Gamification for Earth Sciences
By Chris Skinner The resolutions you make at New Year are very rarely met and even rarer is for a New Year’s resolution to be successfully completed before the year has barely got started. However, my resolution to build my own retro gaming arcade cabinet has been completed way before schedule. My starting point was […]
Read More Building the Picade – A Raspberry Pi Powered Arcade MachineWe have had a fantastic and extremely busy 2018. Definite highlights have been the redevelopment of Flash Flood!, exhibiting in the Natural History Museum, and obviously, launching the Earth Arcade. In fact we have been so busy, we’re going to show you our highlights month-by-month. January We had over 80 school pupils from Newland St John’s […]
Read More SeriousGeoGames’ 2018 ReviewToday we launched the Earth Arcade, our brand new project and most ambitious one to date. The Earth Arcade is a space for us to bring together all our games and activities and share them with you. It will allow to us to meet more people and share the latest environmental research more widely. As […]
Read More The Earth Arcade – It’s GAME ON for solving environmental issues #EarthArcade #GameOnWe are super-super-super excited to tell you we will be bringing our Flash Flood! VR game to the Natural History Museum in London. We will be joining a series of other exhibits as part of the Museum’s half-term Operation Earth showcase, and we will be there from the 29th of May until the 31st of […]
Read More We’re bringing Flash Flood! to the @NHM_London for #OperationEarth 29-31 May 2018This year’s European Geoscience Union General Assembly will feature the first ever, and totally unofficial (at the moment), Geoscience Games Day. It has been organised by SeriousGeoGamer Chris Skinner, the creative Sam Illingworth, the inventive Rolf Hut, and the volcanic Jazmin Scarlett. All the details are in the image below. Games for Geoscience Oral Session […]
Read More #EGU18 Geoscience Games Night – List of GamesA few weeks ago we heard from the SEED Masters students working on developing TideBox. This post hears from another group developing Flood Defender, a gamified version of a long-standing flood risk management practical used in the Geohazards module at the University of Hull. Flood Defender will merge our hydraulic model with the Unreal 3D […]
Read More Flood Defender – Developer ReportTideBox is one of several development projects we have ongoing. It is being developed by Seed Software students in Computer Science, University of Hull, and they are currently working in a ‘sprint’ period where they dedicate a chunk of their time to the project. They sent us a report for the blog to summarise their […]
Read More TideBox Developer ReportLast year we took our Flash Flood! game to the NERC Science Showcase, Into the blue. We had an amazing time, and you guys seem to as well as we were voted as one of the most popular exhibits. Read about what we got up to here, and also check out our article in NERC’s […]
Read More Our Games at NERC #UnEarthed2017 17-19 November 2017What is this data? Answer below the Pic This is the Humber, showing the region immediately north of South Ferriby, with Read’s Island and the Old Warp sandbank. The background is a visualisation of LiDAR data, a high resolution laser scan of ground heights. It’s made up of several scans over the period 1998 to […]
Read More #GuessTheData Answer – 04/10/2017If you’ve been to an event and played one of our games, you will have most likely also seen the River-in-a-Box mini-flume. This is a big box of plastic sand, through which water flows, building miniature rivers. Xuxu setting up River-in-a-Box for Hull’s Freedom Festival in 2015 I’ve been trying to recreate this in a […]
Read More A Virtual River-in-a-Box = Problems!