Trevor Noah’s Day Zero Productions reveals Solarpunk Jam with Anima Interactive

Daily zero productionsLos Angeles -based production company, founded by Trevor Noah, launches a new jam for games with Anima Interactive and CinereachS

Indie Video Game Studio Anima Interactive has partnered with Day Zero to open the opening video game race-Day Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam-Global Game Global Global Game Jam, awarded a big prize of $ 10,000.

The initiative is sponsored by Cinereach, a non -profit laboratory behind the Oscar -winning films nominees Marcel shell with shoes and Beasts from the southern wildS It is also supported by community partners within the Global Game Development Ecosystem, including the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), Black in Gaming Foundation, Latinx in Gaming and Games for Change.

Following the recent day Zero message about her investment in launching Midsummer Studios, Game Jam has signaled the company’s increasing commitment to support innovative storytelling stories and indie creators in the game space.

“Indy’s games are a fertile environment to push the creative borders in our industry,” notes Dan Zubrisky, Head of Day Zero, in a statement. “The name of our team, Day Zero, has its roots in the climate conversation.

Day Zero Productions is named from the Cape Town shortage crisis, South Africa, which happened between 2015 and 2018 – an origin that reflects the climate consciousness of the studio. Zero Games: Solarpunk Jam invites developers around the world to imagine encouraging and optimistic climate futures, inspired by Solarpunk’s literary and art.

Last year Anima Interactive and Cinereach was hosting Just playAn initiative that encourages creators to explore different lenses of justice through interactive media. These congestion ended with showcases at SXSW in Austin, Texas and the Hollywood climate top.

“The JAMS game is offering a safe space and a playground to experiment and take risks that may not be possible in more structured studio environments,” Anima Interactive Creative Director Carla Reyes said in a statement. “We are excited to partner with Day Zero on this sweet with Solarpunk theme. At a time when our land is fragile, it is more important than ever that art and activism approach and inspire a brighter future. This should be electrifying.”

Rayes will be a speaker of our upcoming Summit Summit 2025 Event on May 19-20 in Los Angeles. Anima Interactive earlier managed Just play Game Jam for justice In 2023

Starting on Earth Day (April 22, 2025) and continued in May 10, 2025, JAM challenged the creators of the creators to make original prototypes of video games that bring out the visibility of the climate in the foreground. Participants will be provided with a narrative toolkit created by Cinereach in partnership with good energy, offering insights and climate research to inform and inspire their projects.

“We are glad to partner with Day Zero Productions in our third JAM game with Anima Interactive,” Cinereach CEO, Candice McFarlane, said in a statement. “We can’t wait to see our stories – filmed by representatives of the affected communities and climate professionals – transformed into gaming worlds with the power to inspire alternative future. What developers create here may be the seeds from which a new reality may emerge.”

With more than three billion gamers worldwide and industry, growing faster than combined films, television and music, video games have become one of the most powerful platforms for social comments and cultural impact. A day of zero games affects this potential to reshape how creators and audiences engage in one of the most necessary problems of our time: the future of our planet.

Performances for creators who open on Earth Day, April 22, 2025 itch.ioS

Day Zero Productions is a joint venture between Trevor Noah and Paramount Global. Her game department collaborates closely with the company’s film and television projects to take a 360-degree approach to telling stories. In addition to transmedia initiatives, DZP produces original interactive experiences such as JeKenite with Epic Games and supports the wider industry through strategic investment, including a circle of seeds in summer studios, founded by Firaxis veteran and Xcom Solomon.

Anima Interactive is a new socially aware independent games and immersive media studio that combines art and technology to ignite positive cultural changes. The company is currently developing Take US North, a storytelling adventure that immerses players in touching migrant travel and asylum seekers on the way to cross the US -Mexico border.

Cinereach is a non -profit laboratory that improves stories that cause curiosity, empathy and agency. We work for a revolution in the story process, we improve how to make and consume stories and overcome the gap between telling stories of social impact and popular entertainment in the film, television and emerging media. Originally founded in 2006 as a Film Foundation and Production Company Company, Cinereach supports over 200 favorite and recognized films, including the Oscar Award, the best nominees nominees nominees Beasts from the southern wild and Marcel shell with shoes.