Our Futures

Our Futures is a game that encourages you to imagine new ways to involve people in thinking about the future. It can be played by anyone but is particularly relevant for futures professionals, artists, designers and technologists, as well as anyone with responsibility for engaging or consulting the public. Players (individuals or teams) compete to devise scenarios for new types of participatory futures activities that combine emerging technologies and a focus on tackling 21st century challenges, such as biodiversity loss or extreme weather events.

We've open sourced the design files so you can translate or adapt the game. Instructions on how to do this using GitHub are below.

You can read more about the game and its development on the Nesta website.

Using, Translating and Adapting

We have hosted these files on GitHub so that anyone can download them. It also means that you can modify them and upload new versions for others to use. If you're familiar with Git and GitHub you know what to do. If not, the instructions below will easily walk you through the steps.

Using

To download the game, simply click on the green 'Clone or download' button towards the top right of this page, then select 'Download ZIP'. Once the files have downloaded, unzip them and you're ready to go!

To download individual files, you can navigate to them by clicking on the file and folder links above. Once you have navigated to the file you want you can click the 'Download' button.

Translating and Adapting

Once you have downloaded any of the files, we encourage you to use and adapt them within the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License. You may want to change the game or translate it into a different language.

GitHub allows you to not only download and modify the game, but for it to also stay linked to the original version. This means that anyone who finds the game will be able to see all of the different versions people have made and navigate to them.

1. Create a GitHub account
2. Click the 'Fork' button on the top right of this page
3. Download the repository as a ZIP from your fork and unzip it following the instructions above
4. Once you have made any modifications or created new files and arranged them into folders, press the 'Upload Files' button at the top of your forked project
5. Drag the files or new folders into the upload box
6. You're done! Your modified version of the game has been uploaded and is forever connected to the original

Enjoy!