QuestaGame
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | Free | KR Consultancy Services Pty Limited | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
QuestaGame takes you outdoors - to your backyard, a local park, a hiking trail, anywhere. Join quests and compete with other players to photograph animals and plants in the wild.
The game includes all species in your country, using national and global databases.
See which birds, insects and other wildlife are more easily spotted in your location at the current time of year. Then join quests, earn gold, buy supplies, gain levels, build your collection, join clans, conquer territories, move up the leader board and become one of the great adventurers of all time.
All sightings are geo-tagged with location, date, time and submitted to your country's national database -- so you're not only mapping your conquests, you're also helping scientists, researchers, planners and others record and protect you region's biodiversity while you play.
Some important features:
- Head-to-Head Challenges.
- Comms featured allows you to see what the community is up to.
- And more.
For more information be sure to visit http://www.questagame.com
Reviews
Crashes
Sweetnlow23
Crashes every time I select an observation synced from my inaturalist account. Only reason I downloaded was bc of the inat partnership so until they fix this, I’m not interested.
Quests game
ZAckrisson
Great way to learn more about nature & get outside! Start kids early & find the magic of finding new things to learn about everything from birds to bugs!
Excellent introduction to citizen science
NoveiraSS
Questagame is one of a few emerging citizen science apps, but stands out by its unique approach to getting people out of the house. The incorporation of a "video game" styled experience is a great start towards encouraging new generations to see the sky once in a while. Keep it up guys.
Strange, rude, could be better
scserpents
The scoring system is supposed to depend on rarity, yet a daily find here is worth more than a migratory find. The "sighting accepted" email from the verification people are flat out rude and extremely condescending. Majority of species missing, yet when you add it, you're told its that but more likely something different.....huh???Personally I'll be deleting my account and app from both my iPad and phone. A good idea but poorly executed.
A few issues, but great potential.
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First off, I’d like to make clear that you should not be discouraged from downloading and using this app, it has some issues, but with more downloads I hope the creators will further develop QuestaGame. I haven’t reported too many sightings as of yet, but I like the idea of expert feedback. When I first tried to search species, they weren’t coming up. From what I’ve found it seems that the search works every other time you stop typing. For example: if you type “Canada Goose” fairly quickly without pausing, it will appear and you can chose the correct option. If you type “Can” and pause for a second, a bunch of options will come up, and if you finish writing “Canada Goose” without pausing this time, no options will appear. When I submitted my first few sightings, this made me think that they had very few species in their data, but I did get used to the strange searching. Another thing that I didn’t like was the fact that you can only report a few sightings per day. I understand this is to limit the amount of gold you can get, but 4 a day seems to discourage me from using the app a lot. The gold you receive for rarity seems to be a bit inconsistent, for example: I received 79 gold (in the sighting rarity category) for my report of a Greater White-fronted Goose. This species of goose is expected in Massachusetts USA this time of year, but rare. They are not extremely rare, but the farthest east their normal migration route goes, is to Illinois. Like I said, a few Greater White-fronted Geese are always seen in MA this time of year, but definitely not considered common. The reason that the number of gold received is strange, is because for the same category, (sighting rarity) on my report of a House Finch, I received 95 gold. House Finches are not a bird that I would consider extremely common, but they are very common feeder birds in Massachusetts at any time of year because they are non-migratory. The last (very) small issue I have is formatting, the app isn’t super pleasing to the eye and navigation is a bit difficult at times. The feel of it is a bit underdeveloped, but not that bad, like I said, it’s just a small issue. If all of these problems were resolved, there is no doubt that this would be a 5 Star app, it has great potential! I love the idea of collecting species, and the fact that experts review them is wonderful, it gets people outside and exploring, and it can teach people so much.
