics and worldbuilding, please consider completing their short survey.