Climate Chronicles

What it does

The app is a choose your own adventure game designed to teach players about climate change and how to reduce their effects on it. The details of the story’s main characters can be edited to generate a personalized and compelling experience. The player and Gemini then collaborate to write a short story of three chapters with about 10 parts. The app is built for Flutter Web. Gemini 1.5 Pro is using an Open API Schema to structure the output. Gemini generates parts of the story along with 2 choices. This is processed into objects using several models and formatted for display. The player chooses one of them which is sent back to Gemini to continue the narrative along with further guidance on how to continue the story.
The project is aimed at all adults 18 and over across the globe who have internet access. According to a report by the UN, with current policies in place, by the end of this century we will experience a temperature increase of 2.5+ degrees celsius. This will be catastrophic for all life on earth. During game play a series of actions that can be taken by the player are revealed. These can be added to a goals list saved to Firestore to be completed at a later time. Setting and planning goals is known to be a key factor in success. The app also mentions tips that have been found to be effective in the psychology of goal setting to help the player develop a strategy to achieve these goals. This is an important step in tackling the problem to reduce emissions.