Green Game Jam 2026

What is the Green Game Jam?

An annual challenge for studios who work on live games with existing audiences. Studios build into their games new content that engages players on environmental topics whilst working towards a collective goal.This year, we’re asking studios to build an activation inspired by coral reefs OR rainforests that raises funds for Oceana and the Rainforest Alliance through player engagement.

Why Rainforests?

Rainforests are essential to life on Earth. However, more than 50% of our rainforest cover has already been lost – and the Rainforest Alliance seeks to stop this by transforming the number one industry responsible: agriculture. But why are we so concerned about the rainforest?

Rainforests cool and regulate local micro-climates and limit the Earth’s reflectivity—which in turn stabilizes ocean currents, wind, and rainfall patterns.

Rainforests are one of our best natural defenses against climate change because of their capacity to absorb greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. 

Rainforest plants are used in some of the world’s most important, life-saving medicines.

Rainforests play an essential role in maintaining the Earth’s limited supply of fresh water.

<3% of the planet are covered in rainforests, yet they are home to more than half our planet’s terrestrial animal species.

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Why Coral Reefs?

Often nicknamed the “rainforests of the sea,” coral reefs are some of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth. And in the past three decades alone, 50% of coral reefs have been lost. Oceana is tackling this by working with the governments and fishers to limit the pollution and destructive fishing practices that are wiping reefs out. But why are they so important?

Despite occupying only 0.1% of the ocean floor, they are home to 25% of marine life  

If we lose coral reefs, we’ll lose up to a million aquatic species – with serious knock-on effects  

Coral reefs are the first line of defense against tropical storms for coastal communities. Up to 200 million people are currently protected as a result.  

At least  400 million people rely on coral reef fisheries for income and food – so we need to find a way to use the natural resources of reefs sustainably and responsibly.