Zygote Games

About

Zygote Games is a small independent publisher founded by game designer James L. Cambias and biologist Diane A. Kelly, a married team who design their own games. Its stated mission is to produce fun-to-play games that also teach players about science, inspired by research showing that children recognise more Pokemon animals than real ones by age eight. The catalog consists of two science-themed card games: Bone Wars: The Game of Ruthless Paleontology, which simulates forming and testing a scientific hypothesis during the late-19th-century Dinosaur Rush, and Parasites Unleashed!, which uses colo…