08-01-2020, 05:22 PM
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/200793/n...eal-world/
Imperial researchers have developed a new ecosystem-building game where players learn about and contribute to vital environmental research.
EcoBuilder, which is downloadable now on smartphones and tablets, teaches players how ecosystems work and aims to crowdsource solutions to unsolved ecological puzzles.
Ecosystem research looks at how animals and plants interact with each other and their environment. Climate change and other human interventions pose ongoing threats to how ecosystems function, resulting in changes to carbon flows and even extinctions of certain species.
EcoBuilder lets players build their own ecosystem of plants and animals. They throw together a bunch of species of different shapes and sizes, decide who eats who within the confines of the game, and depending on their decisions species will either survive or go extinct.
Well, this is certainly an interesting concept - and it'll give people a good excuse to fritter away time gaming on their smartphones !
I don't know how useful it'll be for its stated purpose (I guess it depends on how well the real ecological situations have been modelled here) - but, good luck to them .
Imperial researchers have developed a new ecosystem-building game where players learn about and contribute to vital environmental research.
EcoBuilder, which is downloadable now on smartphones and tablets, teaches players how ecosystems work and aims to crowdsource solutions to unsolved ecological puzzles.
Ecosystem research looks at how animals and plants interact with each other and their environment. Climate change and other human interventions pose ongoing threats to how ecosystems function, resulting in changes to carbon flows and even extinctions of certain species.
EcoBuilder lets players build their own ecosystem of plants and animals. They throw together a bunch of species of different shapes and sizes, decide who eats who within the confines of the game, and depending on their decisions species will either survive or go extinct.
Well, this is certainly an interesting concept - and it'll give people a good excuse to fritter away time gaming on their smartphones !
I don't know how useful it'll be for its stated purpose (I guess it depends on how well the real ecological situations have been modelled here) - but, good luck to them .
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