(2023-11-10) Schroeder Viv Games Is Live

Karl Schroeder: VIV GAMES is Live! In online video games, you’ve got agency, power, and the ability to instill hope in those around you.

I’ve been working with a team of talented designers and specialists on a way to make gamers into heroes in real life. We’re coming out of stealth mode and need your help boosting our first Kickstarter campaign.

In the other realm, you’re watching a slow catastrophe unfold all around you, with seemingly no way to stop it. Habitat loss, sea-level rise, wildfires, and extinction are raging across the real world. Agency, power, and hope seem impossible here.

VIV is focused on habitat restoration and rewilding projects at a global level, but there are a lot of other benefits we can bring and a lot that we’re planning to do.

When you buy a VIV item, some of the revenue goes to a carefully audited natural restoration program.

Part of the VIV platform is a physical monitoring system (initially satellite-based) that objectively verifies the success of the regrowth you’re funding.

For any of this to happen, this campaign has to go viral.

Personally, this project is where I put my money where my mouth is. I can talk all day about speculative design and reframing worldwide issues, but what counts is action.