University of Stirling

What Now?: Ecogames after Missed Climate Targets

This conference paper by Conor McKeown argues that ecogames scholarship must shift from a focus on preservation and damage limitation toward engagement with the lived realities of an already-changing climate, now that overshooting the Paris 1.5°C target is effectively acknowledged as inevitable.

• McKeown argues ecogames scholarship must shift from preservation and damage limitation toward engaging with the lived realities of an already-changing climate, since overshooting the Paris 1.5°C target is effectively acknowledged as inevitable.
• He contends that existing ecogames work remains oriented toward hopeful, forward-looking reforms of game design and industry practice and is insufficiently anchored in present climate catastrophe.
• The paper proposes that games addressing livability, citizenship, and practical adaptation should count as ecogames, with climate migration identified as the most pressing concern.