Plastic Paradise

During our attendance at the Impact Jam 2018, we met a lot of important and creative people from the film, game and media industry. We listened to talks from Amy Kalson from Sybo Games talking about crafting the future of technology with deep thought and care, Milan and Dario - creators of the VR tool for immersive storytelling  AnimVR, and many others.

We also managed to join other creatives to create the game Plastic Paradise, a good contestant to our other game OctoTrash. Following the same theme of "Mind the Ocean", Plastic Paradise aimed to be a game with a great story that could be easily shared on social media to grab people's awareness on the problem of plastic pollution.

In Plastic Paradise, the player was set to be a plastic bottle that has to swim through the ocean without getting caught by the boat cleaning up plastic from the ocean. On its way to the paradise, the plastic bottle meets fishnets, and in order to go through, it has to decompose in small pieces. However when it decomposes, it has to be careful, so it does not get eaten by sea animals. On its way to the paradise - a huge plastic island, the plastic has three chances, and once used up before reaching the paradise, the game starts from beginning, racing through the ocean again.

Playing the Plastic Paradise makes you wonder how long a journey plastic can manage to travel through damaging the ocean life and how impossible it can be to get rid of. As a player you are put on this journey to understand the problem of ocean pollution and the long lifetime of plastic decomposition, which is dangerous for the nature. Our intention with the game was easy distribution and a great story that could touch millions online. Here is a picture with the team behind Plastic Paradise, starting with Rovango's very own Denisa, Antione, Morten, Heleno.