Hi everyone. I’m a keen iNat user, citizen scientist, artist and game designer. My first game, Cuttle Scuttle, is a retro arcade-style game for up to three players, based on the real ecology of a temperate rocky reef in South Australia. You play as a female giant Australian cuttlefish, and must rec…

Great Topic :-) There is the very beautiful game Samorost: https://amanita-design.net/games/samorost3.html . Though the interactions between species in the game are more phantasy driven than reflecting actual species interactions, I have the feeling it should not be missing here. At least, in Samoro…

ABZU is a beautiful game based on marine communities - it’s not really about ecosystems and species interactions, but all the species in the game are based on real ones and levels tend to have species that would be found together or in the same general areas.

I bought ABZU a while back but it’s still sitting in my Steam inbox, waiting for me to install it and give it a run. Thanks for reminding me, @kestrel .

I read this piece by The Birdist (Nick Lund) not long ago, a birder play testing the accuracy of Red Dead Redemption 2. http://www.thebirdist.com/2019/01/birding-in-red-dead-redemption-2.html

For anyone who wanted to buy the Shelter games, they are on a steep sale on Steam right now: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/shelter/

I know it’s not necessarily an extant ecosystem, but the video game Saurian is focused entirely on recreating what the Hell Creek formation’s environment would have been like 66 million years ago. It’s not finished yet, not by a long shot, but it’s worth checking out.

When i was in Portugal last week members of the expedition told me that the writers of the Crossbill Nature guides (South Portugal, Extremadura, Briebza, Bibiowieza, Loire etc) also had written an Eco game: https://crossbillguides.nl/ecosim I only never played it. The game list has english descrip…

Personally I enjoy Tyto ecology which is a relaxing game about making your own ecosystem and balancing predator prey dynamics.

I would like to see an ecology game where you have to become an organism, and go through it’s life cycle. get yourself out of the egg, find food, shed skin, avoid predators, find a mate. No sugar coating, if you are a caterpillar you literally have a 1% chance of getting to adulthood, etc. kinda lik…

Computer games based on real ecosystems

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earthknight April 8, 2019, 9:28am 16

The PBS Wild Krats kids nature series has a bunch of somewhat silly online nature based games.

https://pbskids.org/wildkratts/games/

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