On the scope of the pilot process developed in Lusófona University, 10 games were developed: 7 digital games; 2 board games; and 1 game with alternative controllers. 1) Proteção de Patudos [Dog Protection] - available HERE - a digital game that seeks to draw attention to the care that should be taken with abandoned animals, taking care of them but in a way that involves the local community. 2) Wild Fire, Wild Animals - available HERE - is a digital game to draw attention to this problem through a strong approach, with a literal and activist message. It is a side-scroller game in which you command a fox to escape a fire that is relentlessly pursuing you. 3) Candy Seller - available HERE - is a game to call for attention to this reality through a game in which we play as a child selling candies in the city traffic. 4) Depressionistic - available HERE - is a visual, poetic, platform adventure based on personal texts and words from different diaries, in which the player progresses through emotions and feelings expressed typographically. 5) Cleaning Initiatives (CI) - available HERE - aims to tackle issues under the theme of life on the ocean, where a scientist created a robot to remove garbage, plastic, and other waste that is daily sent by humans to the sea. 6) Similar to the previous game, Booby Trap - available HERE - intends to draw attention to sea pollution. In this 2D, side-view, casual arcade game, player try to feed a booby seabird and escape to the increasing oil pollution on the sea. 7) Spoils of War - available HERE - is a visual novel game in which the player is involved in an emotional adventure through Heric, a son of a farmer who transports some goods to clients in a post-war world. 8) Green Money is a board game where two players face each other in a battle of interests. On one side a player runs a fossil fuel company, and on the other a company in the same energy sector but using renewable energy. 9) Corp. is also a board game, developed to relate how decent work and economic growth can interfere with the well-being of workers. 10) Guardians, was developed by a team of students that wanted to approach the creative possibilities of performative games, namely through the creation of an alternative controller game (Alt.Ctrl). It is a Co-op game, projected through a hexagonal led screen panel, where two players act as forest guardians to act over ecological events, such as fire, deforestation and illegal hunting.
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