WASPADA HUTAN – EDUCATIONAL GAME

Year

2024

Role

End-to-end design and development partner

Timeline

10 weeks, discovery to launch

Scope

Game design, narrative design, web build, deploy

Team

Lead designer, Game developer, Frontend engineer

Key decisions

1. / 01

   Gamification over lecture

   Forest-conservation programs usually lead with statistics. We led with a guided play loop where the player makes the conservation decisions themselves. Recall after the session, measured in informal pilots, was materially higher than a slide-deck baseline.

2. / 02

   Mobile-first, no install friction

   Schools and community programs needed to share a single link, not a download. We shipped as a responsive web build with offline-tolerant assets so it runs on a borrowed phone in a classroom on patchy wifi.

3. / 03

   Indonesian-first language

   All copy, narrative beats, and instructional voice authored in Bahasa Indonesia first, with English as a secondary translation pass. The voice belongs to the audience, not to a foreign aid template.

Screenshots

“Morvis Dev took a vague educational brief and built something our facilitators could actually run in a classroom. The kids stayed in the game until the bell rang.”