Aqua Marooned!
is a new card game premiering along with the nation-wide
Celebrate Trails
initiative and is available to play and take residence for free at 23
environmental centers across three states related to the
Alliance for Watershed Education
of the Delaware River (AWE).
Inspired and knowledgeable by the region’s Lenapehoking tribal group and
created by Philly-based immersive expertise firm Swim Pony, Aqua Marooned! is meant to be performed outside. Using vibrant
representations of vegetation, animals, and the setting in addition to a forged
of playful alien characters, the game’s richly illustrated playing cards forged
gamers as extraterrestrial explorers despatched to discover earth’s mysterious
“watersphere.” The game seeks to create a enjoyable and fascinating expertise for
gamers of all ages. Free game decks are available at
collaborating AWE nature centers
all through the region.
Though Aqua Marooned! takes inspiration from conventional get together
video games like Apples to Apples and Cards Against Humanity,
it is designed to assist individuals join with the outside. Players
set out in teams of three or extra to discover AWE websites, utilizing a core deck
of playing cards that playfully invitations “Crew Members” to name on their powers of
statement, inventiveness or wit. Card challenges embrace issues that ask
gamers to get artistic (
Find a useless factor and provides it a heartfelt eulogy. Most heartfelt wins.
), use their our bodies (Race to the nearest physique of water), and
replicate on the pure world (Define what “nature” is and is not).
Avey Norwood having fun with “Aqua Marooned!”
Aqua Marooned!
playing cards are designed particularly for the
23 Centers in the AWE Alliance
however will also be performed wherever outside. In addition to the core deck of
playing cards, 20 collaborating AWE websites have developed growth decks that includes
extra missions that may be folded into the fundamental game with content material
distinctive to their websites. Swim Pony has additionally developed a super-sized Lenape growth deck, created in collaboration with a
circle of native Lenape advisors, to offer gamers a chance to delve
into the Indigenous views on the land. For extra details about
the place to search out the game or occasions deliberate, go to the Lenapehoking~Watershed
web site,
or
for dates, instances and places.
Aqua Marooned!
was conceived by Adrienne Mackey, founder and inventive director of
Philly-based Swim Pony, an expertise
design firm that develops modern, immersive experiences of play.
During the course of its three-year improvement, the firm collaborated
with illustrator/graphic designers Meg Lemieur and Bri Barton, co-writer Brad
Wrenn, representatives from AWE Centers, and a Lenni-Lenape Advisory Circle
led by Trinity Norwood, Project Advisor for the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape
Tribal Nation. Members of the Norwood household performed the game for
a video filmed at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education
, produced by “15 Minutes” Inc. and
Gallantry Media.
More about Lenapehoking~Watershed Art Project:
The L~W Art Project is a multifaceted artwork mission that goals to introduce
Lenapehoking residents to their watershed. A program of the
Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River (AWE), this initiative winds its manner by way of the landscapes and waterways of the
Delaware River Watershed in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Aqua
Marooned! is one among two modern and utterly distinctive artist-driven
initiatives activating the AWE environmental training centers as a part of
Lenapehoking~Watershed. The different is Water Spirit, a collection of plant-based
sculptures by Sarah Kavage that function focal factors for occasions and
group gatherings. The identify, “Lenapehoking~Watershed, a place for water,
artwork and tradition” was chosen after consulting with residents of our native
Lenni Lenape Nations. “Lenapehoking” is a place identify which means “the land
of the Lenape individuals.” Foremost, as this is an initiative about the land
and the water, the L~W group acknowledges Indigenous cultures’ environmental
stewardship as crucial.
Lead assist for the Lenapehoking~Watershed is offered by the William Penn
Foundation, with extra assist from the National Endowment for the
Arts, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, The Barra Foundation, the
Delaware Division for the Arts, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the
Velocity Fund.
About Alliance for Watershed Education:
The Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River (AWE) goals to
elevate consciousness and appreciation of the 13,500-square mile system which
offers clear ingesting water for 13 million individuals. AWE is comprised of 23
environmental training centers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
that share a mission to collectively enhance and improve constituent
entry to and stewardship of the Delaware River watershed. Through aligned
communications, joint programming and shared greatest practices, AWE works
towards inspiring various communities and folks empowered to maintain a
wholesome Delaware River watershed. Visit watershedalliance.org for
details about AWE centers and programming.
Generous funding is offered by the
William Penn Foundation, which goals to create the long-term circumstances that can guarantee the
watershed helps aquatic life and recreation in and on the water.