Andy & Cammy Bonny - 2022

Artist's Statement

Big World, Small Planet is our way of telling the story of the Anthropocene through the medium of a playable card game. The game tells the story through rampant consumerism that fuels growth, and tells of a brighter future through degrowth and seeking greener solutions. The players must strategically decide when to cash in their hard-earned money to fund “Small World Projects,” which are key steps to a brighter future.

Contained within this project are a comprehensive rulebook and drafts for the appearance of the cards. The majority of our time spent on this project included brainstorming, coming up with, and scrapping ideas for gameplay mechanics that would support the heavier theme of the game. After many trials and errors, we’ve come up with this: a tableau-building, dice chucking game that rewards players for conserving resources and punishes players for getting too greedy. We hope that the story told through this game accurately depicts the way that humanity eventually wins in the end: through making our world smaller again.