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About Earth Commanders

A game about the people who answer the call.

Earth Commanders is a cooperative strategy game. You build an international response agency and send it to emergencies that reach the map from real hazard feeds.

11kinds of call
9sources feeding the map
11vehicles in the fleet

What you do

Run the agency the world calls

Headquarters

Build your agency

Headquarters grows from one command centre into a campus: a fire station for the engines, an air base for the aircraft, a port for everything that floats.

  • Command centre
  • Fire station
  • Air base
  • Port
  • Medical centre
  • Workshop
  • Tracking station
The headquarters campus: buildings, roads and a harbour on one block of land

Incoming

Answer real calls

Earthquakes, wildfires, floods, storms and oil spills appear as the feeds report them.

Planning

Decide what comes first

Every call needs something different: water, boats, lift or medics. Planning beats speed.

Salvage

Clean up and recycle

Plastic becomes jewellery, scrap becomes spare parts and crude oil becomes fuel.

Community

Work together

Report a problem near you. Three players confirm it, and every agency can answer it.

The fleet

Eleven vehicles, each built for a different call

  • Fire truck

    The backbone of any fire response.

  • Ambulance

    Carries the injured out while the scene is still live.

  • Rescue helo

    Lifts people off roofs, ridges and decks nothing else reaches.

  • Heavy rescue

    Cutting gear, shoring and winches on one chassis.

  • Water bomber

    Breaks a wildfire front in one pass.

  • Rescue van

    A treatment room that drives itself to the casualties.

  • Rescue boat

    Reaches flooded streets no truck can enter.

  • Skimmer vessel

    The only thing that recovers plastic from open water.

  • Oil response vessel

    Rings a slick with boom and skims it before it reaches the shore.

  • Excavator

    Clears collapsed structures without waiting for a crane.

  • Scout drone

    Finds survivors before the first unit lands.

Real events

Handled with care

  • No casualty figures, no victim names, no photos of people.No feed we use carries them into the game.

  • What, roughly where, and when.That is everything a real event shows.

  • Real or simulation, always labelled.The label is part of the game, not a setting.

Never use the game as emergency information.

It is not a warning system, and it can be late, wrong or incomplete. Nothing you do here sends aid, money or equipment anywhere. In an emergency, call your emergency number.

Where the calls come from

Nine sources, credited on every call

Each call on the map names the feed that saw it.

Live feedPublic domain

USGS

Earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above, worldwide.

  • Quake
Live feedOpen data

GDACS

EU Joint Research Centre and United Nations, graded by expected human impact.

  • Quake
  • Cyclone
  • Flood
  • Volcano
  • Drought
  • Wildfire
Live feedPublic domain

NASA EONET

Natural events with their tracks across the map.

  • Storm
  • Fire
  • Volcano
  • Flood
Live feedPublic domain

NASA FIRMS

Fires detected by satellite in near real time.

  • Wildfire
Live feedAttribution

ReliefWeb

UN OCHA's record of the disasters the humanitarian system is working on.

  • Disasters
Live feedCC BY-SA 4.0

SkyTruth Cerulean

Oil slicks outlined from Sentinel-1 radar.

  • Oil
DatasetPublic domain

NOAA NCEI

Measurements of microplastics in the ocean.

  • Plastic
ModelCC BY 4.0

Meijer et al. 2021

A model of the plastic that rivers carry into the sea.

  • Plastic
PlayersCommunity

Earth Commanders players

Reported by a player, checked by our review team, confirmed by three more.

  • Plastic
  • Oil
  • Dumping

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