Part of the NSF-Funded Math Snacks suite of games, Game Over Gopher  is an educational tower defense game that teaches kids about coordinate pairs and quadrants while touching on more advanced mathematical concepts. It was the gold winner at the International Serious Play Awards and the most played game on BrainPOP and the Math Snacks website.

My Role / What I Learned

I was involved since the early stages of design, where I met with the content experts and instructional designers to solidify educational goals and design game UI/UX, features, and mechanics. In addition, I programmed the entirety of the original Flash game and helped oversee its later Unity rebuild.

Designing this game involved creating a lot of prototypes, some of which changed greatly between iterations. The game is fairly robust, with multiple modes, achievements, many different towers, and even a treasure-finding mini-game.

Despite many challenges, the game came out great and it was quite gratifying to see it enjoyed in schools around the state, win awards, and tally up millions of online plays around the world.