The games will engage players in a series of scenario-driven events that introduce realistic ecologic, economic, and social challenges brought or exacerbated by climate change. Critical mission essentials including energy, food security, clean potable water, emergency management, disaster relief, and economy will determine whether the players’ community and region trends toward extreme vulnerability, resilience and sustainability, or some other dynamic state in-between. The mission driven game scenarios are introduced into the game’s time scape, probing participants’ response from a set of pre-determined game structure and rules.

A C2 game clock, along with a set of other indicators are constantly in view of the players, showing if they are in: i) a livable state of climate equilibrium and general social, ecological and technological resilience and well-being (Prosperity); ii) significant losses (Disasters); iii) catastrophic losses and societal collapse (Catastrophes & Collapses); or, iv) ongoing and unstoppable negative feedbacks and cascades leading to mass extinction (Extinction).

The game scenarios will be designed to express the challenges of any community that needs to change behavior quickly. The clock “rolls forward” at a faster speed when the game algorithms recognizes that the player, player’s associates, and the society in which they live are not learning what is required to stabilize the global temperatures. Setting the global average temperature goal of the planet is a decision made at the beginning of the game and it can be adjusted from time to time by agreement of players.