GreenQuest Innovations

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From Real Life to Game Characters: The Rescue Tides Process” x.com/i/spaces/1lJQR…

This is our character design process for Rescue Tides: every face, role, and detail drawn from real people and stories. We didn't just design characters, we studied how a Lagos neighborhood moves, responds, and survives together, translating it into our world. That's the spirit of Rescue Tides. Join the waitlist and be part of what comes next: greenquestinnovations.org #RescueTides #GameDev #AfricanGames #IndieDev #CharacterDesign #WorldBuilding

Climate change isn’t abstract for everyone. In Ikorodu, it means children missing school, losing friends, and facing waterborne diseases after floods. That reality is what pushed us to build something different. We’re launching GreenQuest: Rescue Tides, an RPG designed to turn climate awareness into action. Because real change doesn’t come from information alone. It comes from experience. In GreenQuest, players make decisions, face consequences, and understand climate impact in a way data alone can’t teach. We’re not just building a game. We’re building a new way to learn, engage, and act. Launching this April. Join the waitlist and be part of what comes next: greenquestinnovations.org #ClimateTech #GameForGood #GreenQuest #RescueTides

Our redesigned website is now live! Visit greenquestinnovations.org to learn more.

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Lock in, it’s going to be interesting! twitter.com/i/spaces/1MKgN…

I didn’t get here overnight, And I’ll always be grateful for all the “No”s and “Yes” that got me here 🙏🏾

Words from our CTO @S_Vidal08 : "In November 2023, I made a decision. I was going into tech. No experience. Just the decision. I got a scholarship to study game development at Sail Innovation Lab x Gamr. In three months, build an MVP, demo it, and prove you belong. I did all three. Got my certificate from Senator Abiru himself. April 2024, I landed an internship at Dimension 11 Games. The people who built Legends of Orisha. And I wasn't just sitting in the corner watching. I was being mentored directly by their CTO, David Olamide. The internship ended. I kept building anyway. Joined a hackathon, led a team, and built a Web3 game from scratch, deploying it on the Core DAO mainnet. CoreQuest. First attempt. Actually worked. Then Gamr, the biggest gaming community in Africa, chose CoreQuest to be previewed at their lab launch. Game of the day. They called me the best developer from their first set. That moment put me in a room I wasn't supposed to be in yet. Grace James, CEO of GreenQuest Innovations, found me. We got on a call. We talked. We signed. April 1st 2024, I resumed as CTO and Co-Founder of GQI. 12 months. That's all it took. I'm not saying this to impress anyone. I'm saying it because nobody told me the timeline could look like this. So I'm telling you. 🎮 GreenQuest Monsters & Threats drops April 15!!" Join our waitlist: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… #GameDev #AfricanTech #NigerianGaming #GreenQuest #MonstersAndThreats

Words from our founder @thegracejames : "Nobody told me there were different types of grants when I started. I just knew I had a vision. A problem I couldn’t stop thinking about. And zero idea how to fund solving it. So I did what most first-timers do: I applied for everything. Copy-pasted the same pitch. Wondered why the nos kept coming. Then I started paying attention. Not just to what we were winning, but why. 🏆 Competition Grants are a different beast entirely. You’re not just selling your idea, you’re performing it. In a room full of people who’ve heard a hundred pitches that day, you have minutes to make them feel something. When we won the @WMO Global Flood & Drought Youth Competition, it wasn’t because we had the most polished deck. It was because we walked in with real data, a real story, and a problem we clearly couldn’t let go of. Merit-based means the best case wins — not just the best idea. 🌊 Project Grants taught me the art of alignment. True Blue Fellowship didn’t fund us. They funded a specific chapter of what we were building — our ocean conservation level. The moment I understood that, everything about how I wrote proposals changed. You’re not asking them to believe in your whole vision. You’re showing them the exact corner of your work that lives inside their mission. That’s the unlock. 🤝 Mentorship Grants are the ones people underestimate most. When She Got Game came through, I almost undervalued it because the cheque wasn’t the biggest. That would’ve been a mistake. What they gave us — the relationships, the rooms we got into, the people who started making calls on our behalf — quietly changed the trajectory of everything that came after. Some grants open doors. Mentorship grants you the keys. 🌱 Startup Grants are about timing more than anything. @Y4Cofficial backing CropIQ when they did wasn’t lucky. It was because we’d positioned ourselves as early-stage on purpose — showing traction without pretending we had it all figured out. These grants are designed for the messy middle. For the version of you that has conviction but not yet proof. Learn to speak that language honestly, and you’ll stop feeling like you’re not ready enough. Here’s what changed everything for me: Realising that a grant isn’t just funding. It’s a relationship with a specific type of believer. And you’ll never write a winning application until you know exactly who you’re writing to — and what they need to feel before they say yes. Which type are you currently going after? "

That electric feeling when you play GreenQuest: Monsters and threats ! Join our waitlist today, linktr.ee/GreenQuestInno…

Advice from our founder @thegracejames : I won 4 global grants, without knowing anyone or having connections. "Yes! No connections. No rich uncle. Just strategy, persistence, and a lot of late nights. Here’s how I did it: Back in 2021, I had this crazy idea: combine two things I love—gaming and climate advocacy—into one game. I’ve always loved games, and I knew if I wanted young people to care about the environment, it had to be fun and relatable. 2022–2023 was rough. I bootstrapped, pitched, tried to build… and failed. More than once. Honestly, I almost gave up. Then 2024 happened. I won the Fuze talent show in tech, and suddenly, I had momentum. Confidence. Proof that maybe this could work. And then 2025… wow. First, we won the WMO Global Integrated Flood & Drought Youth Competition. Then, the True Blue Fellowship gave us a grant to build an ocean conservation level. She Got Game gave mentorship I’d been dreaming of. And finally, Youth4Climate supported my new startup, CropIQ. It didn’t happen overnight. But now we’re launching the game this April 🚀 Want to follow our journey? Join the waitlist here: linktr.ee/GreenQuestInno… Want mentorship to access global opportunities? Comment "MENTOR", and we’ll add you to our community." #WomenInTech #GrantFunding #ClimateTech #Afrofuturism #GamingForGood #YouthInnovation

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Seeing litter or environmental damage no longer feels abstract—it prompts action. This is the shift from awareness to lived behaviour.

Games are one of the most effective learning systems humans have ever built. They reward, reinforce, and repeat behaviour.