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If you’re a fan of city-builders, Life Below<\/a> should already be on your radar. It’s a very different take on the art of metropolis construction that swaps out the tenements and skyscrapers of your standard SimCity-likes for constructing glittering coral reefs as you attempt to revive collapsing marine ecosystems. It looks utterly beautiful, is developed with input from actual marine biologists, and has a story written by Rhianna Pratchett, whose other credits include Mirror’s Edge<\/a> and the excellent 2013 reboot of Tomb Raider.<\/p>\n

It’s a game with a worthy message, but developer Megapop has now made it so that Life Below can have a more direct impact on the precarious existence of the environments it portrays. Megapop has teamed up with the nonprofit organisation Whale and Dolphin Conservation<\/a> to release a special supporter pack for the game that will help support the life of marine mammals.<\/p>\n

The charity pack adds three new species to Life Below who will visit your restored reefs, namely the common bottlenose dolphin, the Atlantic spotted dolphin, and the harbour porpoise. You can watch them frolic around your corals and learn more about each species through an in-game guidebook which Megapop says is “inspired by real marine biology.”<\/p>\n

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