WILD RANGER STUDIOS

Oakland, California

Conservation games, built with the people doing the work.

We make playable, real-place 3D games in the browser — phones and laptops, nothing to install — with the conservation organisations whose work the games are about. Playing is free. Buying a habitat in the game is a donation to the partner on the ground.

Mara the Elephant → Talk to us

Mara the Elephant launched on World Elephant Day, 12 August 2026, and is in a private preview with the Mara Elephant Project team while we finish the launch run.

First title

Mara the Elephant

You are a ranger in Kenya's Maasai Mara. The missions are the ones the Mara Elephant Project's rangers actually run: collar a bull, fly the patrol drone over the herds, walk into the maize after dark to turn a crop raid around, and build the camp back up afterwards.

Mara Elephant Project

In partnership with the Mara Elephant Project, Kenya.

A ranger beside a collared elephant

Collar the bull

Dart, collar and release — the data keeps the herd and the farms apart.

A patrol drone over the savanna at dusk

Fly the patrol drone

Night drone flights to find and move elephants before they reach the crops.

Elephants in a maize field at night

Into the maize after dark

A crop raid in progress. Keep the people, the harvest and the elephants safe.

The ranger team at camp

Meet the rangers

The ranger characters are modelled on the real team, with their consent.

The seed nursery at camp

Buy seeds, grow it back

Raise the headquarters, run the supply line, replant what the raid took.

Elephants at a waterhole

Befriend the animals

Elephants, the herds and the rest of the Mara, walking and feeding as they do in life.

PlatformBrowser 3D (WebGL / Three.js), phones and laptops
LaunchedWorld Elephant Day, 12 August 2026
MoneyFree to play; habitat purchases go to the Mara Elephant Project
StatusPrivate preview — public launch run starting now

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Kingdom Botimalia

A conservation world where the creatures are robots — botimals — and the preserves are real places: the Maasai Mara, the Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve in Nevada, more to come. Learn a species, earn a habitat, and the habitat you buy is a donation to the people who look after the real one.

  • Every animal starts from a photograph: photo → 3D model → rigged, walking, feeding creature, checked against the reference before it ships.
  • A kid mission creator: a child describes a mission in one sentence and the game builds a playable, safety-checked version of it.
  • In development. Mara the Elephant is the first world.
Night mitigation in the Mara

How we build

Small studio, real places, real partners.

Real placesWorlds are built from the actual terrain, camps and routes of the partner preserve.
Real partnersMissions, characters and figures come from the partner organisation and are reviewed with them.
AI-builtClaude Code is our engineering team: it writes and tests the game and runs the creature pipeline, with Claude judging each generated animal against its reference photos before a human review.
Open webNext.js and Three.js, no app store, no install, works on a phone.

Contact

Work with us

Conservation organisations, schools, grant partners and press: admin@wildrangerstudios.com.