Kindling Care

Developers

Bush Fighters

Tobias Allen (Programmer)

Eva Haraguchi (Programmer)

Takuma Aoki (Game Designer)

Alexander Ribich (Game Designer)

Abigail Evans (Artist)

Development

2025 July - October

Status

Completed

Availability

https://ta-games.itch.io/kindling-care

Game Description

Use cold burn to keep the forest safe from the wild fire. Tile based puzzle game that is designed to teach young student from grade 4 to 6 about the importance of cultural burn to maintaining nature safe.

My Involvements

Designing

UI Placement
Game Mechanics

Playtesting

Programming

Early Prototyping

Bug Fixes

Gameplay Footage

Learning Outcome

One of the difficult part of designing this game was that it had the specific target audience and therefore we had to design the game that is easy to understand while presenting key messages of why cultural burn is helping the environment and how they are done in the actual life.

We couldn't deviate too much from the source material while ensuring the young students don't get bored and lost interests. This was a difficult to balance but ultimately it has a good complexity while retaining important aspects of cultural burn.

One thing that I spend time was layout of UI, as this game was designed to be played on mobile devices considering young students are more use to using those devices over computers.

The game is designed to only need a touch (left mouse press). I've never designed games for mobile devices and with the target audience in mind, it was the process that required lot of playtesting to ensure everything is understandable.