YCYW GAME JAM 2024

Welcome to the United Nations SDG Game Jam, where creativity meets social responsibility! This competition was aimed at inspiring Grade 5 (Year 6) students to learn coding while addressing the important issues highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By using Microsoft MakeCode Arcade, students unleashed their imagination to create games that not only entertain but also educate players about sustainability and global citizenship.

These games work best on a computer.

Germ Exterminators

YCIS HK - Timothy Leung / Alexander Woo / Carrick Siu

Our game prioritises in the extermination of germs thus the name, and to win you’ll have to evade the germs that gets progressively harder, collect injections as ammo to eliminate the germs and most important of all, survive.

We chose Sustainable Development Goal Good health and well being because we want to teach children good hygiene and to persuade them that they have absolutely nothing to fear about injections.

Collecting Rubbish

YCIS HK - Jayden Zhai / Frankie Gu

Collecting the rubbish on the sea ,and don’t let shark hurt you.If you collect one rubbish you can score one point.Trying get the most point.

Clean water & sanitation. The game has a boy collect the rubbish in the sea. We want to recommend the idea of protecting the sea.

The Fisherman

YCIS HK - CHEN Tsz Yu Samantha / Zhao Hao Jia Amy

The Fisherman will collect 28 plastic bags and put them in the 6 squared black tanks. Once you collect 28 plastic bags, you will win the game.If you touch the light blue fish 3 times, you will lose 3 hearts and then lose the game.

We chose United Nation's Sustainable Development Goal 6 (clean water and sanitation). It relates to cleaning water, and not throwing rubbish in the water.

Climate Helper

YCIS HK - Katherine Ka Kei Liao / Prochia Nyantakyi Owusu Nana Asabea

In our game it’s not necessarily a physical game but instead is more of another way to show the UN goals. We instead made an animation providing a visual representation about our UN goal.

We chose Un goal 13 ( Climate Action ). Our animation represents fossil fuels being used up and it shows that while we are using fossil fuels which is harmful to the environment it heats up our planet which also effects our plants.

Save Energy

YCIS HK - Chufan Zhang / Jenica Cheuk

To win, the player needs to switch off 20 lights that will randomly spawn in the map (the light will change from Light On texture to Light Off), while a monster is chasing the player, if he catches the player, he/she loses and the game.

Responsible Consumption and Production.
We showed this goal by making the player switch off light around the map to reduce energy usage, which is a good way to reduce energy consumption in real life.

Wario Garbage Collector

YCIS HK - Sze-To Tsz To (Kaden) / Aiden Yim / Anson Peng

The rules of the game is that you have to collect as much rubbish as possible in the game and save the the animals in the ocean. The game works by collecting a lot of rubbish. By doing so, you could save the marine animals in the ocean. You win by defeating the evil human who is throwing tons of rubbish into the ocean.

We chose Life in Water as our UN goal. This UN goal links to our game because in the past years, pollution had killed a lot of marine animals. In this game, it could show you how to help fix this problem. Just collect the rubbish!

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