"concerned dino" facial expression to reinforce the feeling of cute tension in the game. Now each dino's visual identity is its own adorable way of expressing "Uh Oh!"

This is another #Identity post for this week's #BoardGameProtoHype theme on instagram (3/3)

My Little Pony characters- heart, moon, clover, star. That was our "double-coding" to make each dino unique for color vision purposes as well. When we did the final aesthetic pass on the game, we decided instead to do different patterned shapes on the dino's backs and give each dino a unique (2/3)

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You've got your trusty field notebook reference and you'll be arranging your diatoms on a board that's decorated like fancy papered slides of the Victorian era. These are just some of the ways the game uses form and function to invite you to take on a fantasy identity and play within that space.

To support that fantasy, we use the mechanics and components together. We ask you to "take water samples" from an algae pond by placing tiles then peering through an ornate lens to identify which algae species you've found. Then you collect those diatoms from little petri dishes.