The Game of Life Reimagined
a cooperative online board game where players build a collective vision of a just and sustainable world on the timeline of the climate clock.
what is life reimagined?
Life Reimagined (LR) parodies the original Game of LIFE to question its vision of life goals (make as much money as possible), and offer an appropriate alternative for our historic moment, based on existing climate justice visions (like the Green New Deal).
LR aims to help everyday people turn climate anxiety into effective climate action, so we can democratically lead a justice-based transition on the timeline of the climate clock (cutting emissions in half by 2030).
why life reimagined?
The climate crisis is intimately connected to many other long standing justice struggles. The causes - and solutions - are often the same:
We must facilitate rapid culture shift from a dominance-based logic to a caregiving-based logic - for people and planet - at every level.
We have to cut emissions in half by 2030 (in 7 years) to avoid the worst aspects of climate chaos.
It’s nearly - but not totally - impossible.
The only unknown variable in whether we achieve a justice-based transition in time is mass movement.
Photo by Adem Wijewickrema
According to Erica Chenoweth,
“No movement has ever failed if it won the active and sustained participation of at least 3.5% of the population.”
Therefore, we hope to reach people, inspire hope, improve self efficacy, learn and practice impactful actions, and work together.
PLAY current version 2.0
Click here to play our current version on a computer locally (pass and play, or single player for all characters).
Our next version 3.0 should be accessible online, as single-player, pass and play, or play with friends with a code, and mobile-friendly.
This is Life Reimagined in its current version 2.0, with many updates planned. See how you can help below.
Next version 3.0 coming soon
We are currently working on version 3.0 of the Game of Life Reimagined and we’d love your help!
This is the Game of LIFE 2 (online app): play it to see where we’re getting some inspiration for game mechanics.
game goals for 3.0
Players cooperatively sacrifice and strategize to earn the most SSSweet Life Points (Self, Society, and Sustainability).
Players fill in the social floor (Society) and ecological ceiling (Sustainability) and maintain some personal health (Self) to keep humanity in the safe zone of the doughnut in Doughnut Economics (see below).
Players win all they can with their choices to achieve the best transition by 2030.
doughnut economics model
This model is our inspiration for how to visually depict the game goals, points, and pathway.
Players turn the categories from red to blue.
how to play next version 3.0
Choose your character.
2. Choose your Green New Deal job.
3. Spin to move.
4. Make choices in each space you land on.
5. Spin high to magnify your impact.
6. Collect tactics or “tools” for your toolbelt.
7. Use tools and make sacrifices together to unlock Movement Moments to multiply your impact.
8. Review your impact and progress at the end.
9. Take game actions in real life to earn rewards in the game.
the Team
Be the Green is part of the Life Reimagined Collaborative (LRC), along with EarthGames and Art of the Green New Deal.
We are a democratic, grassroots volunteer collaboration that is creating the game together.
Join us on Zoom every Tuesday 5pm PT / 8pm ET or on our discord server to help us finish making the next version of the game to be Beta tested by Earth Week 2023 (April 16-22).
We’d love to add you to the team!
See below for ways to help!
Join us!
HOw to help life Reimagined
CHAT. Schedule a one-on-one meeting with us via @BeTheGreenUS on twitter or instagram.
JOIN. We meet every Tuesday 5pmPT/8pmET via Zoom meetings (just give us a heads up).
INVEST. Review our business plan and game dev plan. Donate to help finish the game.
DEVELOP. Help write, code, design, art, animation, QA, marketing, etc. (see discord).
PARTNER. We need help! See our coalition wishlist in our game dev plan.
Learn More
Illustrated Feature for more game history
Disclaimer:
This game is under Fair Use. It is non-profit in nature, and being created for the purposes of teaching, comment, criticism, parody, news reporting, scholarship and research. Copyright Disclaimer under Section 107 of the Copyright Act in 1976; Allowance is made for “Fair Use for purposes such as criticism, comment, parody, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair Use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might be otherwise infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. All rights and credit go directly to rightful owners. No copyright infringement is intended.