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Activists at an unauthorized protest on Wednesday 9 December at the climate conference in Paris (Photo: Peter Teffer)

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Video games, inventions, and protests at Paris CO2 summit

Activists at an unauthorized protest on Wednesday 9 December at the climate conference in Paris (Photo: Peter Teffer)

A familiar-looking yellow circle was moving around a screen in Paris on Wednesday (9 December), apparently eating smaller circles.

It was not Pac-man, the classic video game from 1980, but rather Capman, a game developed by Brussels-based NGO Carbon Market Watch.

It was showcasing its video game, which relays the environmentalist group's main concerns in a playful way, at the United Nations climate conference.

The gameplay was apparently so engaging that the man who was su...

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