Comment by xandrius
3 months ago
Currently working on a take on Pokémon GO + Pokémon Snap but for birding. The goal is to explore your neighborhood, find birds, take good photos of them all. Next month, I'll be doing an event to find a rare bird, excited to see how it goes!
It's still a small closed alpha, if anyone is interested: https://testers.birdlego.com
Here is a rough trailer of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpR8aafFjI
I got super excited thinking this was for real birds. I would love someone to gamify birding.
Not sure if this meets your criteria, yet iNaturalist [1] is kind of "gamified". Has a rather large "bird" taxon observation amount. 38,393,861 observations, 11,165 species, 1,130,700 observers, 188,988 identifiers (people who identify species from your pictures)
When Romania announced that the Lesser Kestrel had returned after 100 years iNaturalist actually had several of the observations in the nearby area. [2]
[1] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_i...
[2] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_i...
I guess it's not intensely gamified, but I have a couple friends at like 80-90% on Merlin. It's their excuse to travel and live abroad
This is actually exactly what I’ve been working on as a passion project for the last year and a half: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wings-whistles/id6503321263
It’s basically a gamified version of Merlin. Would love any and all feedback!
Birdle Go seems really cool, very impressed and would love to test that!
Any chance you'll release an android version?
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What’s missing from eBird?
Certainly gamified a bit as I learned from:
LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo
1.9m view | 2mo ago | 2hr long (buckle in, documentary by a couple young goofball brothers)
I want something more gamified. I want to go on missions or complete challenges or something. Not just identity and log stuff.
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Oh I was hoping for this but with real birds in my neighborhood. Still neat!
Do you have any plans to provide this data to ornithological research groups? I know there's an annual event where people across the nation are encouraged to count the birds in their back yards and report it, so it seems like this kind of amateur birdspotting is valued in the scientific community.
I'd be careful with the name and the way you're describing it, as Nintendo are notoriously litigious. Best of luck with the project, though!
I would pay for this. 100%.
OK, I would pay for this. Definitely following!
What a good idea, sounds fun!