Student playing a video game.

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.

Smooth gradient blending purple and blue colors

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

Student Challenge Arcade

Group:
Select One
Chevron down icon.
Themes:
Select One
Chevron down icon.
Sort By:
Select One
Chevron down icon.
Clear All
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.
Hunger Defense game trailer / video walkthrough
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Hunger Defense

Junior

Hunger Defense is a game set in a post-apocalyptic world where the player has the last remaining seeds to grow crops to feed their village.

Hunger Defense
Deep Dive game trailer / video walkthrough
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Deep Dive

Junior

Deep Dive is an interactive educational game where you explore ocean life through phone apps, uncovering fun facts about coral reefs while completing a teacher’s assignment.

Deep Dive
Kairos character design
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Kairos

Junior

Kairos is a confident wildlife photographer documenting endangered species. With a self-built smart camera, she tracks threats and inspires action to protect ecosystems.

Kairos
Hullveig character design
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Hullveig

Junior

Hullveig is a nervous, soft-spoken being engineered to obey and destroy. Torn between duty and conscience, they struggle for agency, ultimately choosing to protect the rainforest they were made to erase.

Hullveig
Audrina character design
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Audrina

Junior

Audrina is a compassionate ocean guardian who helps others selflessly. Despite her orphaned past, she’s reliable, peaceful, and admired by sea life.

Audrina
Boer Derij character design
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Boer Derij

Junior

Boer is calm, logical, and unshaken in crisis. In a robotic body, he analyzes fields, projects data, and monitors crops through machines he controls.

Boer Derij
Moral Cycle playable digital game
Theme 1: Outgrow Hunger

Moral Cycle

Expert

Moral Cycle is a satirical decision game where you play a businessman making moral, immoral, or illegal choices that impact society.

Moral Cycle
Rainburn playable digital game
Theme 3: All in for Nature: Reefs & Rainforests

Rainburn

Expert

Follow Yara in the Brazilian Amazon as she faces land grabs and deforestation, using minigames and stories to teach rights, risks, and community protection.

Rainburn
To Walk Alone playable digital game
Theme 2: Own the Road

To Walk Alone

Expert

Walk home as Clara in Johannesburg, avoiding threats and managing anxiety, highlighting women’s safety and the need for better pedestrian protection.

To Walk Alone