Immune Defense, our video game, has a lot of potential. Scientists are impressed that many fundamental concepts are clearly and intuitively presented. Game players are happy because they get to do things, see the cells react and make decisions about what to make the cells do. The game has all its parts: cells to buy, receptors to add or subtract, signals to send between cells to activate them, bad guys to kill, bad guys with new methods for evading your killing. We have play tested each aspect, we know they are well received by a wide range of audiences. We focus on 16 year old students when we play test. While they like the complexity and the fun, they are also interested because the game is real. Adults who played Immune Defense at iFest, Seattle Indies Expo and at learning game conferences also enjoy the game: After mastering receptor switching and protein signal manipulation, almost every person turns to us amazed and asks, “Is this really how cells work?”
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We need help bringing the game to a polished state. We have removed most of the bugs from our prototype. Our game demo shows the potential to become an engaging casual strategy game. The game almost works on tablets, it just runs slow, and we know how to fix it. We have levels designed and we need to play test and iterate on them. We really have the potential to get molecular biology into the hands of a very wide audience.
You can help us not only by contributing money to our Kickstarter but also by joining our community. Your ideas, your reactions, your suggestions and your feedback are vital to polishing Immune Defense. We need players and scientists to keep talking with us as we polish up the game. We can iterate three times with the funds we have requested, but we’ll need play testers and feedback from you each time. This is why Kickstarter is a great game development idea as well as a fund raising plan.
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