Nicole Larson teaches undergrads about composites engineering. Luckily, Justin Hylarides said, the team found a professor who’s “absolutely bonkers about doing this project.” Some companies already use mushrooms to package things like wine bottles, growing mycelium inside molds to cradle glass bottles for shipping.īut the road to make hard game pieces is a little different. The isle is the largest in Asia and has one of the oldest rainforests in the world, at about 130 million years old. This local game, however, features more diverse critters and hones in on a real place. Just like the rainforest, everything is interconnected.įor board game aficionados, compare “Biome: Borneo” to the award-winning game “Wingspan,” where you’re the steward of an ecosystem trying to attract birds to your preserve. Play plant tiles in the appropriate zones to build an ecosystem hospitable to your animal cards. The game features a 3-D, rearrangeable board representing the understory, canopy and emergent layer of the rainforest. “I’ve got like 200 mushrooms just sitting in my place right now,” he said. The trio eventually wants to use recycled fishing nets and reishi mushrooms to make the game. A single tree can host a thousand insect species. The island of Borneo’s tropical rainforests feature over 15,000 plant species, 6,000 of which aren’t found anywhere else on the planet. The game features flora and fauna from one of the most biodiverse places on Earth. His Stanwood-based team of three plans to launch the first version of “Biome: Borneo” next month.
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STANWOOD - Justin Hylarides has a house full of mushrooms and an idea for a board game.