Save the Future

Save the Future is a simulation game, where players make choices about industrial investments, international trade, social development, and environmental management, balancing their own short-term goals with long-term consequences on their country and surrounding lands. The simulation supports introducing new economic ideas, such as alternate currencies, into the system to explore how they would shape the economic choices of participants.

Each player enters the game as one of three possible roles: a businessperson, an investor, or a government official, in one of three available countries. Businesspeople can set up different businesses and issue stocks, which can be purchased by investors. The map is divided into small rectangles, each of which represents one of the following elements: a city, a production facility, a natural area, or a wasteland. Workforce potential is generated when citizens consume resources and can then be used to generate more resources. At one point during the game, the moderator informs players about the possibility of introducing an alternative, green currency. It can be implemented by a government official. Since it is designed to incentivize and penalize particular actions, the government official first sees a detailed list of all such actions, for example natural area restoration, building a polluting facility, or building a clean tech facility. Then, they must set rewards or fines for each of them.