Want to help the average American learn and care
more about the fascinating phenomena, behaviors,
and inter-relationships of the natural world that
prompted you to become an ecologist in the first place?
A student team from University of Southern
California graduate schools is designing a
gesture-based gardening/ecology game in which the
game-play and logics are founded on the
mechanics, behaviors and interrelationships of
real-world animals, birds, insects and plants.
Were seeking specialists from fields including
(but not limited to) botany, ornithology, and
entomology willing to collaborate with us and to
help us design a fun, high-quality game that
teaches, entertains and heightens players
interest in and commitment to -- the natural world all at once.
While this is a student project, some games (e.g.
The Adventures of PB Winterbottom, Reflection)
developed through this route at USC have received
commercial contracts and become commercial games.
Thus, work with us might help both your research
and you, as an individual, to obtain more
attention from broad, non-specialist audiences
than they would otherwise receive.
Interested in contributing to and/or in learning
more about the game? Contact Diane Tucker at diane dot tucker at usc dot edu
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