This research develops an Indigenous-informed video game that teaches environmental stewardship through reciprocal relationships with the land. Drawing on community knowledge and storytelling, the game challenges extractive, colonial approaches common in popular games by making ecological balance, listening, and responsibility essential for survival and success.

This thesis explores how whiteness operates as an invisible cultural norm in Australia by analysing Aboriginal accounts of exclusion and marginalisation. Through creative and critical methods, the research reveals how white cultural dominance shapes social life and highlights the need for awareness, debate, and structural change to build a more equitable nation.