Birk Marold<p>Do you remember the 2008? <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/spore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spore</span></a> that lets you play with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> starting as a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/protozoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protozoa</span></a> and you play to evolve to landfall and later space?</p><p>Like back then i still feel the only great part of this game is in fact the top down view playing your single celled organism, but i also feel it falls utterly short.</p><p>2008 was long before i became a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/microscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microscopy</span></a> nerd and before i learned about <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>medical</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiology</span></a> .</p><p>What i love about microbiology and microscopy is that its such an alien world that allows for endless magical discovery. Where a single cell is alive and buzzing like a whole city with complex dynamics and the view through a microscope that looks visually just stunning and so vivid that no game <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> can actually compete with it.</p><p>The game is there already, complex and alive, all around us.</p><p>Imagine a top down view just like the view through the microscope. Bright white background. you start as a single most basic bacterium. Invisible, of course. Here come different imaging and staining techniques into play.</p><p>Its an <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RPG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RPG</span></a> and you <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/levelup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>levelup</span></a> your bacterium. You eat, grow and evolve with a skill tree that reflects scientifically accurate abilities. evolve to break down cellulose for food, evolve a outer cell membrane and become a <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/grampositive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>grampositive</span></a> bacterium for increased protection, evolve to build out spores so if you die you can get revived, evolve to build out a flagellum for motility and speed. (post goes on in replies)<br><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/gamedesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gamedesign</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a></p>