Chichi Reef Warrior is a free Educational Serious Game about a fish called Chichi who has the ability to clean up pollutants, thus cleaning up reefs, river beds, and other aquatic environments.
Developers One3One4 in collaboration with Flip Design Pvt Ltd are reviving the iOS version onto the Android platform, gearing up for a release on World Oceans Day, June 8th.
World Oceans Day 2015 Theme: Healthy oceans, Healthy planet
They are also trying out a new concept whereby relevant brands/NGOs can display their messages through the game. If you are into conservation, you can contact the developers and work together with them to include your brand!
Gameplay is about dragging Chichi to clean the toxins polluting the
ocean, while avoiding predators; swirling Chichi around gigantic oil spills to
contain them; saving trapped fish inside plastic bags; trapping predators and diving
to unearth treasures of the ocean. Players complete the levels by guiding Chichi
over the reef bed, cleaning and collecting jeweled hearts.
In the game, players learn that small herbivorous fish to large
predatory one, all find food and protection on coral reefs, which also protect
shores from strong currents by acting as a barrier.
Oil & fertilizer drain into the ocean, and tons of waste, mostly
plastic, end up there. Players then realize why plastic waste is harmful
to marine life as in marine environments many animals confuse the plastic
littering the oceans with food:
Corals get energy from photosynthesis by
symbiotic algae living within their tissues, but they also feed on a variety of
other food including zooplankton, sediment and other microscopic organisms that
live in seawater. Researchers have found that the corals eat plastic at rates
only slightly lower than their normal rate of feeding on marine plankton. The plastic
is often found deep inside the coral polyp wrapped in digestive tissue.
Turtles confuse plastic bags with jellyfish and
birds confuse bottle caps with food. They can’t digest them so their stomachs
fill with plastics and they starve to death.
Players also learn that warmer water temperatures can result in coral
bleaching. Corals get their brilliant colors from algae in their tissues. When
water is too warm, corals will expel the algae living in their tissues causing
the coral to turn completely white. This is called coral bleaching.
Ocean Acidification, caused by the uptake of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) from the
atmosphere, is another theme addressed in-game. The ocean absorbs about a
quarter of CO2 we release into the atmosphere, so as atmospheric CO2 levels increase, so do the levels in the ocean.
Seawater and carbon dioxide combine in the ocean to form Carbonic Acid.
Ocean Acidification decreases the availability of Calcium Carbonate necessary
to build shells.
Interested Android users may now join the Google+ MGTesters community
to test the Beta version at https://plus.google.com/communities/113359347440604692136,
trying it out and sending valuable feedback. It is also available as a Facebook
Canvas, Unity3d game, at https://apps.facebook.com/chichireefwarrior,
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