Links
A downloadable game
The stability of the country is slowly crumbling. To turn things around, a Citizen Council has been erected, and you’ve been chosen to participate in it! Place tiles to support certain policies and see how Life Events and Climate Crisis can shift your perspective. Which strategy will you choose and how many lines will be crossed?
Links is a narrative-driven analogue game exploring how social, environmental, economic, and cultural forces collide in the age of the climate crisis. The game challenges players to move beyond individualism and into systems thinking, but it highlights how individualism leads to complex and complicated climate-policy outcomes. Through policy play, crises, and life events, it reveals how privilege, ideology, and lived experience shape collective futures. Rather than preaching solutions, it creates space for confrontation, imagination, and empathy—inviting participants to question not just what we do about climate change, but who we are within it.
Links was made as part of the Mzansi Climate Justice Game Jam, which took place in June of 2025.
Interested in learning more about Links? You can find more information over on our companion website.
Creators team:
Concept: Aengus Schulte, Luciane Fortes, Mariska Lamiaud, Poorvi Garag
Game Mechanics: Aengus Schulte
Game Art & Design: Mariska Lamiaud
Narrative elements & Storytelling: Luciane Fortes, Poorvi Garag
Website: Poorvi Garag
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Install instructions
Print the game on A4, double-sided from the long side, full color, on the thickest paper you have available.
Add a touch of fanciness by rounding the corners of the cards (corner rounder 4mm recommended!). You can round the corners of all cards, except Policy Tiles and Crisis Tiles, they need to stay square.
If you don’t want to use the full set of Reference Cards that can accommodate 6 players, but 1 big Reference sheet instead, do not print the last 5 pages of the game PDF.
It is not necessary to print the rulebook.
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