A game based on entomology

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I’ve been toying with the idea of an online game called “Bug Span”, in the idiom
of the incredibly popular board game “wingspan”. This would be based
to a large extent on photos and knowledge of insects.

This is a strictly non-commercial project, not involving any cost to players
or revenues of any kind. Strictly a fun and educational project.

I can supply the game play and technology, but I need photos and expertise
in the field. If you have an interest, and (likely) a few hundred hours to spare,
I’d like to talk.

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Perhaps the title should say “entomology,” not “etymology”? Also, I think we can come up with a more unique name than “BugSpan” ;)

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etymology or entomology?

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are you interested in the words (names) or the insects as such?

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Entomology.for the game; Etymology for the rest of this posting.
“span” is becoming a suffix associated with a certain style of game.
There are Wingspan (birds), Wrmspan (dragons) and Finspan (fish)

I’m open to suggestions, but the domain I’m thinking of spans all
invertibrate animals. Bugs seem like a good umbrella .

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Might be worth checking that Stonemaier Games haven’t pre-emptively reserved the name already somehow, otherwise it might be seen as encroaching on their territory. They’re generally a pretty pleasant company but (understandably) fairly protective of their product family.

Edit to add: I think the idea in principle is a good’un :)

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I saw that someone mentioned Bugspan as a name on the comments for Fishspan product so at least a fan of the games has already proposed it.

I’ve not played any of the games but they look interesting.

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I’m not much of a board game guy (I can’t even win in my own ones), but a game based on Entomology? HECK YA!

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