Run the eDNA pipeline as fast as the lab can throw it at you — eighteen lab-instrument micro-games, three lives before contamination. A BioKEA game.
Status: private beta. Public release pending.
Each micro-game maps to a real piece of bench kit — KingFisher extractions, QIAgility plating, thermal cyclers, Promethion sequencing, Qubit fluorometry, gel imaging, glove-box work — strung together the way an environmental-DNA pipeline actually runs. Surviving sample-collection sites award species discoveries (a field pokedex of real taxa), and bosses chain three instruments back-to-back without contamination. Pipette Rush is part of BioKEA's push to make modern wet-lab and bioinformatics workflows feel intuitive to anyone who has never set foot in a 5,000-square-foot Berkeley lab.
- Campaign — pick a sample site, clear waves of randomized instrument micro-games, three misses contaminates the run.
- Boss waves — periodic three-stage chains worth triple score; one fail ends the boss but not the run.
- Auctions — between waves, spend credits on upgrades (extra lives, score multiplier, slower waves, second flow cell, combo boost).
- Daily — one seeded run per day, fixed Grad difficulty, scored against a generated opponent ladder.
- Practice — drill any unlocked instrument at a forgiving fixed duration.
- Difficulty tiers — pick a tier on the intro screen; tiers scale wave speed, starting lives, auction frequency, and score multiplier.
- Pokedex + achievements — track species, stage wins, sites visited, boss runs, daily podiums.
- Mouse / touch — every micro-game is click or tap; specific instruments use drag, multi-tap, or timing-based clicks.
- Mute — speaker toggle in the top-right corner of the intro and HUD.
- Difficulty / mode buttons — on the intro screen.
(No keyboard shortcuts; everything routes through on-screen UI.)
- React 18 + TypeScript + Vite 6
- Tailwind CSS + shadcn / Radix primitives for UI
@tanstack/react-query,react-hook-form,zod,recharts,sonner- Supabase JS client (optional — used only if env vars are set)
- Bun as package manager
bun install
bun run dev # http://localhost:5173
bun run build # production build into dist/Optional Supabase backend (the app silently no-ops without these):
cp .env.example .env # then fill in:
# VITE_SUPABASE_URL=...
# VITE_SUPABASE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=...The app reads these via import.meta.env; no keys are committed.
MIT — see LICENSE.
Made by BioKEA.