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Currently working on a take on Pokémon GO + Pokémon Snap but for birding. The goal is to explore your neighborhood, find birds, take good photos of them all. Ne
by xandrius 1y ago
Currently working on a take on Pokémon GO + Pokémon Snap but for birding. The goal is to explore your neighborhood, find birds, take good photos of them all. Next month, I'll be doing an event to find a rare bird, excited to see how it goes!
It's still a small closed alpha, if anyone is interested: https://testers.birdlego.com https://testers.birdlego.com
Here is a rough trailer of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpR8aafFjI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpR8aafFjI
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- bovermyer 1y agoOK, I would pay for this. Definitely following!
- thepuppet33r 1y agoI would pay for this. 100%.
- geysersam 1y agoWhat a good idea, sounds fun!
- thatguymike 1y agoOh I was hoping for this but with real birds in my neighborhood. Still neat!
- leros 1y agoI got super excited thinking this was for real birds. I would love someone to gamify birding.
- bix6 1y agoWhat’s missing from eBird?
- Barbing 1y agoCertainly gamified a bit as I learned from: LISTERS: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching https://youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo https://youtube.com/watch?v=zl-wAqplQAo 1.9m view | 2mo ago | 2hr long (buckle in, documentary by a couple young goofball brothers)
- leros 1y agoI want something more gamified. I want to go on missions or complete challenges or something. Not just identity and log stuff.
- xandrius 1y agoI'll think of ways to bridge the virtual world with the real world birding one. Let me know if you have any ideas for that :)
- Freeboots 1y agoI guess it's not intensely gamified, but I have a couple friends at like 80-90% on Merlin. It's their excuse to travel and live abroad
- araes 1y agoNot sure if this meets your criteria, yet iNaturalist [1] is kind of "gamified". Has a rather large "bird" taxon observation amount. 38,393,861 observations, 11,165 species, 1,130,700 observers, 188,988 identifiers (people who identify species from your pictures) When Romania announced that the Lesser Kestrel had returned after 100 years iNaturalist actually had several of the observations in the nearby area. [2] [1] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=3 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_i... [2] https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_id=59845 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?subview=map&taxon_i...
- nickthebirder 11mo agoThis is actually exactly what I’ve been working on as a passion project for the last year and a half: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wings-whistles/id6503321263 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wings-whistles/id6503321263 It’s basically a gamified version of Merlin. Would love any and all feedback! Birdle Go seems really cool, very impressed and would love to test that!
- leros 11mo agoAny chance you'll release an android version?
- nickthebirder 11mo agoYes! I’m aiming to release it by January at the latest. I’m using tflite rather than coreml so that the transition is easier.
- kulahan 1y agoDo you have any plans to provide this data to ornithological research groups? I know there's an annual event where people across the nation are encouraged to count the birds in their back yards and report it, so it seems like this kind of amateur birdspotting is valued in the scientific community.
- tgmatt 1y agoI'd be careful with the name and the way you're describing it, as Nintendo are notoriously litigious. Best of luck with the project, though!