AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Play & Learning
GOALS
Quality Education
KEYWORDS
climate change, Gamification, information
COUNTRY
United Kingdom
DESIGNED BY
Dr Anne Le Brocq
WEBSITE
http://www.iceflowsgame.com/
Ice Flows
An interactive game demonstrating the impact of climate change on the Antarctic ice sheet
The ice held in the Antarctic Ice Sheet has the potential to cause significant changes in sea level in the future, which will affect many people around the world. As a result, it is important that people have an awareness of the impact of a changing climate on the world’s ice sheets, but this complex system is difficult to understand and predict.
Ice Flows helps demonstrate how the Antarctic Ice Sheet responds to climate change in an accessible way to children and game players of all ages. The game is free to download from app stores.
The game is built on a simple representation of how ice flows in Antarctica and how it responds to changes in the environment - through changes in snowfall and ocean temperature. It allows players to impose climatic changes to control the extent of the ice sheet to guide penguins to fish; if they get it wrong, the penguin may meet its doom in the jaws of a leopard seal.