Coming SOON!

Anthropocenes — a cooperative table top game

Anthropocenes is a cooperative tabletop game about humanity’s environmental footprint and the connection between local and global issues and actions. Players work together at local and global scales to address social, economic, environmental, and political challenges. Players win when they balance local and global needs and before they run out of time to halt runaway climate change.

Developers

Jason M. Kelly, Indiana University Indianapolis

Fiona P. McDonald, UBC, Okanagan

Design Team

Alex Custodio, Concordia University

Myron Campbell, UBC, Okanagan

Interested in Playing or SUPPORTING?

Anthropocenes has completed the first phases of play testing, and it is now being peer reviewed. We will continue play testing the game during the peer review period. If you are interested in using Anthropocenes in your classroom, a partnership, or learning more about how to support the game, please contact fiona.mcdonald@ubc.ca

Presentations

Gaming The Anthropocenes—thinking through games. Royal Anthropological Institute (12 November 2025), therai.org.uk/events/anthropology-of-play-and-games-gaming-the-anthropocene/.

Anthropocenes: A Cooperative Environmental Learning Game,” GenCon (31 July 2024), https://www.gencon.com/events/254138.

Support

Support for Anthropocenes has been provided by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Indiana University Research. the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute, and the Collaborative & Experimental Ethnography Lab (CE2 Lab) at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.