ECO Act

Project Description

Experience a unique premise in this visual novel focused around our ecosystem crisis.

Explore the moral decisions that come with having an active roll in eco activism as well as their consequences.

A serious game aimed at giving a narrative experience through the many steps of activism.

Mission

Put a young person in the shoes of their peer who is torn between two worlds: “business as usual” and "eco-activism". 

There is always a second chance – until you cross the line of no return.

Game Details

• Text-based Narrative

• Linear (with variables that affect the ending)

• Target group: young adults

Story Outline

Marty Bretton is an intelligent young individual with a good life and a new job. Yet, the eco-anxiety about the Planet rushing towards its end and the frustration with the slowness of environmental processes forces Marty to make ethical choices that carry increasingly severe consequences – until crossing the line of no return.

The final outcome from Marty's choices can be

• HERO's rewarding sacrifice, 
• FOOL's desperate radical action 
• LOSER drowning into the personal Hell of regrets:  “Why didn’t I do more?”

Team

• Afonso Cunha
• António Rodrigues
• Carolina Martins
• Eeva R. Tikka
• Júlia Costa
• Larissa Barbosa Curi
• Micaela Fonseca
• Pia Tikka
• Phil Lopes
• Thomas Bjrønsten
• Triinu Jesmin

Lusófona University Portugal 

Tallin University Estonia

VIA University College Denmark 

funded by FilmEU