TreeSearch

Research | Collaboration | Concept Art | UI/UX | Educational Game Design & Development

TreeSearch is an educational point-and-click game designed to teach Grade 9 students about ecological succession in the Canadian boreal forest. Within the gamified module, users look for key species and learn about their specific role in each stage of succession.

Click here to view the TreeSearch design document.

Team: Linda Ding, Amy Jiao, Joshua Koentjoro, Livia Nguyen, Vanessa Nguyen & Emily Tjan

Role: Lead UI/UX designer & Unity developer

Client : Prof. Michael Corrin, University of Toronto

Format : Web-based Unity application

Tools : Figma, Unity, Procreate, Miro, Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

A demo video of the Unity prototype that showcases the main gameplay features of TreeSearch.

Process Work

  • Ideation & Research

    Using a collaborative Miro board, we ideated on the focus and media for this interactive group project as well as begun research into the current Ontario science curriculum to see what gaps our project could fill.

  • UI/UX Design

    Once we determined the format of an educational game, we started solidifying the user journey and iterating on wireframes for the game and its interactive elements on Figma.

  • Paper Prototype Testing

    We created a paper prototype of our game to test our main gameplay features with our classmates. We then integrated any feedback we received into later iterations.

  • Title Screen Sketches

    Some concept sketches I drew for the game’s title screen.

  • Unity Development

    Going into the project, I had very limited knowledge about Unity. But with lots of tutorial watching and many office hours, my fellow Unity dev and I were able to learn enough to make a functional prototype of one game stage in Unity.

  • Team Photo

    The TreeSearch team!

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