Eco Defenders
 
 
 
 

Project Description

With some help from JASON Host Researcher Russell Cuhel, size up one of three ecosystems before designing an invasive species to infiltrate and disrupt, eliminating rival species and witnessing the rippling repercussions your invader has on the ecosystem as a whole.

Pick a defense mechanism to fortify your invader against the natives, color it to better blend with the environment you choose, select which trophic level it will inhabit (don't worry, you'll learn what this means!), and release it into the wild!

 
 
 
 

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Project Partners

The JASON Project

Ashburn, Virginia, USA

Using the cutting-edge research and researchers of its longtime partners - National Geographic, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - The JASON Project provides...

 
 
 
 

Project Dev Blog

Perfect Chaos

15 Jun 2010 by Dan Norton

Eco Defenders will always be one of my favorites among the games we've made. Science is often represented as a set of crystalline lenses you can hold up to the world and discern its essential underpinnings.

 
 
 
 

Project News

iLearn Thinks We're Swell

Thu 12 Aug 2010 - 10:53AM by Erin Mehlos

About a fortnight back, twitter user @ktenkely tweeted the following challenge to developers of learning games:

“Dear educational game makers, an online multiple choice quiz is not a game, it is a worksheet. Please stop...

3 New Games Live at JASON

Sun 18 Apr 2010 - 08:38AM by Erin Mehlos

Energy City, Transform It! and Eco Defenders are all live and...