Student-Created Facebook Game Tackles Real-Life Issue

The Center for Serious Play at the University of Washington Bothell released a Facebook game that hits really close to home: UWB Wetlands Restoration, based on the restoration of the wetlands located on the school's campus.

The Center for Serious Play at the University of Washington Bothell released a Facebook game that hits really close to home: UWB Wetlands Restoration, based on the restoration of the wetlands located on the school’s campus.

The object of UWB Wetlands Restoration is for players to build up the wetlands into fully functioning ecosystems.

The game-play cycle lasts 25 days, taking players through the equivalent of 50 years of evolution and progress.

In order to accomplish their goals, players follow an ecological concept called succession, which tracks the development of terrain and plants in the area, as well as the migration of animals.

Players’

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