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Polyvale is an award-winning studio making games with impact.

Diem, a cozy democracy sim, won the Grand Prize & Best Aesthetics at the Citizens, Assemble! game jam. Maybe We Saved the World, a narrative game of climate crisis and community action, won the Grand Prize at Just Play: A Game Jam for Climate Futures! Play the jam prototypes on itch.

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Diem: The citizen lottery selector, a 5x7 grid of polaroid-style images of colourful, blinking owl-inspired citizens.
Diem: The Spectrum of Beliefs exercise, colourful owl-inspired citizens are arranged in a row from Agree to Disagree, with speech bubbles reacting to the prompt "Climate change is an emergency."
Illustrated portraits of 8 characters from Kraken Whispers, an interactive text adventure.

You can also play Kraken Whispers, a 100K+ word interactive text adventure, and our first collaboration.

Your estranged brother needs black market antibiotics for your niece. Your cute neighbour has underground resistance vibes. And if you don’t make rent on Friday, you’ll be hauled away by the authorities. Can you survive a week in this dystopian city?

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