Day Zero: Solarpunk Jam Games announces the winners of Game Jam

Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions and Anima Interactive announced the winners of the JAM, Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam.

Among nearly 200 participants from 35 countries, Solar Salvage, a game of building and exploring cars created by only three developers: Nattland Inactive in Sweden and 707 Heaven in Norway, won the grand prize of $ 10,000.

The final qualifiers include: Banyu, the comfortable sailing and absorption game developed by Hotfix Labs, a team from Indonesia; Sky Patch, which is a 3D agricultural platform and a puzzle adventure where players must revitalize the calm, floating islands, developed by Null Jam Games, an international team.

The winning matches will be shown during the Green Games at the Summer Games Festival, where it was broadcast on June 7 at 1 pm Pacific time, with a highlight of the next generation of creators who realize the climate.

“You can feel the desire for honest and optimistic games in Solarpunk Jam,” Dan Zbarskiki, head of games at the Day Zero Productions, said in a statement. “Teams from Indonesia, South Africa, Norway, Colombia and beyond dealt with, not only as aesthetic, but as support to involve the climate crisis with hope and creativity. We are excited to be in a conversation with our winner and final visas about the place they want to take their projects, and to continue to build events preserved on society such as the armed educator.”

Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam was launched on Earth Day, April 22, 2025, and ran until May 10, 2025, which represents a challenge to create preliminary models for Solarpung video games – a growing literary and visual movement that acts with radical optimism, environmental supervision, and social fairness.

“SolaPunk is still a somewhat emerging movement, and this game has helped push the movement forward, showing how video games can bring its example to life,” Carla Reyes, founder and creative director at Anima Interactive. “Games provide a unique fertile ground to explore the complications of climate justice, the elasticity of society, and the brighter futures – through narration, systems, aesthetics and active players.

The jam was carried out by Cinereach, a story laboratory behind famous films such as Marcel The Shell with Wild Southern Wild and Carmack Collective, a box that supports stimulating transformational change in seeking climate justice.

Before the game jam, the participants received a narrative scheme developed by Cinereach in cooperation with Good Energy, providing climate research and storytelling stories designed with inputs of scientists and front lines societies.

“We are very admired how the wonderful gaming developers are to explain these extended narratives to imagine new worlds reckless and renewed in the face of climate change,” Kandis McFarlen, Cinreach’s chief official in Cinereach, said in a statement. “These creators have brought visions of life in exciting and inspiring ways that show games that have the ability to help form our future while we are happy to play. We are incredibly proud to link these projects alongside Day Zero and Anima.”

Through global participation, cultural cooperation and strong story novel, the results of the Day Zero games: prove the growing delicious SolaPunk Jam games that challenge the country’s hardship with beauty, joy and environmental imagination.

Watch the winners at Green Game Green Games on June 7 at 1 pm Pacific time and explore the full range of presentations on ITCH.IO.

Day Zero Productions is a joint project between Trevor Noah and Paramount Global. The Games Department is closely cooperating with the company’s film and television projects to take a 360 -degree approach to telling stories. In addition to transit media initiatives, DZP produces original interactive experiences such as Jokenite with epic games, and supports the broader industry through strategic investments, including the seeds tour of Midsummer studios, founded by Firaxis Veteran and Xcom Creator Jake Solomon.

Anima Interactive is a new, socially conscious, independent games and an overwhelming media studio that blends art and technology to ignite positive cultural change. We are currently developing, we take us north, a narrative adventure that overwhelms the players on the trips of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the border between the United States and Mexico. Learn more about www.anima-trtestive.com.

Cinereach is a non -profit story laboratory that progresses stories that cause curiosity, sympathy and agency. We are working to revolutionize the narration process, improve how to make and consume stories, and fill the gap between the novel of social stories and entertainment in films, television and emerging media. Cinereach was originally founded in 2006 as the Production Foundation and Film Company, and it has supported more than 200 popular and famous films, including the Academy Award for Best Photo Monsters in South Wilde and Marcel The Shell with shoes. Learn more about Cinereach.org.

With an annual budget for granting grants about $ 1.5 million, Carmack Collecntive focuses on two basic strategies: building movement and changing culture. The Fund supports front lines organizations and cultural initiatives that challenge the dominance of the fossil fuel industry, with the aim of transforming accounts and enabling the most affected societies of environmental injustice. While emphasizing transparency and energy exchange, the collective employs confidence -based charitable practices, including multi -year and unrestricted application requirements, to ensure that resources are allocated effectively and equally.