QuestaGame
QuestaGame takes you outdoors – to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. See which birds, insects and other wildlife are more easily spotted in your location at the current time of year. Then join quests, earn gold, buy supplies, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leader board and become one of the great adventurers of all time. All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country’s national database — so you’re not only mapping your conquests, you’re also helping scientists, researchers, planners and others and protect your region’s biodiversity while you play.
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QuestaGame article in Forbes: Games + Crypto for Biodiversity
Andrew Robinson and his wife Mallika together with David Haynes launched a private tech start-up in 2014 and released QuestaGame, a game to help biodiversity. See the coverage in Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/natalieparletta/2019/04/15/the-entrepreneur-who-is-using-video-games-and-cryptocurrency-to-protect-biodiversity/#59891ec969de
QuestaGame Claims Top Science Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science
Games are not normally on the agenda when the cream of Australia’s science community come together each year to celebrate their achievements. This year, however, the nature mapping game, ‘QuestaGame,’ was a winner at the […]
Questagame: a fun game to engage kids to engage with nature
Questagame is fun, easy-to-use, and promotes activity in nature and learning about local wildlife. It’s a free game to load onto your smartphone or tablet, and then take outside on searches for wildlife. It’s designed […]
How Online Gamers Can Save Australia’s Biodiversity (pdf)
QuestaGame is a mobile gaming venture that seeks to… – Engage players in their natural environment through education and entertainment – Help protect Australia’s biodiversity through taxonomy training and species mapping The data, collected by […]