MICROCOSMOS EXPLORER
with ARIS Games & Keeploop
Current language for this game: English & Castellano
Microcosmos Explorer is a Locative Game where you have to help the french botanist Gaston Bonnier to plant seeds at the right place in a botanic garden. You will have to use a microscope to play with the ARIS Games adventure app.
GPS Museum Lab
Gaming the Microscopic World with Smartphones
Presentation of the game
Small gardens with plants from different geographical areas grow at the University of Murcia, Espinardo Campus. In this game developed on the ARIS platform, three of these gardens are used to play the game: the Eastern Mediterranean, the Rose Garden and the Garden of the Hesperides. These three areas are linked by a greenway, which can be accessed by bike or on foot. The guide for this game is a posthumous avatar of the botanist and educator Gaston Bonnier, who tells us where to find seeds on the campus. Once we get the seeds, we receive instructions for planting them in the most appropriate place. Gaston teaches us to recognize the different flora families on the campus and show us how to improve our perception. He give us microscopic images of plant leaves which we must be matched to their sources to determine the best place to sow our seeds.
GPSM Lab
The game: 1- Catch the seeds lost on the floor by the french botanist Gaston Bonnier 2 - Find the right place to plant the seeds 3- Compare the plants with the digital samples on your smartphone with the help of your microscope.
We use diagrams with micro QR codes, a original concept by Keeploop.
The modules and resources we use for this game:
Superuser