squarefoot.earth
Squarefoot Earth is a game platform that crowdfunds nature conservation by turning real properties into explorable 1:1 digital maps. Players sponsor actual land, view real trail camera and iNaturalist feeds, and learn species identification through interactive keys. The platform plugs each new conservation property in as an expansion pack, starting with conservation districts and land trusts.
- Gaming & eSports
- Clean Technology
- Software Only
- Education Technology
Funding
Founders
Founder details are not available yet.
Product
Problem
Conservation organizations struggle to secure consistent public funding and engagement, leaving land trusts and preserves with limited channels for fundraising and education. Traditional donation models fail to build lasting emotional connections between everyday people and the specific ecosystems they could protect.
Solution
Squarefoot Earth provides a game platform that transforms real conservation properties into explorable, 1:1 digital maps, allowing players to sponsor and virtually visit actual land. The game populates its world with real camera footage from trail cams, nest boxes, and iNaturalist observations, so everything a player sees reflects an actual detection on the property. Players learn species identification through interactive ID keys and collect observations in a digital field journal. The platform streams videos and live content of real stewardship work—like invasive pulls and habitat plantings—helping players follow the people doing the work. As a platform, each new conservation property plugs in as a new map expansion pack, creating a growing network of sponsored lands.
Target Audience
Primary users are nature enthusiasts, gamers, and conservation-minded individuals looking for an engaging way to support real land protection, as well as conservation districts, land trusts, and preserves seeking new fundraising and educational channels.
Features
- 1:1 spatial representation of real conservation properties as explorable game maps
- Real-time integration of trail camera, nest box, and iNaturalist observation feeds into the game world
- Interactive species identification key covering leaf shape, growth habit, and field marks
- Digital field journal system that records every observed and identified species as shareable cards
- Live streams and video content of on-the-ground conservation stewardship activities
- Scalable platform architecture where each new property becomes a new map expansion pack