A process full of challenges: A serious game about the German energy transition

The implementation of the german energy transition (Energiewende) is unclear in its configuration and timeframe. The future of the transition depends on more than factors such as technological development, economic feasibility and political framing. Rather, maintaining a positive attitude by society and its understanding is significant. Therefore, effectively communicating the complex process of energy transition is essenial. For preserving the variety of aspects and the multitude of perspectives in this open process we choose the format of a seriousgame. We explain why we think developing seriousgames can be an appropriate tool for that purpose. Contrary to existing games on that topic, we focused on motives, attitudes and the implications in a world full of contradictions and caprices in everydaylife. We created an innovative Adventure, which focusses on the energytransition. This topic represents a challenge because it bears complex interrelations (technical,political,social) and strong polarization in debate. In order to achieve a compelling game experience as well as a learning outcome, we use a set of characters to represent different attitudes. While dealing with job-related and day‐to-day tasks, the characters run into the dilemma of foiling their commitment to sustainability. In the quest of a balance between consumption and happiness, they have to make energy-aware decisions and ooperate with eachother.     «

The implementation of the german energy transition (Energiewende) is unclear in its configuration and timeframe. The future of the transition depends on more than factors such as technological development, economic feasibility and political framing. Rather, maintaining a positive attitude by society and its understanding is significant. Therefore, effectively communicating the complex process of energy transition is essenial. For preserving the variety of aspects and the multitude of perspective...     »