Win-Win Gameplay

Elowyn incentivizes win-win strategies rather than rewarding win-lose combat. We believe that true victory includes and uplifts everyone—including our planet. By mastering Elowyn’s gameplay strategies, we unlock our deeper potential for transformation s we can act wisely for our planet and future.

Conscious Game Design

Elowyn’s gameboard is uniquely designed with geometric principles to enhance consciousness. Unlike most traditional collectible card games (CCGs) that follow a top-down battle format, Elowyn places its four core elements at the corners of the board to support brainwave integration.

Transformative Lore and Characters

The Elowyn Universe invites you into a mythic quest for humanity’s destiny. The dying Elowyn Tree holds the key to our transformation, but only if we stop playing ourselves out of the game of life. The game lore and characters build on the #1 bestsellers of the Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston, winners of the prestigious Nautilus Gold (2023) and Silver (2022) Awards.

Training Benevolent AI Models

By playing Elowyn, you help train our unique AI models for good, which also serve real-world contexts. The Moloch AI is a deep reinforcement learning model that detects deception and tests alignment by evolving win-win tactics through player interaction. The Elowyn Tree of Life AI is an LLM that's guided by a genetic algorithm, designed to foster benevolence, ethical alignment, and planetary stewardship.

Regenerative Game Economy

Elowyn is driven through a regenerative token economy (EWA) to support real-world impact and tokenize win-win alignment. Elowyn is NOT a crypto scam, and we do not associate ourselves with speculative gains.

• The EWA token (after launch) will provide funding support for regenerative projects, player initiatives, and community empowerment.
• The EWA token also provides players with digital ownership and a role in governance in collectively deciding the future of Elowyn. 

EARTHwise Education for Empowering Youth

Elowyn is a key component of the educational initiatives of the EARTHwise ecosystem, including our work with Indigenous communities. Elowyn also forms part of the following youth leadership programs:

• Living Cities Earth’s Future Leaders Program, engaging 10,000 youth in playing Elowyn for building skills and strategies for future thriving.
• The Earth School in the Philippines, where students are forming gaming clubs and contributing to UNESCO’s Education for Sustainability initiatives.

Sustainability Commitments

We acknowledge how game and AI development come with significant sustainability challenges. To address and mitigate this we are integrating the following strategies: 

• Greening Our Code—We are working with our advisor, Dr. Trista Patterson, and the UNEP Playing for the Planet Alliance to optimize code efficiency, reduce energy demands, and decarbonize game development.
• Industry-Tailored Carbon Accounting —We aim to implement the industry-specific carbon accounting tool developed by the Playing for the Planet Alliance for game studios to track and lower our footprint.
• Energy-Efficient Hosting—We are exploring renewable-powered cloud services to host our game and AI models more sustainably.
• Web-Based Application—Elowyn is designed as a web-based game to reduce reliance on energy-intensive gaming consoles and high-power PCs.
• Eco-Conscious Blockchain—We are evaluating blockchain networks with strong sustainability commitments for our Web3 features.
• Responsible AI Usage—We seek to minimize the use of generative AI in game art design, while taking actions to support biodiversity and invest in planetary regeneration activities.
• Player Actions for Sustainability—The game trains people to develop strategies, competencies, and actions for sustainability while having fun. Through our Education Pilots we make this explicit, linked with our EARTHwise Education for Sustainability curriculum.
• Hardware Optimization— We are committed to optimizing Elowyn to run efficiently on lower-energy devices to reduce unnecessary power consumption.
• Remote-First & Low-Carbon Operations —We prioritize virtual meetings and events to minimize travel and maintain a low operational footprint, together with a simple lifestyle that minimizes consumption and waste.
• Planetary Regeneration Commitments—We support ecosystemic regeneration initiatives, based on an integral, rather than externalized commitment, by making this part of our Game Economy allocations. As well as taking action in our own lives to restore and strengthen Nature's biodiversity, and reduce our ecological footprint.

The EARTHwise Games studio is an official member of the UNEP Playing for the Planet Alliance to set higher sustainability targets and benefit from peer-to-peer support in decarbonizing our game development and deployment.