Our project is developing policy recommendations to unlock the potential of the game industries to drive societal change. We are creating leading-edge carbon accounting tools for both analogue and video game production and will provide carbon literacy training for game developers. Our research goals therefore align with those of the Playing for the Planet alliance.

On April 30th 2025, the Utrecht Gamelab and the Manchester Game Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University collaborated on a first-of-its-kind hybrid three-hour co-design workshop. Developed as part of ongoing research within Work Package 6 (Hacking Games) of the STRATEGIES project, the session built on the work of Chloe Germaine and Paul Wake on ‘game hacking’ and the ‘franchise hacking’ technique.

Researchers at the University of Aukland are designing a toolkit to support desirable and sustainable futures aesthetics in games, and they need your help!
If you are a game art director, artist or otherwise involved in game visuals, aesthetics and worldbuilding, please consider completing their short survey.

We’re thrilled to share that Sonia, our WP2 lead on STRATEGIES, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Sustainable Games Alliance (SGA).

The SGA brings together developers, studios and organisations committed to creating a more sustainable games industry — from reducing emissions in development to improving standards and transparency across the board.

How can Europe's game developers navigate the rapidly changing political landscape, meet the new sustainability regulations, and create real impact with and through their games? We are a proud founding member of the Sustainable Games Alliance and have been working collaboratively with them in their efforts to develop an industry-wide standard for emissions accounting and sustainability reporting.

In the newest issue of KIJK magazine, Joost Raessens - our project coordinatpr here at STRATEGIES - is interviewed on his work in the area of games and sustainability.