Project name: Sea Scavenger
Description: In this game you are a scavenger who travels to beaches around the world to collect recyclable plastics to be remanufactured into useful products (and kept out of the ocean). This isn't a very realistic game, but the idea is to get the player to think about the potential value of plastic "waste."
When you started the project: Sea Scavenger is a game that was created by Code for Tucson (a Brigade of the Code for America Brigade Network, which was disbanded in 2023). Sea Scavenger is a web-based game created for The Opportunity Project in 2020. (Note that the web link may not work. It appears that The Opportunity Project domain was taken down by the Trump Administration in June 2025.) The objective of the game is to highlight the issue of ocean plastics pollution, utilizing an open dataset collected and curated by the US State Department. The team created a playable prototype in 2020, but there was a lot of work that still needed to be done to complete the game.
Personal due date: I want to have a fully functional game with improvements to the game play (to make it more fun) by the end of the jam.