United StatesAre you ready to embark on a journey of exploration and discovery? Introducing FathomVerse, an immersive mobile game, that offers a visually stunning experience of the ocean world and contributes to cutting-edge ocean research. By playing FathomVerse, you can help train the AI that researchers use to find and identify animals in real ocean imagery. Features include: - Play minigames to interact with real imagery collected by researchers and discover real ocean animals. - Hone your skills and learn how to identify nearly 50 groups of ocean animals. - Save your favorite images and curate a personal gallery. - Unlock awards to expand your knowledge of ocean animals and dive deep in how gameplay is used for improving AI. - Cycle through the Ocean Radio channels to shift the FathomVerse soundscape as you play. - Be among the first to view ocean imagery and discover new species. Download FathomVerse now and become a part of the community dedicated to unlocking the mysteries of our ocean.
It's a neat idea but the UI is really bad and frustrating.
Core gameplay loop is very slow and tedious, made worse by the "go faster" button, which gives you a short burst of speed but makes it far more likely you will overshoot the swirly dot and have to take a whole additional circuit around the loop to get back, since you can't reverse. 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.
United StatesWould love to contribute, but terrible UI
Directions are incomplete and confusing, and now, after I played one training game, it’s not letting me do anything at all. All I can do is shuffle endlessly between three introduction screens.
United StatesRelax and contribute to scientific knowledge
A simple, unhurried activity that turns your game time into something useful. The interface is simple but well-designed. I love seeing photos from both recreational and research dives.
United StatesMissed opportunity
Interesting idea but incredibly boring and buggy
United States5/5 !!!’n
v fun, but there are a few bugs. just minor stuff, music will sometimes trigger and layer over the usual background track, and its very loud. also, some text ran off screen in the intro.
United StatesNot ready for prime time
I was super excited to play but found the experience unintuitive and frustrating. After playing a couple rounds I got stuck in a feedback loop and was unable to pick a new species to train on. It didn’t save my previous game either. I’m only leaving this feedback because I know it’ll help you improve what’s sure to be an awesome game and valuable science tool eventually!
United Statescute ocean critters
super relaxing and I love discovering little ocean animals
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- Dive into a smoother experience with bug fixes. - Enjoy an enhanced onboarding process for an even more immersive journey. Update now and explore the wonders beneath the surface!
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