We have been working with artist Angela YT Chan to create an online narrative game about The Growing Project. The Twine game is hosted on itch.io and is a playful evaluation report focussed on the environmental benefits of the project.
Breeze, Bee, Bird, and Fungi. Character design and illustrations by Angela YT Chan, 2024.
In the narrative game you can follow the four navigators – Breeze, Bird, Bee, and Fungi – across all seven of our garden sites. The game offers an interactive way to learn all about The Growing Project’s environmental impact, from our remediation work on the Common Field site, to the planting of wild flower meadows, to the growing of native species for use in our tea blends, alongside much, much more.
The game is a simple click-through format with a soundtrack that plays throughout. The soundtrack begins on the second page, and its volume is adjustable by your device. To play the game, click the button below where you will be taken to the host website, itch.io. When on this website, you can use the expand button in the bottom-right corner of the green window at the top of the page to make the game full screen. You can press your escape key to exit full screen at any time.
To move through the narrative, scroll down on the game window and click on the hyperlinks in the text. To go backward at any point, there is a small arrow in the top right corner of the game. Some links within the game will bring you back to our website in new tabs, but the game itself will not close, so you will not lose your place in the narrative. Links will turn purple once you have clicked on them, allowing you to see which sections you have already completed. We hope you enjoy playing through.
About the Artist
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, data engineer and artist specialising in climate change. Her multidisciplinary work examines power in relation to inequity throughout the colonial and ongoing history of the climate crisis. She investigates authoritative climate communications and public perceptions in the timeline of unfolding social changes, and works to accentuate justice through counternarratives explored with videos, illustrations, writing, narrative games, workshops, creative coding and extensive collaborations in arts, technology and activism.
Angela YT Chan, image by Louise Hobson.