Really great game
Excellent game and educational experience!
Response from developer
So glad you're enjoying FathomVerse! Thanks for playing!
Fantastic Citizen Science Game
wondering if they have given up on making this app
The California Academy of Science makes an outstanding app called Seek for plant and insect
ID's which also (I believe)has a partnership with
another app called iNaturalist. Neither one of these is a game, but I use Seek daily.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for trying FathomVerse! It's great to hear that you're an avid fan of Seek - we were inspired by iNaturalist and strive to foster a similarly enthusiastic community around ocean imagery. Since we're just getting started, we'd really like to hear more about the issues you encountered so that we can ensure that FathomVerse is functional and fun. Please email us at fathomverse@mbari.org so we can connect!
I love this! ❤️🐠
Customization: It would be nice if you could change your avatar. Maybe you could change it to a picture you had favorited? Again, awesome game.
Response from developer
This is a great suggestion! Thanks for sharing. If you have more great ideas or would like to connect with the FathomVerse community, we'd love for you to join our Discord server! You can find the invite link on the hub screen. Onwards and downwards!
Amazing opportunity to contribute to ocean science from a device in your pocket
It's a neat idea but the UI is really bad and frustrating.
Controls between different sections are inconsistent - for example, after an expedition you identify animals by dragging stickers over them. But when you drag an "other" sticker over an animal and get more options for which animal it is, suddenly you have to tap the option you want, dragging doesn't work.
Sometimes you can drag an animal down to "collect" it for ID and it won't actually collect. If you're paying attention you'll notice it will only have a sparkly halo if you actually collected it, but if you're sleepy and not paying attention to the halos, you can apparently wash a whole run without collecting anything. It should not have a magic invisible zone that works for the drag and the rest of the screen doesn't; honestly it should just be a tap.
There's no way to get a second close look at a photo if you find that the community disagrees with you, which is frustrating.
I have yet to see metamorphosis mentioned in an identification guide for an animal that changes throughout its life.
The common look alikes section could be fleshed out a lot. It often doesn't even tell you how to tell the difference.
You can't access the identification guide while you're actually making your identification, only while you're deciding whether to collect the image.
The controls on the illumination mode were really bad. I don't even know how I was supposed to be controlling it. Tap and hold maybe? If I tried swiping to move it seemed really hit or miss if I'd go fast or slow. Trying to line up over an image was very awkward. A lot of the images had weird artifacting that looked like maybe the image was vertically tiling in a slightly too big space.
This app could be really cool if you get the UI ironed out and like I said at the beginning, it's a really interesting idea. Please hire a UX professional to at least give you a complete review and recommendations.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for playing FathomVerse and sharing your feedback! We're so happy to hear that you're interested in the game concept and we've captured your thoughts on the gameplay controls, UI, and the informational content for consideration as we make improvements and look towards our next major phase of development. If you have more ideas, our Discord community is a great place to connect share your thoughts with us.
Would love to contribute, but terrible UI
Response from developer
Thank you so much for playing and I'm sorry to hear that you ran into issues with the app. We recently published some updates to the training tutorial that should have addressed the bug you encountered. If you're willing to try again, we would love to hear if everything is working better for you now!
Near-perfect & Genius Way to Engage in Science!
A couple suggestions:
- On the final summary page post-dive when your IDs are being confirmed or graded, it would be nice to be able to click on the photo icons and see the magnified image again. Some IDs that I’ve gotten wrong (or more importantly ones that I’ve missed) I can’t quite tell what is in the photo.
- I don’t know how complex this would be to implement, but unlocking new “skins” for the dive player icon as you progress up the levels would be such an amazing incentive to progress.
P.S. THE MUSIC IS INCREDIBLE
Response from developer
Thanks for playing FathomVerse! We're so happy to hear that you're enjoying helping generate real training data as well as the music. We've captured your suggestions to magnify images on the scoring page and to be able to customize the avatar with skins for consideration in future development. If you have more ideas for how we can improve FathomVerse, be sure to check out our Discord community – it's a great place to connect with fellow FathomVerse players and share your feedback and suggestions directly with our team.
