Credit : SciFunGames

Abstract

Exographer is an exploration game based on particle physics. In Exographer, players use gluonic boots or a photon sphere to overcome obstacles while discovering, one by one, all the elementary particles of the Standard Model. The levels are inspired by real laboratories (giant colliders and detectors, neutrino underground facilities, cosmic ray observatories…). A lost civilization built on real physicists such as Wolfgang Pauli or Marie Curie follows a timeline that is transposed from the real discovery history.

The game was conceived within the Science & Videogame academic chair of École polytechnique (under Ubisoft patronage)

IPPOG presentation (2024) : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1419411/contributions/6157427/attachments/2975219/5237264/Exographer4IPPOG.pdf

Contact

Authors :

• Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, CNRS / École polytechnique)
• Thomas Vaulbert
• Tony Cottrel

Supported by :

• Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet CNRS / École polytechnique

Related IPPOG Collaboration member :

• France

Contact :

• contact [at] scifungames.com

Project status

Ongoing (updated 2025-04-07)

Files & Resources

• Website :
  – https://scifungames.com/exographer/
• Academic publications :
  – https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.1166
• PC plateform (EN/FR/SP/IT/DE/JP/PT/RU/CN) :
  – https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834320/Exographer/
• Game Trailer (EN) :
  – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc5N95gyW8I
• Academic chair website (FR) :
  – http://www.sciencexgames.fr/