AEON - The Emergence of Life

In AEON, you and your friends represent prebiotic environments where Life might have emerged. Together, you build a network of chemical reactions that transforms simple prebiotic reactants into complex molecules. Eventually, these molecules will allow you to establish the basic mechanisms of life which make the reactions more efficient.
The first player to create all the requirements for the emergence of biological evolution wins the game.

AEON is already a fully developed game that you can print and play right now.
It was developed by scientists in the framework of the CRC 235 "Emergence of Life" funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

However, our budget is limited to produce a very small amount of professionally printed boxed copies, which will likely be purchased by the scientists in the community and partly given to the Deutsches Museum . In order to increase the amount of boxes we can print and give more people to enjoy the game, we decided for a crowdfunding campaign.

In supporting this project, you are supporting a new, playful way of science communication.
While AEON is both accessible and fun to play without knowing anything of the scientific background, you will also be learning about the mechanisms that scientists believe could have started life on our planet.

As the game is already fully developed, all the raised money will go into printing the game. As this campaign is not-for-profit, any surplus amount will be used to fund further scientific communication projects, including the free print-and-play version of AEON and a (free) classroom version for use at schools.