POLLN8 · about
A game that brings you closer to the living world.
POLLN8 began with a simple idea: what if a game could make people feel closer to the
living world? Instead of scores, timers, ads, or pressure, it invites you into a quiet
meadow, to guide a bumblebee, wake the landscape, and meet the pollinators who help real
ecosystems thrive.
No ads · no timers · no leaderboards · no in-app purchase pressure
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About POLLN8
POLLN8 began with a simple idea: what if a game could make people feel closer to the
living world?
Instead of scores, timers, ads, or pressure, POLLN8 invites players into a quiet meadow.
You guide a bumblebee from flower to flower, wake the landscape through pollination, and
discover the native pollinators that help real ecosystems thrive.
It is designed for children and adults, but it is not built like a typical game. POLLN8
is slow on purpose. Calm on purpose. Curious on purpose.
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Wake the meadow
Pollination can be hard to explain with words alone. But when a child drags a bee across
a flower and watches the meadow bloom, the idea becomes something they can feel.
That is the heart of POLLN8.
A flower opens. A new pollinator arrives. A meadow grows more alive. Over time, players
meet bees, butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, hoverflies, and beetles, each with its own
role in the world.
- Bees
- Butterflies
- Moths
- Hummingbirds
- Hoverflies
- Beetles
The game does not quiz players. It does not grade them. It lets them notice.
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Built by XPDSHN
POLLN8 is created by XPDSHN, a private foundation built to fund and
support creative, educational, ecological, and human-centered work.
Revenue from POLLN8 helps support XPDSHN projects, including pollinator education,
habitat work, and storytelling experiences that connect people back to nature,
community, and purpose.
POLLN8 is one piece of that larger mission.
The foundation behind POLLN8
XPDSHN
A private foundation funding creative, educational, ecological, and human-centered
work. POLLN8 is one of its projects.
Visit xpdshn.org →
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Connected to Bee The Difference
Bee The Difference is XPDSHN’s broader pollinator education and habitat
program. Where POLLN8 uses play to spark curiosity, Bee The Difference carries that
curiosity into the real world through pollinator learning, habitat ideas, and community
action.
If POLLN8 is the doorway, Bee The Difference is the path outside.
Players, parents, and teachers who want to keep learning can explore more pollinator
resources through Bee The Difference.
Keep learning
Bee The Difference
Pollinator learning, habitat ideas, and community action, the path from the game into
the real world.
Visit beethedifference.me →
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