As lower value pledges, plius a Coralbots project game! You will get an education-oriented and an entertainment-oriented game in one. The first release will be approx. Sep 2014; backers will also get all versions beyond that for free for 5 years. The game will be available at a cost to non-backers to help continued funding of our project.

How can we do this? We have access to a pool of very gifted and keen Computer Science students who need great things to do for their u/g and MSc projects.

Game mechanics? Think in terms of a team of coralbots that need to restore a reef system before their power runs out, then they go on to more and more difficult missions. The education vision will take you through elements of machine vision (you teach it to recognize coral, etc), swarm intelligence (rules that lead to co-operative emergent behaviour), and autonomous robot navigation, obstacle avoidance, manipulation, and so on. The entertainment version will be lighter on that / heavier on peril.

Quality? We're definitely not a games company. It will be playable, and the graphics may not be all that good, but future versions will get better.

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