HektAR

Playful Interactive Environments

About this game

In Hectar, players take control of a small virtual farm with the aim of sustainably meeting the needs of a growing community. Resources such as land, water and labor can be used to grow various crops as well as to buy and care for animals. Topics related to food production and waste use as well as weather events due to climate change should be dealt with. Players learn about the need for agricultural products, the relationship to the climate, seasonality, soil degradation, water consumption, as well as the needs of animals and agricultural waste. At the same time, various phenomena of climate change are slowly affecting the environment through increasing production - drought and increased rainfall affect the soil and water supply, pests and diseases slow down growth, forcing players to make tough decisions.

Project partners are the Austrian Climate Alliance, the Austrian Museum of Social and Economic Affairs and the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences (research group Playful Interactive Environments). The EAT Toolbox was funded by the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism and the European Union as part of the Austrian Rural Development Program 2014-2020.