The Game:

Help SpaceRex fix planetary corruption in this retro arcade style experience – Assist cancer research while you play!

The Game:

SpaceRex has returned from his adventures throughout the galaxy to find his home planet has been corrupted by invaders from outer space. Hop on corrupted blocks to neutralize them while attempting to avoid neutralizing uncorrupted ones. Take out the most corrupted rows by flipping the tiles on the bottom levels. You must also help SpaceRex avoid the angry invaders who want to thwart SpaceRex’s efforts to uncorrupt his planet.

The Science:

Did you know that your time spent playing SpaceRex can help in the fight against cancer? By interacting with a data clustering problem related to drug-resistant cancer research, you are actually contributing to real cancer treatment research. Through the use of BALANCED’s HEWMEN technology platform, this game allows you to virtually isolate promising combinations of medical compounds, which helps improve a machine learning AI used in actual cancer treatment research.

When you “neutralize” blocks in the game, you’re essentially removing ineffective properties of known medical compounds, thereby boosting the overall projected effectiveness of new compounds. This means that scientists can focus their time and resources on testing combinations that have the highest likelihood of positive outcomes, bringing us closer to finding new life-saving medicines faster in the fight against cancer. Your gameplay can help save real lives by giving scientists the best opportunity to find new medicines faster in the fight against cancer.