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Game Development for Education
Curriculum-aligned, accessible, and built to engage learners. We create educational games for universities, publishers, and schools. Our team has prior experience working with Cambridge University Press, the BBC, and the Museum of London through previous employment.
Designed Around Your Institution
From fully standalone educational games to gamified learning modules that integrate into your existing digital curriculum, we design interactive experiences around learning objectives and agree how to evaluate engagement. We build educational games and serious games for universities, publishers, and research consortia.
Your curriculum, available devices and reporting requirements shape what a learning game needs to do. We start with teaching objectives, accessibility needs, content ownership and the systems your institution already uses.
We scope curriculum alignment, accessibility and device support with your team, alongside privacy, data handling, languages and any LMS integration. The agreement identifies ownership of bespoke content and licences for existing tools and third-party components. See our educational game development service for our approach.
Find the right way to work together
See a shared system built for education
Read how one Unity system serves multiple language apps for The Language Conservancy through a shared set of mini-games.
Read the Vocab Builder case studyExplore educational game development
See our full approach to curriculum-aligned design, accessibility, privacy and LMS integration.
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Case Studies
Vocab Builder
Turning Language Data Into Playable Learning
One Unity repository, multiple language apps. How Ocean View Games built Vocab Builder to populate nine mini-games with language data through an API.
- Educational
- Serious Games
- EdTech
- Unity
Navigo
Engineering an Award-Winning Language Learning Adventure
How our team designed and developed Navigo - an award-winning tablet game with 15 unique mini-games across four languages for the EU Horizon 2020 iRead project.
- Educational
- Multi-Language
- Serious Games
- Award-Winning
Our Clients
Our Team's Track Record
Work from our team’s previous roles at leading studios and agencies.
Research Consortium
Built for Institutional Requirements
Curriculum-Aligned Design
Your learners stay on-syllabus. Every game mechanic ties directly to your learning objectives, so classroom time spent playing is classroom time spent learning.
Privacy & Data Handling
Each project is designed around the institution's confirmed privacy, data-handling and consent requirements, with data collection and third-party tracking kept to the necessary minimum.
Multi-Language Support
We plan for the languages and writing systems your project needs, with translation responsibilities and testing agreed during scoping.
Planned Around Your Hardware
We assess your existing devices early and agree a supported hardware list before development. Performance testing targets the devices and browsers your learners will use.
Connects to Your LMS
Where reporting integration is required, we scope it against your actual LMS, learner data and reporting requirements before development begins.
Accessibility Planned From the Start
We agree accessibility requirements with your team and test the relevant interactions on the target devices. Text, colour, controls and assistive technology support are considered against your learners' needs and the agreed scope.
How It Works for Institutions
Curriculum & Learning Design Workshop
We sit down with your pedagogical team to map learning objectives, target age groups, and assessment criteria. The output is a game design document aligned to your syllabus.
Prototype & Pedagogy Validation
We build a playable prototype and test it with a small learner group. Feedback from students and teachers shapes the core loop before full production begins.
Development & Accessibility Testing
We develop in Unity or HTML5, testing against the agreed accessibility requirements and supported device list, with privacy and data-handling reviews throughout.
Deployment & LMS Integration
We handle app store submission, web hosting, or MDM distribution. Where progress reporting is required, we integrate with the institution's agreed LMS or reporting interface after confirming its technical requirements.
Services for your project
Educational Game Development
We design and build educational games for publishers, universities and museums. Turn your learning objectives into a browser or mobile game. Discuss your project.
Explore serviceLegacy Game Modernisation
Upgrade older Unity projects or rebuild legacy games for modern platforms. UK engineers assess dependencies, preserve gameplay and plan a tested migration.
Explore serviceApp Store Launch Support
App Store and Google Play launch support for Unity games. Build checks, store listings, test releases and help resolving submission review issues.
Explore serviceGame Design Services
Game design services covering core mechanics, progression, game design documents and Unity prototypes. Turn your concept into a practical production plan.
Explore serviceWhat Our Clients Say
“David is very patient and has great communication. He is an appropriately skilled freelance Unity developer who understood our project goals from the beginning and worked with us diligently throughout our slow-burn design process. I am pleased that we chose David to develop version 2.0 of our Vocab Builder. Thanks David!”
Project: Vocab Builder
If your project is for a museum, gallery, or heritage site, you may also want to explore our museums and cultural heritage page.
If your project is corporate training or L&D rather than academic education, see our corporate training page.
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