Doozoom

A picture is worth a thousand words, and people can grasp new ideas better through game playing.  That's the concept of Zoom an Re-zoom by Istvan Banyai, Wilderdom.  Doozoom borrows from the Zoom idea and builds a game factory for the design of games that can help better understand  sustainable ideas through fun ways.

We currently have 2 games under development.  One is called "Labdoo game".  Through the Doozoom Labdoo game, players learn that everyone can make a contribution in a large variety of ways.  One step at a time, players work together to fight the digital divide and help resolving an environmental issue.  Players also learn that they can be the stumbling stones if they let laptops sit idle along the path.  The second game is called "Cycle of Life". From the prime materials of earth (trees, rocks, minerals, ...) from where a laptop gets built, the laws of physics that allow a laptop to function, the factory where it gets assembled, the store where it gets bought, the user in the rich country who uses it for about four years, the Moore's law of obsolescence, the tagging, the donation, sanitation, the transportation to a poor country using dootrip, the usage of the laptop by a child, the eventual transportation to a recycling factory using again dootrip, and the decomposition/disintegration of each element in the laptop going back to Planet earth, starting a new cycle of life. Players get to learn the complete process in a vivid and fun manner.

We will soon provide our first release of the doozoom games. In the meantime, come join the fun and let us know about your ideas at contact@labdoo.org.