Educational Games, Simulations and Platforms

I design and build educational tools, including: games; simulations; platforms; and tutors.

by combining instructional design, UX design, game design, and full-stack development.

Case Studies

Turning a 100-Question Career Questionnaire into an Interactive Learning Experience

Designing a Mobile Learning Game to Teach Financial Literacy to Children (Ages 9–11)

Building a Large-Scale Learning Platform with Skill Trees, AI Tutoring, and Multi-Role Access

When you have an idea that you want to create and try out.

A playable educational game, simulation or platform .

When you need an educational game, simulation or other tool built from concept to delivery

A complete educational tool designed around clear learning outcomes.

When you want a mobile or web application containing multiple learning experiences.

Web or mobile application that can host educational content

Simone Collins

Managing Director, The Pragmatist Foundation

Jonathan Dyason is an absolutely brilliant person to work with on all fronts. In addition to producing great work, he is an excellent communicator and he clearly and regularly communicates to his partners what he is working on, what he is planning to work on next, where he is stuck, where he needs clarification, and where he needs assistance. He regularly goes above and beyond, finding solutions to problems before they've even occurred to us. I only hope to find more opportunities to work with him—and in more extensive ways—going forward.
Malcolm Collins

Executive Director, The Collins Institute

Jonathan is one of the few people I trust with the projects that matter most to me. He has been the pivotal person developing my top passion project in life, an educational platform designed to be a viable alternative to the legacy schooling system (and the platform I plan to use for my own children's education, something that is of crucial importance to me and their futures). He is smart, resourceful, tactful, proactive, and also very careful with expenses and time spent (he won't waste your time or money). Couldn't imagine a better partner on important projects.

VR Physics Game
- Client: Coder Fairy
- Purpose: To teach physics to school kids.
- Tech stack: Unity
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AI tutor, Simulation
Multiplayer Strategic Thinking Game

Client: Conscious Coding

Purpose: A single and multiplayer web game to teach strategic thinking.

Tech stack: Node, Express, Vue, MariaDB, AWS, Unity WebGL, Photon Unity Networking (PUN)

Link below shows an example single player level.
single player example game
Game, Learning Platform
AI Physics Tutor

Client: Coder Fairy

Purpose: To teach physics.

Tech stack: Unity

link
AI tutor
Foreign Language Learning Suite of Games for Kids
map editor
Game, Learning Platform

Projects where I contributed to learning design, UX, or development as part of a larger team.

Before specializing in learning games, simulations and platforms, I:

Studied and self-studied psychology, animation, illustration, creative writing and music
Taught IT certificates and computer science
Worked as an IT technician in schools and a college
Worked as a junior web developer
Spent 3 years building university-level courses
Early freelance jobs included designing and building a multi-course hiking leadership program in Moodle (2.5-year engagement) and elearning development
Worked as a general developer and designer in edtech