Environmental protection in the gaming

Green Male Gaming is a British-based online computer game merchant, representative and publisher. It has a multi-platform catalogue of 9,000+ games from greater than 1,350 authors, offering games in 195 countries through over 140 settlement systems, in 18 currencies. 90% of its earnings is generated from outside the UK.Green Guy Gaming s Posting department allows independent computer game workshops choose a combination of solutions for posting.

The German Games industry boomes. According to the recent market data of the Consumer Research Company alone, in the German play market in the first six months of 2021 by games, hardware and play-related services, sales of 4.6 billion. Euro generates - an increase of 22 percent compared to the previous year. The chances that the German industry is the sales record of 2020 - at that time it was 8.5 billion euros \ - overflowing, are pretty good. But also globally considered are the future prospects of rosy, despite the small Corona delle in 2021.

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1st page 1 environmental protection in video games, page 1 1. 1.1Cirst rising power hunger 2. 1.2Highend graphics card and cloud gaming: the climate-making children? 3. 1.3 Playing for the planet provides fresh ideas 4. 1.4The Green Game-Jam winner comes from Germany 2. Page 2 environmental protection in video games, page 2 1. 2.1Foring is high in the course 2. 2.2umwelt topics: often retrofitted by Add-on 3. 2.3 Outlook: Every single one is in demand 3rd page 3 picture gallery for Environmental protection in the gaming industry: a brand new topic

Thus, the researchers of the market research portal Newzoo forecasting 2023 worldwide sales by the game industry is expected to be just over $ 200 billion. Growth Motor in the background is a gaming community that has already grown to 3.22 billion players and players. In other words, one goes out until 2023 out of eight billion of earth dwellers, then almost over 40 percent of them will deal with in one or the other form with computer and video games.

Constantly rising power hunger

In the Sims 4: Sustainable Life is the name program: As a citizen of Evergreen Harbor, your task consists in making the neighborhood resident of waste mountains and smog. Source: Maxis / Electronic Arts With this hardly to be braked growth, however, numerous challenges go, especially with regard to the environmental protection problem. Because who wants to experience digital games, needs hardware - and their power consumption has increased massively in the last 40 years. For example, take a study of the electricity provider EON as the basis that requires a daily playing time of two hours, then Sony s first PlayStation published in 1994 per year 5.84 kWh power. At the PS2 started in 2000, it is already 17 kWh (under the same conditions), and in the PS3 from 2006, the value even highlights at 137 kWh - the approximately 37.5 times what a super nintendo ( 3.65 kWh) consumed from 1990 per year! In the Microsoft camp, the development is similar: while the first Xbox 46.72 swallows KWh per year, the Xbox 360 is already 125.56 kWh.

Radiation, sandstorms, radioactive rain: Which dramatic consequences would have a nuclear catastrophe on the environment, will be discussed in the PostAapokalyptic Staufpiel Endzone: a world apart. Source: Gentlymad Studios Only with the appearing of PS4 and Xbox One go back the values ​​back, only to increase with the release of the hardware new editions. Specifically, while a PS4 Slim is content in the EON example with 62.05 kWh a year, the PS4 Pro with 119.72 kWh is almost twice as much. At Microsoft, 87.6 kWh (Xbox One) is 124.1 kWh (Xbox One X) opposite. Eon based on a total electricity price of 29 cents per kilowatt hours and calculated for the past top models of Sony and Microsoft annual costs of 34 (PS4 pro) and 36 euros (Xbox One X). Far off - and this is positive in this case - is the Nintendo Switch. Here, the power consumption in the EON evaluation amounts to just 11 kWh per year, which corresponds to electricity costs of three euros.

And what about the new console generation, say PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X? Since the devices were not yet on the market at the time of the EON study, they are not listed there. However, look at other evaluations, such as those of ClimateAktiv.at, which also calculate with two hours of playing time a day, then the chambers with the new consoles unfortunately did not decline.

In the online survival game Eco by Strange Loop Games, an asteroid threatens to wipe out the earth. To prevent the catastrophe, players must build a civilization together and research research. To preserve the ecological balance in the game world, has top priority. Source: Strange Loop Games On the contrary: The PS5 places 33.28 kWh compared to the PS4 Pro and comes under the bottom line to 153 kWh. For the Xbox Series X, it is 146 kWh - 21.9 kWh more than with the Xbox Series X. Only the significantly powerful Xbox Series S, whose power consumption is only 88 watts, decreases significantly with 64 kWh. All these values ​​do not mind them exclusively on the respective console and do not take into account the power consumption of also playing important devices as well as the (4K) flat screen TV, the sound system and the Internet router.

Highend Graphics Card and Cloud Gaming: The Climate Conversely Children?

Away: The Survival Series (Release: September 28, 2021) sees itself as a natural document for playing. Hero of the graphic attractive 3D adventure is a short-head sliding bag. Source: Breaking Walls is still choker, however, the topic is when you call the power consumption of modern gaming PCs with high-end graphics card, such as a GeForce RTX 3080 in mind. The latter alone attracts 330 watts in demanding titles, which - again, again, taking into account two hours of playing time per day - a consumption of about 255 kWh would be consumed. If one now expects the consumption of CPU, memory, hard disk, SSD, and other typical PC components, a such gaming PC usually knacks the mark of 300 kWh - and thus causes about 120 kg of CO2. Almost twice as much as an Xbox Series X.

The end of the flagpine is thus still not achieved. So more and more often the rumors that Nvidia s next high-end graphics card generation probably needs 400 watts and more performance. It looks similar to the upcoming competition models of AMD. Whether that applies in the end will probably only show from mid 2022. However, the emerging trend clearly shows upwards and thus made of climate view in the wrong direction.

For every Save the World Edition sold by EndZone: A World Apart makes Assemble Entertainment plant a tree. The different plant certificates presents the Publisher from Wiesbaden proud of the Steam product page. Source: Assemble Entertainment Another eco-problem case is cloud-gaming - and the same in doubt. On the one hand, because games streaming services are constantly not to be underestimated data volumes. For example, one hour of full HD gaming via GeForce Now devours between four and ten gigabytes per hour depending on the game. In 4K resolution with Google Stadia even up to 20 GB are possible. With a cozy Zock weekend with friends there comes a lot of data together! Although cloud-gaming has not prevailed. However, if this happens in the long run, the pressure on telecommunications providers is likely to massively grow their infrastructure, immense.

Do not be disregarded in the data volume discussion as well as the change in the digital purchase and services as well as Microsoft s Game Pass. Both have massively driven the number of game-related downloads in recent years.

Glowing Serious Game: In the free Steam Puzzle Platricmer Plasticity, the young Noa takes a way through its shot home. Source: Plasticity Games but back to cloud gaming. This also requires modern, geographically clever server farms with appropriately powerful hardware, requiring constant cooling. Data centers are like factories: Electricity and water go purely, data and heat come out , says Aaron Wemhoff, head of the Center for Energy-Smart Electronic Systems (ES2) at Villanova University over Wired.com. Accordingly, it is not surprised that a research team at the University of California has meanwhile been able to prove that cloud gaming consumes more energy per hour than local gaming. Not only: In the study published in 2019 in the The Computer Games Journal, the researchers estimate the power consumption of all US gaming households and platforms together 34 terawatt hours electricity - more than enough to supply the entire US Bundestaat West Virginia with energy Being! If you now take the resulting amount of greenhouse emissions in the focus, you would come to the CO2 emissions of five million vehicles.

Playing for the planet provides fresh ideas

How does terraforming affect Mars? What are the consequences of high greenhouse emissions for the quality of the floors of the planet? These challenges of future generations are to be mastered in Surviving Mars: Green Planet to master. Source: Haemimont Games No question, with regard to the CO2 balance that caused by it, the game industry is in front of immense responsibility. However, a responsibility that many in the industry are more likely to become more and more conscious and now trying to pass improvements and changes in their ways. Probably the most prominent example of this just taking rethinking listens to the name Playing for the planet . What is meant by the United Nations Environment United Nations Environmental Program from companies that want to advance environmental protection and engage in a variety of ways. The bandwidth ranges from the reduction of emissions and plastic waste via afforestation programs to the integration of environmental topics into the own Games portfolio.

Who wants to become a member of Playing for the Planet, however, must first enter different commitments. The first is to write a formal letter to the United Nations, who explains and executes the own intentions and executes in detail. Secondly, participants undertake to assist all corporate levels for assisting and raising colleagues for the topic. Furthermore, the members comply with learned - if it is not more sensitive information - to share with others, to participate in workgroups and to evaluate and update their own goals once a year.

The Multiformat Puzzle Platformer Never Alone (2014) playable in the co-op created in close cooperation with the natives of Alaska and is intended to sensitize players for the concerns and environmental challenges of these people. Source: Upper One Games / E-Line Medua Although Playing for the Planet was launched in September 2019, many Big Players are already on board, including Google, Microsoft, Sony and Ubisoft. Beautiful: The declarations of intent of the participants can be found directly on the website and sound quite promising. For example, Microsoft plans to be climatic neutral up to 2030 to reduce the emissions of supply chains to up to 55 percent at the same time and to inspire gamers through a minecraft initiative for sustainability projects. The latter listens to the name Build a Better World and challenges students and students, alone or in the team to put their own small environmental game with the help of the Minecraft: Education Edition to the legs.

At competitor Sony, CO2 reductions are highly in the course through optimized energy saving measures. On the PS4, 17.5 million tonnes of CO2 (as of September 24, 2020) were already saved. Total 30 million are targeted by 2030, which should be possible to create. It is proud of Sony also to the standby mode of the PS5, which consumes on average between 0.2 and 3 watts (at the PS4 it is about 14 watts) and two each with the help of Dreams-realized content projects. The first is a 5-minute VR video, which explains spectators what their own carbon footprint is at all and what personal activities - from breakfast to office work to vacation flight - especially in height. Unfortunately, you can not start the very instructive game Meet Your Carbon Footprint directly in Dreams, but probably admire on YouTube as a 360 degree video.

Gathering Storm, the second extension to Sid Meier s Civilization 6, moves out volcanic eruptions, floods, storms, droughts and other natural disasters in focus. In contrast, one can in many cases (but not all) through the use of renewable energies. Source: Firaxy Games, on the other hand, Dreams-suitable is Pick Up Quick! Developed in collaboration with the New Zealand Charity Organization Sustainable CoastLines, it flips along two subsequent stalls to mountainless residual waste. Sony s contribution is rounded off by a clearly structured website that brings and summarizes the company s commitment.

But also the confessions of other companies make curious. For example, the British Online Games Sales Green Man Gaming wants to plant so many trees for the name - by 2030 that 324,000 tonnes of CO2 can be absorbed. Unity, in turn, is currently working with other alliance participants in a study that would like to find out how Ingame content can cause changes in real world behavior. At the same time, the approximately 1800 man strong engine provider as an organizer of the Green Game Jam occurs, an annual creative competition, where many of the playing-for-the planet members participate. The Objective 2021 was to think new modes or activities already available for already available or developed in development - this time with reference to the climate discussion important forests.

The Green Game-Jam winner comes from Germany

The winner of this year s Green Game Jan was now Ubisoft Mainz, more precisely a coming game mode in her strategy-permanent burner Anno 1800. The independent game variant should appear on December 14, 2021 and follow a concept that the Anno fan is already opposing. Accordingly, one starts on a natural island with low population and has the task of creating a sustainable city. However, the ecosystem of the Eiland is extremely fragile, which is why fast growth can mean collapse.

For example, if you pick up forests in the record pace, you do not have to be surprised if the inhabitants leave their homeland at some point. But the cultivation of monocultures leads to nothing good, but in this case rather to a significant worse ground quality. Caution is also offered for overfishing, because it ensures that oceans will no longer be available as a food source later.

Additional appeal Available by a kind of rogue-like twist, which the developers describe as follows: Unlike in the real world, you will be able to try again and improve your previous attempts. Not only with the Knowledge of this last attempt, but also with technological improvements that you can explore and remain unlocked after a single activation for all future attempts.

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