Junior Explorers
Genre: Serious - Educational
Platform: Mobile & MobileWeb
Duration: 9 Months
Team: 10 members
Tools Used
Spreadsheets
Docs
Role
Primary: Lead Game Designer
Secondary: Sound Designer
Responsibilities
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Created game design documents for the main story as well as mini games.
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Worked closely with the narrative and content designer for crafting a fun player experience
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Created sound effects and background tunes using FL Studio and existing libraries.
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Edited sounds using Audacity and Adobe Soundbooth.
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Designed 10 mini-games for each of the 6 missions.
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Puzzle design, paper maps and level design, concept design and quick prototype of new game mechanics.
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Designed the mini games in order to fit game storyline.
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Playtested and balanced mini games.
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Worked closely with the client on product design. Suggested attractive and engaging products to go along with the Mission Kits.
Junior Explorers
"Our mission is rooted in the belief that you only protect something that you love and you can only love things you are connected to. From this belief, Junior Explorers was developed as a program to develop kids’ understanding of our planet, its ecosystems and species through fun and interactive missions. We built a program which is truly experiential, is both tactile and digital, and meant for kids to learn while having fun. Junior Explorers is dedicated to educating and inspiring the next generation of environmental stewards"
Junior Exploreres was featured on TechCrunch and won the Brain Child Award, Dr Toy's and Creative Child's Award for the Product of the year, 2015!
Experience
*Junior Explorers was a project initiated by the famous American animal and nature conservationist, Jeff Corwin, known as host and executive producer of the Animal Planet. I had the opportunity to work on this project as the lead game designer as well as the sound designer. Junior explorers was my first professional shipped educational title, during the process of development I learnt a lot of client servicing and interaction, worked closely with the content team as well as the narrative designer to help craft a fun experience for the children.
In Junior Explorers, each month the users get a new mission to play which featured a new reagion of the world. This was a great learning experience, where I research upon differnt regions of the world such as the Artic, Savannahs, Amazon, etc, about their ecosystem and natural habitat. It was very important for me to understand these regions in order to craft content around it for the player experience. I got to work with the best talent and take back learnings from seniors.
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