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Student Arcade

Explore the inspiring winning games and artwork from the Student Challenge Arcade, where students used creativity and coding to tackle real-world issues. These standout projects showcase the next generation of change makers turning bold ideas into interactive impact.

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Featured Winners

Abyssward playable digital game
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Abyssward

Abyssward is an underwater colony builder where players balance growth and resources while protecting fragile ocean ecosystems from environmental risks.
Abyssward
The Last Drop Cafe playable digital game
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

The Last Drop Cafe

In The Last Drop Cafe, you have 7 days to restore a bleached reef by serving customers, completing orders, and investing in real-world ecological upgrades.
The Last Drop Cafe
Shifting Baseline playable digital game
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Shifting Baseline

Shifting Baseline restores lost memories by overlaying past and present, inspired by Nyepi Laut and Buat Pa, as players rebuild degraded environments through community action.
Shifting Baseline
The Scarcity Line game.
Outplay Hunger

The Scarcity Line

Balance meals, expose the system: be the hope in a city starved by greed.
The Scarcity Line
To Turn a New Leaf game.
Nurture Yourself with Nature

To Turn a New Leaf

You left the house for an errand. You found something worth staying for.
To Turn a New Leaf

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The Botanical Bee-Man playable digital game
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

The Botanical Bee-Man

Senior

A reluctant gardener becomes Bee-Man, balancing pollination and research to restore a garden, learning how local choices support communities and vital pollinators.

The Botanical Bee-Man
Forclosed playable digital game
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Forclosed

Senior

Earn $30,000 before foreclosure by merging plants, learning crop recipes and the importance of community through objectives and character interactions.

Forclosed
Harvesting Horizons tabletop game
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Harvesting Horizons

Senior

A co-op RPG board game where players grow a town, manage food, and balance expansion with sustainability, avoiding disasters to keep the community alive.

Harvesting Horizons
FOCUS: Eyes on the Road! playable digital game
Theme 2: Own the Road

FOCUS: Eyes on the Road!

Senior

Cross a busy road while dismissing phone distractions, balancing focus and awareness to stay safe and experience the real risks of divided attention.

FOCUS: Eyes on the Road!
Traffic Control playable digital game
Theme 2: Own the Road

Traffic Control

Senior

Traffic Control is a strategy game where players place road signs to manage flow, prevent crashes, and learn how real-world traffic systems ensure safety.

Traffic Control
Rootbound playable digital game
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Rootbound

Senior

Revive a collapsed city by rebuilding food systems, learning supply chains, local agriculture, and sustainable growth through an educational city-building experience.

Rootbound
Cavendish playable digital game
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Cavendish

Senior

Cavendish is a pixel platformer where a sailor balances rainforest and city life, promoting sustainability, ecotourism, and harmony between humans and nature.

Cavendish
Rootbound game trailer / video walkthrough
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Rootbound

Senior

Rootbound is an educational city builder where you revive a collapsed city, learning supply chains, local agriculture, and ecology through rebuilding homes, farms, and sustainable systems.

Rootbound
Sacrilege of Skov game trailer / video walkthrough
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Sacrilege of Skov

Senior

The Sacrilege of Skov is a visual novel where Adrasteia helps fairies and wildlife complete tasks to save a threatened magical rainforest.

Sacrilege of Skov