CRACT!

…the slightly silly but surprisingly useful card game for critical thinking and creative action.

Developed by Thought Den with the Natural History Museum of Utah, CRACT! gets teenagers talking about climate change in a playful, productive, non-scary(!) way. Tackling big challenges with big thinking and heaps of imagination.

Thought Den brought me in to join a handful of play testing sessions, as well as to write the copy for prototypes of the game – including the final card deck.

Here’s a quick how to play video.

And just for fun – here are a few lines that were a little too silly to make the cut…

Business Cat says this is bad for stonks!

Mercury is in retrograde. Misfortune. Misfortune everywhere!

Zucchini apocalypse – everybody run!!!