Exographer, a videogame based on particle physics
Pre-published on:
December 17, 2024
Published on:
April 29, 2025
Abstract
Exographer is a video game based on particle physics, released on September 26th, 2024. It puts this field of research in brand new (gamer) hands. 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. Exographer was imagined in a laboratory, by a particle physicist and member of the CMS collaboration, who brought together a team of videogame professionals in the research center of Ecole Polytechnique, France.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.476.1166
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