Lab Rats is a minigame collection to be used in the education of biological technical assistants.
GENRE: Educational Game
PLATFORM: Android
ENGINE: Unity
TEAM: 4
DURATION: 12 months, shipped
TASKS: Gameplay / Minigames / UI Design
EDUCATIONAL MINIGAMES
Mix chemicals, balance a centrifuge, label flasks. Learn the basics of lab safety.
RISING DIFFICULTY
Prove your mastery as minigames get more difficult over time.
HIGH SCORE
Last longer than other players and save your score on the leaderboard.
Lab Rats was developed as part of the state-funded research project on "Goal-Based Learning in an Alternate Reality Setting" at the Technical University of Cologne.
I was a part of the Lab Rats project team from the beginning. As one of two designers in the team, my responsibilities in this project included:
• Designing the gameplay loop with an emphasis on learning,
• Co-designing and documenting 10 educational minigames based on the learning goals set by lab professionals,
• Balancing the difficulty curve with faster and more complex minigame variants (3 per minigame),
• Designing the visual tutorial system for all minigames,
• Visually prototyping user interface in After Effects.
