The game occurs in real time...

...so you can play as little or as long as you want.

Simulate your life, or just play 🚀

Eat a kebab...

...take a walk to the Eiffel Tower...

...even check out what's going on in environmental politics...

...you can do whatever you want, realistic or totally ballistic, in the BioScape world — all while seeing exactly how much carbon each of your activities emits 💨💨💨

The carbon meter 📈

You can track everything your avatar does, eats, or buys on the app's built-in carbon meter. Just select the activity, item consumed, or item purchased to add it to your avatar's daily carbon consumption.

🎮 Game mode 🎮

While exploring and living your avatar life, you can play 3 different types of real-time games.

Games are linked to places you go on the map, whether you're in GPS mode or simulator mode. If you're in GPS mode, you'll be able to play games within a close range of physical proximity; in simulator mode, you can send your avatar to whatever gaming centers you want!

1. Mission Mode 🏃

In Mission Mode, you'll get assigned a task–related to the place where you or your avatar are.

Museums and cultural centers, for example, contain mini-quizzes about sustainable art which you can complete for points...

...and even sitting around in your own home will give you access to a race against the clock to turn out all the lights in your apartment, as you would if you were going out for the day with the planet in mind.

You might click on a random building and click on "Mission Mode”.

You read the rule of the game:

"Maddie was late this morning and left her apartment without paying attention. She will be away for a month. Lights are still on, top water is still running, the TV’s still on… help her correct all of these mistakes and decrease her carbon footprint today. You have 30 seconds."

When you complete the game, it will be written on your screen how much you reduced her footprint.

Switching 4 lights off: 4*48.4g of CO2 per hour = 139 kg of CO2 for the month = 139 packages of flour 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞

Turning the TV off: 0.088 kg CO2/viewer hour = 64kg / month = 64 packages of flour 🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞

⏳ Sample Mission ⏳

Direct your avatar to the Centre Pompidou, Paris’s premiere museum for contemporary and modern art. 🎨

Once you’re there, click on the museum, and let the game begin !

You’ll be asked to help decide which sustainable art should be brought into the museum’s collection. A series of pictures of art pieces that the museum is considering buying will show up on screen.

Scroll through them, read the description of the materials in each one, and you’ll be able to choose the one that is the most ”sustainable” in terms of its composition, production, and the mission of its creator.

2. Duo Mode 👯

In Duo mode, you play with another player (which may be someone on your friends list, or someone you don’t know, if you’re open to it !).

3. Challenge Mode 🕑

Every day, there is a « challenge of the day ». It is something you, as a player and app user, need to do in real life, like « take public transportation » etc. If you take a picture to prove you did it and upload it to the app, you’ll earn one footprint.

You registered as a daily driver on Bioscape. You usually take your car. One of the challenges of the day will be related to the “transportation” category, as it has to do with what impacts your carbon footprint the most.

You'll see a blinking C on your screen in the upper right corner (for “Challenge of the day”) to tell you that you need to complete the “challenge of the day”.

When you click on it, this text will appear:

“Challenge of the Day: Take public transportation: Save money, Save the world. Don’t forget to share a picture.”

You decide to do it, and instead of taking your car, you take the metro.

You can plug in your trip starting point and destination on the app, and the app will calculate the impact you had by not taking your car. You'll even get a visual representation using everyday items of how much carbon you actually saved.

Metro:

La Défense ➡️➡️ Bois de Vincennes : 57.76 = 0.05 kg CO2 = one egg 🥚

Car : La Défense ➡️ ➡️ Bois de Vincennes : 3240.00 g = 3.2 kg CO2 = 65 eggs 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚

Daily Trivia Challenge 💡

if before 8pm on any given day, you’ve succeeded in doing 1 duo, 1 mission and 1 challenge, you can participate in the HQ trivia-style Daily Trivia Challenge.

The game consists of 10 questions about the relationship between humans and the environment.

The questions are multiple-choice with three options, and you have 10 seconds to answer each one. ⏱

The game plays live every day at 8pm GMT, so you can see how many people are playing; plus, it's linked to the built-in MapBox GPS map, which allows players, if they opt in, to see where other players in their area are and check out their stats in the game. 📊

Now it's up to you !

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