DAYBREAK

Kevin Davidson

Daybreak: Playing out Possitopian Futures

Daybreak invites us to imagine a viable path for humanity amidst the shifting and uncertain realm of the Possible.

5 min readMay 29, 2023

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Daybreak: Playing out Possitopian Futures

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Matt Leacock

Daybreak: replayability

Say you finally won Daybreak. Can you do it again with new challenges and twists?

4 min readOct 18, 2022

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Daybreak: replayability

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Amit Rai Sharma 👉 Digital exhibition (17-AUG)

How does it feel to beat Daybreak?

After a few failed attempts, Amit and his team won. Once the post-victory excitement settled, a childhood memory began to emerge.

4 min readOct 14, 2022

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How does it feel to beat Daybreak?

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Matteo Menapace

Daybreak: winning and losing

When it comes to the climate crisis, what does victory mean? And what can result in a loss?

11 min readOct 8, 2022

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Daybreak: winning and losing

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Matt Leacock

Daybreak: players and powers

How we decided who the players would represent and how we untangled all the many different types of actions you can take.

13 min readOct 4, 2022

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Daybreak: players and powers

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Matt Leacock

Daybreak: models and resources

How we used real-world data and input from our advisors to design the player boards and help players track resources.

7 min readSep 30, 2022

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Daybreak: models and resources

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Matteo Menapace

Daybreak: antagonists and impacts

A dive into how the game models global warming and its impacts: game board, crisis cards and planetary tipping points.

14 min readSep 27, 2022

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Daybreak: antagonists and impacts

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Matteo Menapace

Why we made Daybreak

Matt and I started designing this game to answer a burning question: What can I do about the climate crisis? You asked yourself that too?

6 min readSep 23, 2022

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Why we made Daybreak

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Matteo Menapace

Daybreak, winter solstice 2021

Unprecedented “natural” disasters, the farce of COP26, and utopian game design

5 min readDec 21, 2021

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Daybreak, winter solstice 2021

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Matteo Menapace

Net zero ≠ game over

What does net zero even mean? And why is net zero the prerequisite to win Daybreak?

6 min readNov 3, 2021

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A graph that illustrates how quickly greenhouse gas emissions must decline in order to stave off increasingly catastrophic climate breakdown. Total global emissions must almost halve by 2030, and the global release of greenhouse gases must, end almost entirely by 2050.

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Daybreak is a cooperative board game about about stopping climate change. Can you build a decarbonised world for all of us to thrive as well as survive?
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Editors
Matteo Menapace
Game design and climate breakdown https://ma.tteo.me (he/him)
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Matt Leacock
Game Designer known for Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and the ERA series of games. (he/him)
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Alex Hague
Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and tall.
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