We are excited to announce the publication of Fantastic Creatures of Twente and Where to Find Them, a creative culmination of the Nature Discovery Quest in the location-based game Mission Earth 2024 that we played in the summer of 2025 as part of the Mapping for Recreation project. You can download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/14931644.
Mission Earth 2024: A Location-Based Game with a Galactic Twist
This book is a report from Galaxy 9352 biologists, who ventured into nature to discover and describe the fantastic creatures that inhabit the Twente region. Using their creativity and AI tools, they produced this A-Z catalogue, which includes not only the stories of Earth’s species but also the coordinates of places where they can be found. Some of the hidden lakes discovered by our biologists cannot even be spotted on Google Maps! You can find a map of Twente and the locations of our scientific bases, explore species, find links to places, but also to sounds that some of the species are making.
Join our missions!
We invite you to explore the book, share it with young explorers, and consider how playful, creative approaches to citizen science can shape the future of environmental awareness, while encouraging place attachment. There is a lot of space for collaboration there! See the book for more details, and maybe you would like to contribute to its 2nd edition?