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True to his word, the 30-year-old South African asks players of Terra Nil to help decontaminate radioactive zones with sunflowers and save the Great Barrier Reef among other climate-related tasks. “I remember the Green Cities extension was something that surprisingly polarised the audience,” said Mariina Hallikainen, managing director of Colossal Order, the Finnish studio behind the game.The team behind the game deny there was any overt political message, flagging that players could choose whether to make their city green or not.With an estimated three billion people playing video games at least once a year, climate campaigners have long targeted them as a potential audience.
“You have a superpower: you’re gamemakers,” Arnaud Fayolle, artistic director at publisher Ubisoft and key mover in the IGDA’s climate branch, told their conference last year.