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AI game centre · Strategy and learning

GrandMaster

Every move becomes a lesson, not just a result.

Year

2026

Disciplines

Digital Product · AI Experience · Education

Role

Product strategy · Game experience design · Learning-system architecture · Visual direction

Conceptual editorial image of an adult learner and coach studying a chess position with an optical analysis tool

The project

An intelligent multi-game strategy centre combining adaptive opponents, playable 2D and 3D boards, plain-language move coaching, and post-game review.

Challenge

A broad library of classic strategy games needed one coherent interface, while engine feedback had to become guidance that learners could understand rather than a stream of opaque scores.

Current outcome

A live strategy-learning platform unifying play, practice, analysis, and visual customisation across a broad board-game library.

Design approach

A system is only powerful when its logic can be felt.

  1. 01

    Use skill-level onboarding to tune the first opponent and make the experience welcoming across different levels of play.

  2. 02

    Translate move quality into plain-language explanations that help people understand what changed and why.

  3. 03

    Connect quick play, daily challenges, openings, puzzles, reviews, and profile progress as one learning journey.

  4. 04

    Support both clear 2D play and expressive 3D presentation, with visual themes that let the game space feel personal.

Inside the system

Three threads that hold it together.

01 · Play

Many games, one clear home

A shared navigation and card system lets different rulesets feel like parts of the same product without erasing their individual character.

02 · Learn

The engine explains itself

Move grading is paired with plain-language reasoning so feedback becomes a lesson a player can use in the next position.

03 · Review

A match becomes a learning record

Post-game review connects accuracy, evaluation, and the move sequence, making improvement visible beyond the final result.