What Biosphere is

Biosphere is a small collection of browser games made for real college biology courses. Each one is built around a moment where you have to choose, connect or explain something — and then find out straight away whether the reasoning held.

How the points work

Every game reports what you managed: how much of a topic you got right, and how far you got. That becomes a single balance shared across the whole site, which you will be able to spend in The Wilds or The Grove.

Two things are deliberate. Your best result on an activity is what counts, not the number of attempts — replaying can improve a score but cannot farm one. And the two currencies are separate: mastery earns levels, finishing earns coins, so a student who wants a sofa is never forced to grind biology for it.

Your progress and your privacy

There is no learner account or sign-in. Your progress, answers, scores, and any name you enter stay in the browser you are using, on your device. Clearing your site data or switching computers starts you over. To improve the activities, the site sends daily aggregate usage counts: which activities are opened, active time, broad traffic sources, device sizes, and ChieMon battle starts by course and mode. The usage tracker does not send student names, answers, scores, player IDs, or full referrer URLs. Browser storage helps avoid counting the same visit repeatedly; it is not used to identify you. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are respected. You can turn usage counting off in this browser or turn it back on.

Nothing here is graded, and no instructor can see what you did. Play badly as often as you like.

Who makes it

Biosphere is built and maintained by biology faculty, with games contributed by different people. Each game carries its own credit.

If you teach and you want to build one, the plan explains what a game has to do to join.

Project background and related work: daijudesk.com