AEON - The Emergence of Life | A board game for 2-6 players about the Origin of Life on Early Earth.

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It’s about 4 billion years ago. Earth has just recently cooled off enough to have water on its surface. Impacts of comets and meteorites have almost ceased. The sky is orange and dense with thick clouds, through which a faint Sun barely shines. A vast, greenish, muddy ocean covers almost the entire planet. The little dry land is black volcanic rocks and barren. But deep in the ocean and in a few oases, something is cooking: Life is about to emerge.

CRC 235 Emergence of Life

3,957 €

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About this project

Funding period 8/9/21 3:13 PM - 9/13/21 11:59 PM

Realisation August-September 2021

Start level 3,000 €

All the money will go into the production of printed copies of our game.

Category Games

City München

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What is this project all about?

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.

What is the project goal and who is the project for?

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.

Why would you support this project?

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.

How will we use the money if the project is successfully funded?

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.

Who are the people behind the project?

The game was designed by a group of Ph.D and postdoc scientist and illustrated by our amazing artist Priyanka Oberoi.

For more information see our homepage.

Bernhard Altaner

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CRC235 - Emergence of Life

CRC 235 - Emergence of Life is a cross-disciplinary network, in the long-term, aiming to experimentally demonstrate a cascade of mechanisms producing life from ordinary matter. This collaborative effort is funded by German Research Foundation (DFG).

Deutsches Museum

Founded in 1903, the "Deutsches Museum" (German Museum) in Munich is one of the world's largest, most respected and venerable museums of science and technology. At present, 40 exhibitions are on display encompassing an enormous range of subjects.