Stonemaier Games, £59.99.Īge 10+, 1-5 players, 40-70 minutes playing time.įor each of your turns, you have the choice of just four actions: play a card, gain food from the birdfeeder (a very cute dice tower), lay eggs or draw more bird cards. Illustrated by Natalia Rojas, Ana Maria Martinez Jaramillo, and Beth Sobel. Reviewed by Megan Shersby, editorial & digital co-ordinator, BBC Wildlife Wingspan (2019)īy Elizabeth Hargrave. There’s also a deluxe edition available, which a 5-6 player expansion, acrylic fish tokens, foiled scenario and ‘The Deep’ cards, card sleeves and food bags. If the latter half doesn’t appeal to you, the game can be made more family-friendly by playing the Reef variant and avoiding the ‘The Deep’. Each of ‘The Deep’ 100 cards is unique, so each game will be different. After the explosion, players can starting using powerful trait cards from ‘The Deep’, which stray from reality into the world of the unknown, with cards such as ‘Abyss Dweller’, ‘Electric Discharge’ and ‘The Kraken’. “Being indoors on a computer is often seen as the opposite of engaging with nature, but our findings show that games can teach people about animals without even trying.Then the Cambrian explosion occurs, and suddenly everything becomes a lot more extreme, with random scenario cards activating and deactivating (such as asteroid impacts!). “We don’t expect big-budget games to include messages about conservation, but educators and conservationists can learn from the techniques used in games-such as making things immersive, and having each action mean something in terms of wider progress in the game,” said Ned Crowley, of Truro and Penwith College, the study’s lead author. Species they identified included white-tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus), jackrabbits ( Lepus californicus), alligator snapping turtles ( Macrochelys temminckii), lake sturgeon ( Acipenser fulvescens), blue jays ( Cyanocitta cristata) and roseate spoonbills ( Platalea ajaja). On average, Red Dead Redemption players identified 10 of 15 American animals, which was more than a control group that hadn’t played the game. To learn about wildlife, some people don’t even have to leave their homes-they can just play the popular video game “Red Dead Redemption 2.” Researchers found that the game, which is set in the American West in 1899, can effectively teach players how to identify wildlife-about 200 different species, which look and behave realistically.Īfter participants played the video game, the researchers asked them to identify real wildlife in a multiple choice quiz. The red fox ( Vulpes vulpes) is one of the species that “Red Dead Redemption 2” players encounter.
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