Biodiversity education quiz game

Hello everyone,
I would like to create a biodiversity education quiz game, much like what geoguessr is to geography.

I have created a prototype and would love to get your feedback on the game, to see what I should focus on improving next. You can find the game here: https://www.bioguessr.com/

I have started with a version in which you see a photo and have four family name answers to choose from. But this is only temporary, because I have in mind to make an interactive classification tree where the user has to pinpoint the identification on.

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I have seen the discussion on previous quiz game introduced here, and will include the suggestions from there as well over time.

I think that the development of this earlier quiz has stalled. @jonnyk20 ?

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@jhoekstra you mentioned some interest a while ago on such a quiz. Did your development make any progress?

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Some photos are much higher resolution than they need to be. Maybe you limit such photos or show a lower-res version.

Thanks for the feedback! Yes that is correct, at this level of answers I guess I don’t need that much resolution.

on my screen (macBook with Safari) the answer buttons are all overlapping each other, so I can’t read them. It’s just possible to see that there are different buttons
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Thank you! That is strange though, I have the same (Safari on Macbook) and it looks okay, all four buttons separate. This will take longer to fix.

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Just stopped loading at one point while Internet connection is fine.

Same for me, eventually stuck loading on second game.

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Thanks for the feedback. I have seen it myself now, will work on fixing this later.

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Twice now I’ve seen a duplicate answer. The first time I clicked on one and was told the answer was incorrect, the second occurrence being the ‘correct’ answer.

The second time the button I chose happened to be the correct one but it’s still duplicated.

Sounds like a great idea.

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This was fun, I saw some animals I didn’t know existed.

I played through a few rounds of the game and came across a few issues. On a few slides the answers I was given did not have common names attached to them. I couldn’t make any educated guesses.

A few slides had more than one animal present (predation events). I was not sure which animal I was ID’ing.

Something I would be interested in is being able to pick which order/family I wanted to be tested on. I think it would be easier to learn if you are only learning from a smaller pool of possible questions.

Another suggestion is having a screen where, once the game is done, you can see your results. Or if you can choose to replay the ones you got wrong, so the repetition helps you remember.

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That was fun! Stunning photos chosen. No issues with my MacBook Pro and Safari. One ID issue (I think).

This is not a crab spider, right?

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There is a Crab Spider in front of the bee

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This game feels like doing IDs. Except you don’t get the reward of progressing an observation record. It’s not for me.

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I had the same photo/species twice in the first 5 photos.

This is neat. Wonder if you thought of providing an option to filter by location, at least at country level?

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Observations with copyright infringement show up.

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It would be nice if there were some sort of feedback when an answer is wrong to help the player learn key characteristics about the taxa.

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