Quantum Spectre

Quantum Spectre (QS), part of an NSF-funded research study looking at engagement and learning in STEM games, is a puzzle-style game designed for the web and mobile devices where players use mirrors, lenses, and more to guide laser beams to colored targets. The science of light represented in QS is accurate, and we are collecting data to measure how players proceed in the game as part of understanding how people learn to deal with the scientific phenomena represented. QS also has level builders so players and educators can construct new puzzles. The story of QS’s design is one of balancing the science, the learning, and the gameplay.