Dragon Dad

Your strict dragon father has chores for you.  Spoiler alert: no matter how well you do, he’ll never be satisfied.  Complete each minigame as fast as you can, but they’re going to get harder and harder until you leave your father disappointed.

Dragon Dad is part of a project to combat climate change.  Some of the minigames promote high-impact personal actions players can do to be more sustainable, like biking instead of driving.  These minigames are less than half of the games in Dragon Dad and are intermixed with minigames that are “just for fun.” Our researcher has found that this intermixing method is actually more effective at changing attitudes than if the game was 100% climate-related games.

Initial research suggests that Dragon Dad increases players’ feelings of personal agency over the changing climate and behaviors they can take to reduce climate change.