17-9: Painting A Sustainable Future

The idea: 

Climate change, poverty and hunger, flight and migration … Whoa. Seriously. Quite a lot to tackle. Luckily, some people have already thought about these challenges and have come up with an agenda to tackle them. Wohoooo! The agenda is called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and there are only 9 years left to achieve them.

Time to get active and design tomorrow! But what does that future look like? How would you resolve contradictions between the SDGs, and what issue matters more to you? 

You get to decide between tricky options. Each option is associated with one of the amazing goals and its respective colour.

This way you will draw your future through the power of your decisions. 

Finally, you can share your world captured on a canvas with your friends and let them know why your world is amazing! 

Excited? Come and draw with us! 

How to play the game

• Select a canvas style. 

• Select a brush style. 

• Answer the questions and view your results for the round. 

• Complete all 17 SDG rounds to piece together the entire painting. 

• Share your painting with your friends, reexamine your responses or start over!

Future release ideas 

Social

• Social sharing options via WhatsApp/Instagram/Facebook with the image of the painting and a link to play the game.

Features

• Gallery mode to view other players' paintings and compare answers.
• Co-op mode where you answer questions simultaneously and the average of the combined answers determine what colour is used on the canvas.
• Submissions button where players of the game can submit scenarios of their own and challenge their friends to play the game (moderation from devs/partners required).
• A gallery for influential figures such as heads of state and notable personalities, and how their paintings look next to yours.
• Stats for comparison of answers with other players around the world.
• More brushes, more randomisation and more options to link research and reports to scenarios. 
• A more detailed playthrough stats view, where players can inspect different parts of their painting to see what choices led to it, and how it compares to other players.

Possible Monetization 

• Each playthrough can reward players with coins. After accumulating a certain number of coins, the players can purchase premium locked brushes. Premium brushes will result in much more varied paintings, and encourage players to explore more SDGs.
• Players can also use coins obtained in-game to unlock detailed statistics of any player, such as how often they chose a particular path on their playthroughs.

The Team

• Design: 

• Barbara "Bob" Voss 

• Development: 

• Victor Salamanca Cabrera Koch
• Lisa Keil

• Story: 

• Shaer Reaz
• Tabio Romanski
• Nora Ziegler