Refining interaction feel, then exploring social play

LEGO® Super Mario combined physical building with an interactive LEGO® Mario figure that responded to movement, colour and specially designed LEGO® elements.

Children built their own courses, chose how to move through them, collected coins and rebuilt the experience around their own ideas. Character reactions, sound, animation and scoring gave feedback and encouragement, while building and moving LEGO® Mario by hand stayed at the centre of play.

I worked on LEGO® Super Mario for roughly two years, at two very different stages of its development.

I joined around six months before launch. The core experience and interaction language were already established, and the team was focused on release. My role was to learn the system quickly and help prototype and refine interaction details without disrupting the wider product.

Later, as the platform expanded toward LEGO® Luigi, my work moved upstream. I helped explore how two interactive characters could create a more social form of play, using prototypes and playtesting with children.

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