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Ecoboros
Ecoboros is an interactive mobile game experience that viscerally maps “who eats who” within a freshwater ecosystem. Learning about these complex interrelated systems is critical to enlightening people about the importance of freshwater ecology and fosters the prevention of adverse events for global water safety.
You play as either a fish, phytoplankton, zooplankton or other part of the food web. As you score points for eating, be careful or you may be eaten yourself! Either way you become part of the "oroboros" or eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth.
Here the participant is immersed into a dynamic, animated interactive food web, a world where interactions, reactions and cascading consequences can be felt and understood.
Ecoboros on test flight:
Design. Development and Production Team
Lead Designer/ Director/ Producer
Kathleen Ruiz, abd Ph.D. Associate Professor Arts & GEM Games and Experiential Media
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Art & Design , Creative Pipeline
Ella Xinyu Zhang
Leland Smith
Gabrielle Chay
Programming
Andi Zhu
Lead Programmer, Associate Producer
Cody Ng
Associate Programmer/Animator
Tyler Majewski
Lead Programmer, Creative Pipeline
Arnav Mukherjee
Programmer
Andrew Zeng
Programmer, Promotion
Music & Sound Design
Alan Tang
Science Team
Sandra Nierzwicki-Bauer, Ph.D. Professor Biological Sciences,
Associate Director, Darrin Freshwater Institute
Darrin Fresh Water Institute
Jeremy Farrell, Ph.D. Senior Lecturer, Biology
David Winkler, Senior Research Specialist
Jonathan Borrelli, Ph.D. Research Associate
Kevin Rose, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair in Freshwater Ecology
Director, Darrin Fresh Water Institute
Director, Jefferson Project
Krysia Kornecki, Ph.D. Geological Sciences & Micro-Paleontology
Matt Schuler, Ph.D. Research Consultant
Brian Mattes, Senior Research Specialist, Darrin Fresh Water Institute
Lawrence Eichler, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Darrin Fresh Water Institute
We gratefully acknowledge our supporters including:
The Helen V. Froehlich Foundation
The Darrin Freshwater Institute
The Jefferson Project
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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