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Web Design

Vowel Squad
Browser Game

A 3D world for five letter heroes — A, E, I, O and U — where kids tag in the right vowel, in the right order, to catch every word.

Forest Level — Gameplay “Tag in the right vowel. Catch every word.”
Client Vowel Squad
Industry Children’s Education / Entertainment
Services Game Design
UX/UI Design
3D Web Development
Deliverables Browser Game
Fifteen Levels
Bonus Rounds
Client Preview Play the Game

“Five letters. Fifteen levels. One word at a time.”

The Vowel Squad started as a cast of characters — five vowels, each with its own color, built to make phonics feel like a team sport. The brief was to take that cast off the screen and put it in a child’s hands: a game that teaches how words are built without ever feeling like a worksheet.

We built a low-poly 3D world that runs right in the browser. Kids walk the squad through meadows, snowfields, forests, and Dino Land, finding the objects hidden in each level and tagging in the vowel that completes each word. The interface stays big, bright, and readable at a glance — chunky buttons, a squad bar keyed to the numbers 1 through 5, a star count for every level — while Buzz the Bee guides the way and bonus rounds reward the words they’ve learned.

Vowel Squad title screen with the show logo, Play button, the five vowel characters, and a level picker
01 Title Screen The show’s logo, one line of instruction, and a Play button — with all fifteen levels a tap away for teachers and parents.
Vowel Squad snow level, with the letter A character in a snowfield and the full squad bar unlocked
02 The Snowfield Each world has its own palette and its own words. The full squad bar sits at the bottom, one key per vowel.
Vowel Squad bonus round card for Dino Land, listing volcano, dinosaur, claw, bone, and egg
03 Bonus Round Before each bonus round, kids preview the words they’ll spell, shown as silhouettes they’ll go find in the world.
Vowel Squad Dino Land level, with the squad lined up behind Buzz the Bee near a dinosaur egg
04 Dino Land Buzz the Bee leads the squad through the level, calling out each vowel as the words are found.

Outcomes: A playable phonics world that opens in any browser — turning five vowels into characters kids control, and spelling into something they chase.

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