Narrative game designer Inari Bourguenolle has been on an ecological journey ever since she first played Final Fantasy VII. Incidentally, our host Hugo Bille has recently obsessed quite a bit over the climate stories embedded in this classic game and especially its recent remake. Their conversation takes us to toxic masculinity, gender roles, individualism and the monomyth, and begins to grapple with how they all exacerbate the climate and environmental crises.

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Hugo's article, Those Who Fight Further: FF7 and the Climate Crisis, can be found on Gamasutra:

Inari mentioned The Forge which was a community for tabletop RPG design overseen by designer Ron Edwards. It was active from 1999 to 2012

Join the conversation in the IGDA Climate SIG. Hop in the discord: