Visit the Center for Game Science's Newest Projects!

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inkycatz Lv 1

Greetings Folders!

While we know you're already hard at work on the latest CASP competition, we thought we'd take a moment to talk about two new projects from the Center for Game Science: Nanocrafter and Flow Jam. These games build on what we’ve learned over the years working with you on Foldit, applying those lessons to brand new domains of scientific discovery.

Nanocrafter allows players to assemble molecular structures out of DNA. Novel designs in synthetic biology, as this new field is called, could benefit vaccines, cancer research, and more. Recently announced at the Games for Change conference at the end of April, Nanocrafter already has a rapidly growing community of builders. Help shape this new community and be sure to follow our alerts on Facebook and Twitter for the newest coverage!

Flow Jam, part of the Verigames project, is a novel approach to proving large and complex software programs free of certain errors. All newly developed software requires time-intensive testing by computers and human experts before the software can be considered reliable. If this sounds interesting to you, head over to the page and try it out, pop by the official forums, and follow our Facebook and Twitter accounts on that game for the latest news.

There’s never been a better time to contribute to scientific discovery and advancement through gaming! As veterans of Foldit we look forward to hearing your feedback on our newest efforts.

AsDawnBreaks Lv 1

It's great to see citizen science and crowd sourcing like this really expanding, and into many different areas! Also glad to see the CGS growing into several places.

BootsMcGraw Lv 1

Once again, someone has designed a game with a color palette that those of us with red-green color deficiencies cannot distinguish. And therefore, we cannot play.

Would love to help y'all out, but unless you develop a colorblind mode as you did for FoldIt, I will not be participating. Neither will at least the seven percent of potential players who can't tell orange from yellow from brown from green.