Project participants give their opinion on various improvements and extensions of a game for tablets and smatphones that Inkubica Labs has developed. The game, called LightLab, is a simulation of optical phenomena that help learning concepts such as reflection and refraction of light using gamificación techniques.

We not only want to improve the learning experience of a single game, we want to draw lessons for the entire school community and apply them to the next generation of educational games.

Crowdsourcing in LightLab Project

LightLab Project collaborators give feedback and suggest improvements on different aspects of the game, such as:

- Usability and navigation. The rules of the games has to be learned without manual assistance.

- Additional texts: an educational game is not a textbook, but maybe is needed some written information that explains in more depth the optical phenomena simulated in the game.

- Scoring criteria and difficulty of each exercise to jump to higher game levels.

- Collaborative / competitive dynamics among students.

- Teacher or parent participation in the game.

- Dashboard features for teachers, parents and students.

- How to integrate the use of this game in a classroom.

- Personalized learning patterns based on student profile, to allow the game has different paths for each student.

- etc.

Professionals, educational publishers and educational institutions who want to participate in the Project LightLab should contact us (tomas.martinez @ inkubica.com)

LightLab Project young betatesters: 

With LightLab you will learn playing as the light changes track when passes through lenses of different forms or hits mirrors.

Phenomena such as reflection and refraction of light can become a game, solving challenges increasingly difficult, leveling up and wining points.

And if you want to train, you have a lab to experiment, and if you want to train, you have a laboratory to test and beat your friends.

If you also want to know more about optical phenomena, you can see the scientific notes accompanying the game.

LightLab in action:

Oceani is a friendly little mermaid. She’s happy, intrepid, studious and is into everything. She loves meeting new sea creatures and making friends.

¿Do you know who destroys the Clown Fish ‘s seaweed garden? Do you know how the Parrot Fish sleeps? Oceani teaches us these and other strange characteristics in an interactive way.

Discover the real and documented strange habits of the Mandarin Fish, the Octopus, the Clown Fish, the Parrot Fish, the Napoleon Fish, the Seahorse, the Butterfly Fish, the Shark and the Fiddler Crab.

The ingenious narrative, vivid animations and engaging interactions will keep the young reader captivated for days.

Features:
- 17 beautifully illustrated pages
- 17 highly interactive pages, in which children play with the characters
- “Read to me” and “Read by myself” modes
- Full version in English and Spanish
- Voices by professional native english and spanish storytellers
- Original soundtrack “Oceani” written specifically for the app
- Direct access to any page and character
- Free updates

Firstly published in Spain in 2010 by aquafonia