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Martian Boneyards

Blue Mars Science Center: Designing a Virtual Science Learning Environment

Lead Staff:
Jodi Asbell-Clarke
Teon Edwards

Summary

Through the Blue Mars Science Center project, 聽and Virtual Space Entertainment (VSE) developed聽Martian Boneyards鈥攁 game of scientific collaboration in a high-definition massively-multiplayer online environment (MMO) called聽Blue Mars.

Martian Boneyards, which launched in 2010 and ran for four months, presented an unfolding story set in the terraformed world of聽Arcadia聽with a mystery about how bones and artifacts came together near the outskirts of the region. Players hunted for the bones and other artifacts, compared, sorted, identified, measured, and otherwise analyzed them,聽and used their findings as evidence to build and revise claims about what may have occurred.

Martian Boneyards聽raised many questions that required scientific investigation and the game rewarded players for gathering and analyzing data and eventually using the data of the community to build evidence-based claims about what happened in the boneyards.

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