Lazer

A minimalist iPad game

Project: Advanced Interaction / ECAL
Year: 2016
Role: Product Thinking, UX/UI Design & Development
Discipline: Game Design, Interaction Design, Creative Coding

Two hands holding an iPad running Lazer, showing white hexagonal outlines on a black screen — Lazer in play on iPad.

Overview

Lazer is an experimental game inspired by oldies such as the Vectrex. The goal is to immerse yourself in a minimalist world in which you must avoid lasers to survive.

Lazer — gameplay showing lasers to avoid on a black field

Lazer — a later level with a denser laser pattern

Built with

Unity

Xcode

The concept

Lazer draws inspiration from early vector arcade hardware, where technical limitations became the visual language: thin luminous lines against a pure black background.

The rules are reduced to a single verb: avoid. There is no score to optimise or inventory to manage — only lasers to survive. This keeps the experience focused entirely on movement, timing, and reaction.

Design & build

The visual system was intentionally stripped back so every element on screen carries meaning — a laser, a boundary, or the player. Interface elements were reduced to the essentials, leaving the action as the main focus.

The game was built in Unity with C# and deployed to iPad through Xcode, with touch controls refined around the precision and responsiveness required by the gameplay.

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