Hi Mr. Scherz! Since you didn’t like the design of metazooa, do you know of any other similar games that you liked more?
I play this great game called 'iNaturalist' where you can sit and try to help identify organisms based only on photographs and locations. Amazingly, the photos are all taken by real people and show real organisms, and even better, by helping to ID things (as long as you are doing it competently), you are actually contributing useful scientific information!
You can search by location and/or organism. So, say I want to go and look at all the orchids observed in Texas… I can just get a list of orchids that have been observed there, and go through and ID whichever ones I know.
This is a FANTASTIC way to get familiar with a fieldguide to a specific kind of organism for a specific area. So, say you want to get good at identifying frogs of Australia. You buy one of the books on Australian frogs, open up iNaturalist, and go through and see if you can key out/identify each photo. You have to take into account that the fieldbook might be outdated, but still, this is *super* useful.
Important: the app for iNaturalist is only really good for uploading your OWN observations (oh yeah, you can do that too!). If you want to play the ID game, I strongly advise using the browser version.
