FathomVerse

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

About this game

Are you ready to embark on a journey of exploration and discovery? FathomVerse is an immersive mobile game that offers a visually stunning experience of the ocean world and contributes to cutting-edge science. By playing FathomVerse, you can help train the AI researchers use to find and identify animals in real ocean imagery.

Features include:
- Play minigames to view imagery collected by researchers and discover ocean animals.
- Hone your skills and learn how to identify more than 50 groups of ocean animals.
- Save and share your favorite images, and curate a personal gallery.
- Participate in quests and earn badges for your gameplay contributions.
- Unlock awards to expand your knowledge of ocean animals and 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 discovering all ocean life.

Ratings and reviews

Relatively clear instructions, and a fun little time-filler. The controls for Illuminate mode are clunky, though, and I wish there were 1) a way to annotate flags (poor-quality image vs classification, at least!) and 2) a more in-depth resource on the taxa than the basic bullet points on training dives, especially for more esoteric groups or those very similar to unrelated groups.

Really cool game! I feel like I'm learning while also teaching AI! My one piece of feedback is it's difficult to discern the different overlapping "paths" when going on a dive. I don't know if it would take away from the illusion of swimming to much to have some kind of highlighted path instead of just vague bubble clusters, I think that could make it feel less overwhelming when first starting.

I am learning so much! The music is soothing and the simplicity of the game and layout is great! It is also stunning to know once you start the expedition section you are viewing some of the images for the first time and helping identify the species! Although, some of the images are a bit out of focus or are close up shots it is still fun to figure it out. The game is like a matching game, very specific matching, so it is definitely a great challenge! Thank you everyone involved in creating this