Serious Games for Coastal and Marine Conservation, Management, and Adaptation
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Description | Target Audience | Language |
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What’s the Catch? | Provides players with opportunity to experience benefits of sustainable fishing practices | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students | English, Spanish |
Water Life: Rivers meet the Sea | Helps players learn about factors that produce healthy estuaries, food webs, and why estuaries are important | Elementary and secondary school students | English |
Tricky Trawling | Informs children about the impacts of unsustainable fishing practices such as seabed trawling | Elementary and secondary school students | English, Danish, Kalaallisut/Greenlandic |
Tradeoff! Best Coast Belize! | Introduces concepts related to nature’s benefits to people | Conservation and management professionals, University and graduate students | English |
The Watershed Game | Helps community leaders understand the connections between land use, clean water, and their community | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students | English |
The UVA Bay Game | Allows players to take the roles of stakeholders, make decisions about their livelihoods or regulatory authority; and see the impacts of their decisions | Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English |
The Marine Ecosystem Services Game | Promotes understanding of ecosystem service concepts through a role-playing simulation | Conservation and management professionals, University and graduate students | English |
Sustainable Delta | Enables better understanding of water systems and their related restoration and protection measures | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, General public | English |
Sand Suppletion Game | Makes players aware of the struggles involved in sand replenishment, coastal protection, nature conservation, and local economy | Conservation and management professionals | English |
ResponSEAble | Provides ocean literacy and sustainability education | General public | English |
ReefGame | Helps local fishers explore alternative and supplemental livelihoods and coral reef conservation | Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English |
Reef Stakes® | Mimics the complexity of multi-stakeholder decision-making processes and highlights threats to coral reefs | University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Port of the Future Serious Game | Supports port stakeholders and policymakers in achieving sustainable development | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English |
Pirate Fishing | Exposes players to illegal fishing trade and its negative consequences | University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Panache Expedition | Raises awareness of marine protected areas | Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Ocean Limited | Enables players to take on stakeholder roles and negotiate interests in marine resources | University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English, German |
MSP Challenge (multiple variations) | Provides a tool for building mutual understanding and communication marine spatial planning | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish |
MarePolis | Enables players to manage a marine park | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, General public | French |
Louisiana Coastal Resilience Game | Creates opportunity for people and organizations to learn and discuss coastal resiliency challenges | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English |
LittoSIM | Allows players to experiment with submersion risk management | Stakeholders | French |
In It Together | Brings stakeholders together around a map of the estuary to cooperatively explore adaptation strategies, weigh tradeoffs, and achieve greater local resilience | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, General public | English |
GPMax | Enables players to experience being a marine scientist working to protect marine mammals | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, General public | French |
Game of Floods | Teaches players about adaptation choices for sea level rise | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Fishing for the Future | Lets players explore how technology, population growth, and sustainable practices impact fish catch and fisheries management | Elementary and secondary school students | English |
FiShcope | Enables players to experience being a fisherman at sea, in port, and on shore | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students, General public | French |
Fishbanks from MIT Sloan | Allows players to learn about the challenges of managing resources sustainably in a common pool resource setting with realistic resource dynamics | Conservation and management professionals, Stakeholders, University and graduate students | English |
EcoOcean | Demonstrates problems (e.g., overfishing) associated with common pool resources to the public | University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Cards Against Calamity | Teaches stakeholders about strategies they can use to build a more resilient community | Stakeholders, University and graduate students, Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English |
Aquatico | Raises awareness about ecosystem connections | Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English, Indonesian |
Ahli Bakau | Enables players to manage mangroves | Elementary and secondary school students, General public | English, French, Indonesian |