At the bench

Playful tools & games, from the lab.

Lemma Games turns real science into things you can play with, from a microscope builder simulator to a tennis match played on a churning sea of active matter.

Active nematic flow
Games

Published or Preprinted

Revealed games, available either now, or with source code published on github.

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Microscope Builder gameplay

Bez's Optics & Microscope Builder

Web · play in your browser

Assemble a working virtual microscope piece by piece, objectives, lasers, cameras, and learn how optics fit together on a bench.

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SciSwipe gameplay
Coming soon

SciSwipe

iOS & Android · mobile

Swipe through bite-sized science, a fast, addictive way to meet new ideas, papers and discoveries one card at a time, wherever you are.

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Active Nematic Tennis gameplay
Coming soon

Active Nematic Tennis

Steam · Windows & macOS

Rally across an active nematic liquid crystal, with 1 to 5 players!

About

We build at the intersection of science and play.

Lemma Games makes interactive things rooted in real science and the strange, beautiful patterns nature makes.

Projects are open-source, check out code at Bez's GitHub

3Projects in motion
3Platforms — web, mobile & desktop
Curiosity per release