Peace for the Planets is the winner of the Games for Change Student Challenge 2025's Peaceformers Challenge, a competition in which participants created games to illustrate certain themes. The theme I chose, the Peaceformers Challenge, focused on teaching players how to settle conflict and promote peaceful resolutions. The G4C Student Challenge 2025 was an international competition, with hundreds of submissions from across the world among the different themes.
Peace for the Planets is a visual novel where you play as a Galactic Mediator tasked with promoting peace among your assigned planets. This game uses a simple dialogue system to allow players to chose what advice to give to the different planetary representatives, as well as see the outcome of their choices through text descriptions and illustrations. Peace for the Planets was created in RenPy, which uses a customized version of python, with the goal of learning to make an educational game in the form of a submission to G4C.
Primary Role: Solo Developer
Team Size: Solo Project
Time Frame: 3 Weeks
Responsibilities:
Created a system that would track player decisions in order to determine what was shown at the end of the game
Wrote dialogue and player choices for three separate characters, each in charge of their own unique planet and a representative of their species
Designed a dynamic ending with that would show scenes based on how well the player fostered the planets' relationships, with an extra scene if the player succeeds at making a positive impact with all of their choices
Learned to use the RenPy engine for this project, which uses a customized version of python for creating visual novels
Made simple transition effects, like fading to black over a set amount of time or fading in objects in a certain order
Custom made all sprites, including characters, planets, and backgrounds
Gameplay
Award Certificate
Links
Itch.io Page: https://miles-sullivan.itch.io/peace-for-the-planets
GitHub: https://github.com/MilesSullivan726/Peace-for-the-Planets/tree/main
Games for Change Student Challenge: https://gamesforchange.org/studentchallenge/