Excuse my kid’s movie introduction, but since Chalk does not really have an introduction, I thought I could as well make one up. It is a game that takes place on a chalkboard, with a chalk-drawn main character walking through all kinds of chalky dangers – and you as the player are in control of the single chalk to change their fortune!

The indirect controls work very well and give the game a sort of “interactive drawing” feel. Things happen on the chalkboard, and you can change them if you react fast enough. The little lady with the red scarf always follows the sun, so if you drag the sun to some other place, she will follow. Cute!

The story outline: An association of environmental activists, calling themselves THOC (”The Heat Of Change”), invites the leaders of the G7 countries (with Russia left out!) to a conference where they should discuss the global warming issue. Once those seven gentlemen get there, THOC pump sleeping gas into the conference room, kidnap all seven of them and put them on a steadily melting ice floe in the arctic, equipped with nothing but some bags of salt that came with their last meal, to battle it out – because they are all held responsible for this very melting ice floe that could now be the end of them! The one to survive this battle to the freeze will then be in charge of the fight against global warming, assuming he has learned his lesson.

Definitely pioneering work in the field of constructivist eco-propaganda games, and at the same time a hot-seat battle for up to seven leaders of the world!