Month: May 2016

Free downloads now available for Mac, PC, iPhone/iPad and Android!

We’re proud to announce our newest game, EcoTrivia: Save the Animals!  In this game you are led by animal ambassadors through four different ecosystems: a toucan in the rainforest, a polar bear in the Arctic, a clownfish in a coral reef, and a pika in the mountains.  In each area you have to answer trivia questions to protect the animals from climate change and habitat destruction.

EcoTrivia: Save the Animals! was made by Rashmi Sharma, Rittwika Rudra, and Courtney Harris for their Information School MSIM capstone project, in collaboration with Dargan Frierson.  Erica Escajeda provided questions for the polar bear section, and many members of EarthGamesUW helped with testing.

The game has already won a best design award from the UW Information School! EcoTrivia: Save the Animals! is freely available for Mac, PC, iOS and Android!

Interested in using our game in an educational setting?  Check out our new Teacher’s Guide for Climate Quest!

The game was designed specifically for a classroom or a museum setting, and is chock-full of interesting scientific content.  It focus on impacts of climate change on the US, and strategies that can be used to deal with the consequences.

It takes only 10 minutes to play through the game.  The teacher’s guide includes both pre- and post-play activities, and a set of detailed scientific sources about each individual event, in case you’d like to learn more.

The teacher’s guide can be downloaded here: ClimateQuest-TeachersGuide.