WIRED visited the Geological Society of America conference to learn about the untapped potential of gigantic reptiles in gaming.
The most marine-centered event at GSA was also one of the loudest voices in the chorus for pro-ammonite games. The final night of the conference, I stumbled up to a Hyatt Regency ballroom for the long-awaited social event “Friends of the Cephalopods.” Under a vaulted ceiling, academics, museum workers, and the octopus-curious passed around a flagon of Kraken Rum. They drank to cephalopods and laughed whenever a vertebrate came up in conversation.
In different oceanic eras, players will take on different shell permutations as they try to survive, balancing factors like speed, endurance, and hunger. Jenkins hopeswill be enjoyable to all—not only cephalopod friends. It sacrifices some accuracy for entertainment, but that doesn’t mean players won’t learn.than I ever did in the public education system,” Jenkins says.
Paleontology studies the world’s oldest organisms, the bedrock of biology and ecology, but that doesn’t mean the technology to share this research is stuck in the past. Posters at GSA focused on virtual field trips, interactive fossil software, community-building podcasts, and—both to teach and to simulate geologic phenomena. Video games are just another tool to toy with billions of years of history.
On a breezy rooftop bar, I met Vanderbilt University assistant professor Neil Kelley, who appreciated’s animal diversity as much as his pro-Blathers peers across the rooftop. “In terms of the representation of really obscure groups that never get any kind of popular media representation, there's a lot of them in. “Good exposure to biodiversity!” Kelley said as we took notice of the live monster-catching going on below us.
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