#gaming for good

[montereybayaquarium]

👾 Today's the day! 👾

The community science mobile game that we’ve been working on with our fronds at FathomVerse and @mbari-blog (and that y’all helped beta test 🎉) is now available for FREE in the Google Play and Apple App stores! 

This is the game ctenophore you if you like: ✅Cozy games ✅Neat deep-sea animals ✅Community science ✅Helping the ocean

We’ll also be diving into the FathomVerse as we play along with MBARI’s Dr. Kakani Katija tomorrow, Thursday, May 2 at 1:30 PM PT on our Twitch and YouTube. 

Want to know more about FathomVerse and how it was made? Check out our latest webstory!

And shout out to the folks from our community here on Tumblr who helped to beta test early versions of the game!!!!!!! 🎉💙 we love u, tumblr fronds

[mintaii]

take responsibility

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[nipuni]

Aziraphale and Crowley in Hades style! 😊

A speedpaint video of these will be available at my Patreon on june 1st along with the 10th doctor one!

[nikoco11]

AAAGHHHHHHHHHHH

finally finished this i’m happy!!!!!! she’s one of my favorite designs in game and my favorite designs i’ve ever drawn wahaahaaaa

[chthonic-kids]

this person gets it

[cardo-de-comer]

the devil you know

[snuffysbox]

Mouthwashing is a neat little game, love these characters who all have a good time

[chipchopclipclop]

autonomy

[croudjay]

“Good Luck, Babe!”

[markodragic]

I dont think anything on this earth tickles me so hard as how busted white people look in the yakuza franchise

its so dhsjdjfjxjfjgk

[theoldaeroplane]

worried that thing you put in your art or writing or game or music is too self-indulgent, too self-referential, too niche for anyone but yourself? fear not! you can do whatever you want forever. and you should.

[emily-e-draws]

RANDOM DASHBOARD INSPECTION!

[verflares]

just how long is forever? // not long enough, with you

pssst. check this out on inprnt :]

[quibbs]

just had SO much fun with the fallout tv show... i love you missus okey dokey

[reasonsforhope]

"In one of Africa’s last great wildernesses, a remarkable thing has happened—the scimitar-horned oryx, once declared extinct in the wild, is now classified only as endangered.

It’s the first time the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world’s largest conservation organization, has ever moved a species on its Red List from ‘Extinct in the Wild’ to ‘Endangered.’

The recovery was down to the conservation work of zoos around the world, but also from game breeders in the Texas hill country, who kept the oryx alive while the governments of Abu Dhabi and Chad worked together on a reintroduction program.

Chad... ranks second-lowest on the UN Development Index. Nevertheless, it is within this North African country that can be found the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve, a piece of protected desert and savannah the size of Scotland—around 30,000 square miles, or 10 times the size of Yellowstone.

At a workshop in Chad’s capital of N’Djamena, in 2012, Environment Abu Dhabi, the government of Chad, the Sahara Conservation Fund, and the Zoological Society of London, all secured the support of local landowners and nomadic herders for the reintroduction of the scimitar-horned oryx to the reserve.

Environment Abu Dhabi started the project, assembling captive animals from zoos and private collections the world over to ensure genetic diversity. In March 2016, the first 21 animals from this “world herd” were released over time into a fenced-off part of the reserve where they could acclimatize. Ranging over 30 miles, one female gave birth—the first oryx born into its once-native habitat in over three decades.

In late January 2017, 14 more animals were flown to the reserve in Chad from Abu Dhabi.

In 2022, the rewilded species was officially assessed by the IUCN’s Red List, and determined them to be just ‘Endangered,’ and not ‘Critically Endangered,’ with a population of between 140 and 160 individuals that was increasing, not decreasing.

It’s a tremendous achievement of international scientific and governmental collaboration and a sign that zoological efforts to breed endangered and even extinct animals in captivity can truly work if suitable habitat remains for them to return to."

-via Good News Network, December 13, 2023