Long, C. (2025) ‘Concordia team develops solar-powered Minecraft-style game with eco-heart’, News. Montreal: CTV News.  

Members Muhammad Shahrom Ali, Quinn Saggio and Rosie McDonald talked to CTV News about their work on Gaia’s Riddle, a Minecraft SMP (survival multiplayer) experience that integrates a solar-powered server into gameplay.

“Some Concordia University researchers in Montreal have come up with a video game about fighting climate change – and it’s solar-powered. 

“The Enigma of Gaia” is a multiplayer survival game that uses the Minecraft platform. 

“We made mods to the game that include pollution,” she said. “We’ve added temperature and thirst, we’ve added devastating storms that destroy the landscape, and so that’s not in regular Minecraft. It’s a lot harder to play this way, but it gets players to think very differently.”