Overview
Pal Kynnect is a cross-platform multiplayer educational game that transforms online learning from flat video calls into an immersive 3D world. Teachers host live classes, students attend as avatars, quizzes happen in real time with spatial interaction, and the entire experience runs on both PC and mobile from the same codebase.
The game was designed to solve a specific problem: online education during and after the pandemic felt isolating and passive. Pal Kynnect makes it social, active, and engaging: students do not just watch a lecture, they inhabit a learning space together.
The Challenge
Cross-platform multiplayer is hard enough in entertainment games; in educational software, the bar is higher because the experience must be reliable, accessible, and low-friction for users who are not gamers. Teachers need to host sessions without technical setup. Students on low-end mobile devices need the same experience as those on gaming PCs. The 3D world needs to feel welcoming, not intimidating.
The Approach
I built the cross-platform layer in Unity with platform-specific optimisation: PC gets higher-fidelity rendering while mobile uses adaptive quality settings to maintain frame rates on lower-end hardware. Both platforms connect to the same multiplayer backend.
The classroom system lets teachers create sessions, invite students via links, and run quizzes in real time. Quiz questions appear spatially in the 3D world; students physically interact with answers rather than clicking buttons on a form.
The social layer was designed to feel natural: students can move freely in the learning space, raise hands, form small groups, and interact with each other between structured activities. The goal was to replicate the serendipitous social interactions of a physical classroom.
Highlights
- Cross-platform multiplayer running on PC and mobile simultaneously
- Live class hosting with real-time quiz interaction
- 3D virtual learning space with spatial interaction patterns
- Adaptive quality settings for low-end mobile devices
- Social learning features: hand-raising, small groups, free movement
The Outcome
Pal Kynnect proved online education doesn't have to be flat. Students get presence video calls can't fake, and cross-platform support means the same class runs on a gaming PC or a budget phone. Nobody excluded by hardware.