#48 - Greening the video game industry with Ben Abraham and Maria Wagner

3 billion gamers worldwide, billions of devices, terabytes of data streamed, the gaming industry comes with pretty big numbers starting with its $455 billion sales in 2023.

Is its environmental footprint as big? (Not) fun fact, not a single executive in this sector could answer the question.

A new non-profit initiative, the Sustainable Gaming Alliance, is trying to get these numbers right and to equip the industry with the right framework. Its Managing Director, Maria Wagner, and its Research and Standard lead, Dr Benjamin Abraham joined this Green IO episode where great insights were shared on:

• 👿 The periodic table of torture for gaming device,
• 🖼️ The Gaming industry dependency on graphics to boost its sales
• 🕹️ Why “this game is beautiful” should be replaced as a praise by “this game is so enjoyable”
• 📋 Why GHG protocol is not adapted to the gaming industry
• 🌋 How to shake up a multi-billions industry in 10 weeks ?
• 🔄 Why the project mode in the game industry - and elsewhere? - doesn’t help a GreenOps culture to flourish
• 😴 Energy consumption at idle state

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Learn more about our guest and connect: 

• Ben's LinkedIn
• Maria’s LinkedIn
• Green IO website 
• Gael Duez's website 
  
  

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Ben and Maria's sources and other references mentioned in this episode:

• The Sustainable Gaming Alliance Website 
• The SGA youtube channel (with recorded workshops and interviews) 
• The SGA discord channel 
• SGA - How it all started: 10 weeks to save the games industry 
• Greening the Game Industry, Ben’s newsletter
• Benjamin’s book “Digital Game after Climate Change”
• Wattwise the game jam dedicated on the energy consumption of video games
• Godot game engine
• Unreal game engine
• Digital Collage workshop
• Nature article on climate protests 
• Giovanni’s Celeste game
• Thomas Beaufils’ newsletter “Tales from the Tech”
• Signatories against gaming in Metaverse

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