EcoDragons: A Game for Environmental Education and Public Outreach.

ABSTRACT: Environmental education is crucial to tackling the pressing ecological and societal issues on our planet. Although there are various ways to approach environmental education and raise public awareness, games are potentially an effective vehicle of knowledge and engagement because they vulgarize the scientific information in a universal 'language' and bring people together. Here, we designed a game, EcoDragons, that integrates principles of ecology, biological conservation, life history, and taxonomy. The protagonists of the game are dragonflies and damselflies. The aim of the game is to colonize habitats with different species and use ecological processes (e.g., predation, competition, and mutualism) and conservation measures (e.g., restoration and reintroduction) to face random environmen

SUBMITTER: Khelifa R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8467608 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature