Phil's Laberia
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Welcome to Phil's Laberia, an educational game about bioengineering! This summer, you are working in the Stanford iGEM Lab! Follow along as Phil and his colleagues guide you through lab protocols, and who knows, maybe you'll learn something new!
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The Motivation 
Phil's Laberia was designed and developed in order to create an accessible form of bioengineering education. Wet lab skills are hard to digest and very expensive, making them difficult to access within secondary education. Our team wanted to create an educational game where students can reinforce the basic steps to common bioengineering techniques, while having the ability to read and comprehend the science behind these ideas.
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Controls 
- WASD / Arrow Keys - Walk
- E - Interact
- Z - Previous Dialogue
- X - Next Dialogue
- Mouse - Drag, Drop, and Click
- Drag and Drop items between inventory slots
- Drag and Drop items from inventory to workbench slots
- Click to pick up items
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Content 
Current - Version 1.0 (Aug. 23, 2023)
- Lab Tour: Learn lab safety and about lab machines
- DNA Extraction: Extract Jellyfish DNA
- PCR: From extracted DNA to a gene fragment
- Gel Electrophoresis: Measuring DNA by size (bp)
- Gibson Assembly: From gene fragment to plasmid
- Streaking Plates: Culture bacteria on a petri dish
- Liquid Culture: Culture bacteria in a tube
- Transformation: Insert foreign DNA into bacteria
- Miniprep: Extract and purify plasmid DNA from bacteria
Future Updates - Version 2.0
- Arcade Style (Easy, Medium, Hard): Put those skills to the test!
- Trash Cans: Throw items away
- Full Screen Availability & UI Responsiveness: More accessible to all devices.
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Credit
Art, Code, and Game Design
- Ngoc Tran, Stanford iGEM Team '23
Game Dialogue
- Julia Vu, Stanford iGEM Team '23
Music and SFX
Background music by Alex McCulloch
- "Lay Low"
- "Forest"
- "High"
- "Jay"
- "Red Moon"
All SFX are under Public Domain
- Peludo - Water Noise
- NenadSimic - UI Click Noise
- themightyglider - Ice / Shovel Noise
- farfadet46 - Pop Sound
Comments
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A really meaningful game to educate students lab skills! This game does help a lot and thank you for presenting it in such a cute way! :)
I love this game. It’s so much fun. It makes laboratory more accessible to all of us, allowing us to grasp the lab fundamentals at our own pace. It's a delightful way to learn!
WOWW! THE GAME IS SO WONDERFUL! Such an amazing approach to learn lab techniques. I am literally feel that I am working at lab! Great job coders, writers, who all involved in creating this game. I really like the interface as well as design and button sounds's that's so cute:3> wish u all the best guys
Very fun and cute way to learn more about lab work. Thank you!
This game is really good! The explanations are clear and fun to read. Thank you!