The Slopes

                  The social issue I addressed in this game was the idea that people aren’t taking enough care of the environment and this is a direct response to people not spending enough time outdoors. I think this is the case because if people were to spend more time with nature and become closer to it, they would grow to love it enough to want to preserve it and take care of it. The idea for this game came from a combination of a few different things. First off it came from my own personal fears of losing the winter and not being able to ski as much but also from the fear of damaging our environment. I also picked the idea of becoming one with nature from watching The Revenant which addresses a lot of issues relating to becoming one with nature and man vs. nature. Outside sources that I used when preparing for this project included an article published by NASA discussing the issue of Global climate change that can be found here, http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/. I then did research on how humans are causing this global warming and found out a lot of evidence from this website https://www.skepticalscience.com/empirical-evidence-for-global-warming.htm. Then lastly I researched how to fight global warming by researching it on Natural Resources Defense Council, http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/gsteps.asp. What I found was one of the biggest issues with global warming was that people believe global warming is an issue, no one is really doing anything about it. Although media often addresses the issue of preserving our environment, I think the audiences often chooses to do nothing and just wait around which is only making the problem worse. I addressed this problem by making those who chose to do nothing, end up down a road where they can do nothing and it drives them crazy.

                  How I got people engaged in playing this game was by relating it to something enjoyable but first making them work for it. Since they thought they eventually would be able to ski they continued to play. Although it became somewhat frustrating at times, they still would continue to play at the hopes of eventually skiing. The sad thing was that once they eventually did ski they did not have a good time because all the snow was melted. I tried to relate my own frustrations of the affects global warming has on skiing in making this game.

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