The Experience — Dr. Dirt's Lab

For Kids

The Challenge

The Backyard Connection: Connect your actual garden directly to your digital game! Have an adult use the Pocket Lab reagents, then use your camera phone to capture the nutrient levels from your real-life trees and plants.
Track the Virtual Twin: Once inputted into the computer, the game follows that real plant. It forces you to watch your plant type, growth stage, and region while tracking changing weather, seasonal shifts, and entered data.
Be the Plant Doctor: As the plant struggles against the elements, you must save it! Mix color-coded nutrient recipes or flush the soil and wait for it to recover.
Hunt the Hidden Secrets: Ready to play? Hidden “secret entrances” scattered everywhere are the only unpaid way into the game.
Earn Real Rewards: Keep your garden alive to earn game coins. You can exchange your coins to unlock a full monthly scan purchase!

The Real-World Balance

Real-World Connection: Finally, a video game that connects your garden to your game! It gets kids interacting directly with real-life trees and plants.
Empirical Data Gathering: Adults use the safe Pocket Lab reagents, and kids use a camera phone to capture the nutrient levels. This info inputs directly into the computer so the game follows that real plant.
Dynamic Environmental Tracking: The game calculates weather, plant type, plant stage, region, entered data, and season as the plant grows, turning outdoor environment changes into real gameplay variables.
Color-Coded Learning: When the digital plant struggles, kids learn to give it nutrients, flush the soil, and wait. The recipes are color-coded for intuitive, easy play.
Zero Paywall Hassles: Forget constant microtransactions. The game features hidden “secret entrances” everywhere as the only unpaid way to get in.
Earned Upgrades: Active gameplay rewards kids with coins, which can be exchanged for their monthly scan purchase.

The Interactive STEM Lab

Garden to Game Integration: Connect your garden to your game to teach basic nutrient applications and active data gathering.
Field Science Integration: Under adult supervision, use the Pocket Lab reagents and a camera phone to capture real plant nutrient levels, sending data to the computer so the game follows that real plant.
Multi-Variable Simulation: The game engine tracks weather, plant type, plant stage, region, entered data, and season as the plant grows.
Actionable Critical Thinking: When the plant struggles, students must evaluate variables to give it precise nutrients, flush the soil, and wait. Color-coded recipes ensure easy play.
Curiosity-Driven Access: The game enforces critical thinking before entry even begins; hidden “secret entrances” everywhere are the only unpaid way in.
Data-Booth Extensions: Students can run real tests at the soil diagnostics booth with live microscopy and diagnostics, inputting those metrics right into the computer.

The Property Map & Tracker

Graph and Monitor Your Plants: Use the Pocket Lab reagents and your camera phone to capture real-life nutrient levels and input the info so the game follows that real plant.
Build Your Homestead: Beyond data tracking, the game includes houses and other landscape options to completely build out your property.
Predictive Diagnostics: The software constantly tracks weather and plant health, considering weather, plant type, plant stage, region, entered data, and season as the plant grows.
Perfected Applications: When your tracked plant struggles, know exactly when to give it nutrients, flush the soil, and wait using easy, color-coded recipes.
Self-Sustaining Access: Use your precision gardening data to earn in-game coins, which can then be exchanged to cover your monthly scan purchase.

The Organic Growth Philosophy

Organic Evolution: Grow with Dr. Dirt is about not just growing plants organically, but growing the game organically as well—advancing naturally through community interaction.
Personalized Character Design: Stand out in the world with paid requests for fully customized, personalized characters.
Co-Author the Code: Pitch your own features using the free community suggestions spot, where new updates are constantly being added to the game.
The Contribution Loop: Every community member gets 1 free development submission a month, and you can purchase extra submissions using your earned game coins.
Community-Led Discovery: The game map relies on crowd exploration; finding hidden “secret entrances” everywhere is the only unpaid way into the game.