LabBox

14/07/2026

🏆 We are incredibly honored to announce that Reactor Rescue has won the 2026 GEE! Learning Game Award in the Analog Games category! 🎉

The GEE! Learning Game Awards recognize excellence in educational game design and celebrate games that create meaningful, engaging learning experiences. Inspired by the work of renowned learning scientist Dr. James Paul Gee, the awards are judged by an international panel of experts in game-based learning and education.

"The setup and gameplay are relatively simple, which is a strength given that both the complexity and the real draw of the experience reside in the circuits themselves. Where the subtlety of the design really appears is in the way the game slowly deepens the player’s knowledge in a process that is one of the best examples of cycles of expertise that we have seen in the analog category."

Read the full review here: https://www.geeawards.com/blog/analog2026

Reactor Rescue was created with one ambitious goal: to make learning electronics as exciting as playing your favorite board game. By combining hands-on circuit building with competitive gameplay, we wanted to inspire curiosity, creativity, problem-solving, and a love for STEM.

Winning this award is an incredible milestone for our entire team and a validation of the vision we've believed in from day one, that learning should be playful, immersive, and unforgettable.

A huge thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout this journey: our amazing team, Hape, educators, families, Kickstarter backers, playtesters, judges, and everyone who believed in Reactor Rescue before it even existed.

We're look forward to bring Reactor Rescue to classrooms, homes, and game tables around the world.

If you like to have a copy of the game, preorders are open here: https://reactor-rescue.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Thank you! ❤️

10/07/2026

🏆 We did it! What an honor!

We’re incredibly proud to share that Reactor Rescue has won the 2026 GEE! Award for Best Analog Learning Game! 🎉

The GEE! Awards recognize excellence in educational game design and are judged by international experts in game-based learning.

Read more about the award recognistion here:
https://www.geeawards.com/blog/analog2026

This award means so much to us because Reactor Rescue represents everything we believe learning should be: hands-on, playful, and deeply engaging.

Judging the analog category alongside other digital educational games attunes you to the specificity of what physical games can bring to the table. Analog games have a number of general strengths: they don’t become unusable because of an OS update, they bring people face to face with one another, ...

03/06/2026

BIG news from the Lab!
Reactor Rescue is officially a FINALIST for the 2026 GEE! Learning Game Awards!
https://www.geeawards.com/

The GEE! Awards - named for Dr. James Paul Gee, widely considered the founding scholar of games-for-learning - are judged by international experts against a serious standard: does the game empower learners, create problems worth solving, and build deep understanding?

An independent panel looked at Reactor Rescue and said YES! And we are sooo incredibly proud of this! This validation belongs to everyone who got us here: the backers who funded us, the families who playtested, and the team behind it. Thank you all.

Two ways to be part of what's next:
🗳️ People's Choice voting is open to everyone (one vote per person): https://uwmadison.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3Cpi9pwo8fjz5dQ

📦 Pre-orders are open: https://reactor-rescue.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

Winners will be announced on July 9th at the Play Make Learn conference.

Congratulations to our fellow finalists, it's an honor to be in your company!

19/05/2026

It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!

Our Kickstarter campaign ends in 45 hours and we are so incredibly grateful to the almost 2,000 backers who joined our mission!

This is your last chance to be the first to get Reactor Rescue — the board game that turns you into space engineers fixing a failing spacecraft by building real circuits.

Join the mission, and experience what it is to be a true engineer!

Race to repair your spacecraft by building real electronic circuits.Collect resources, outsmart opponents, and save the city of Electra

07/05/2026

Get yours on Kickstarter now!

Link in Bio

05/05/2026

We just got our first hands-on preview from GamingTrend, and we couldn't be happier with what Dan Hinkin had to say.

"I definitely enjoyed my time with the game and think it is a fantastic introduction to basic electronics. The Labbox components are top-notch!"

He also shared something that made our day: his nephews were "intent on learning how the circuits worked more than completing the game most efficiently."

That's exactly what we designed Reactor Rescue to do, make real engineering so fun that learning just happens.

The full preview is live now. Give it a read and let us know what you think.
https://gamingtrend.com/previews/dont-get-your-wires-crossed-in-reactor-rescue/

Our Kickstarter campaign is live until May 21st: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reactor-rescue/reactor-rescue-the-board-game-where-you-build-real-circuits

We get a hands-on preview of the educational electronics game.

05/05/2026

Reactor Rescue is a competitive, engine-building strategy board game for 1–4 players, ages 10+, with a unique game mechanic: you build real electronic circuits to win!

Players step into the role of space engineers racing to save the city of Electra. Your spacecraft has malfunctioned mid-mission, and you must repair it by wiring real electronic components — motors, lights, sensors, switches, and dimmers — to fix the broken systems of your spacecraft. The first engineer to fully repair their spacecraft claims the single Reactor Token and wins the game!

Every decision matters, every build is real, and every game unfolds differently!

Link in Bio

30/04/2026

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29/04/2026

We just got the sweetest shoutout from in their weekly board game recap:
"Reactor Rescue will get all the board-game-avoiding engineers in your life invested"

This is literally why we wake up in the morning!
That's the magic moment. And apparently it's not just us who sees it.

1900%+ funded on Kickstarter. Still time to grab yours: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/reactor-rescue/reactor-rescue-the-board-game-where-you-build-real-circuits

26/04/2026

1,000 backers.
Five days ago, Reactor Rescue went live on Kickstarter.
Today, 1,000 people from around the world have backed a board game where you build real, working electronic circuits.

Parents who want their kids to learn engineering through play. Teachers looking for hands-on STEM tools. Engineers who grew up loving circuits and want to share that with the next generation. Board game families who just want a great game night.

1,000 people who believe that learning and fun don't have to be separate things.

Two stretch goals unlocked. Featured by Hackster.io and GeekDad. 24 days still to go.
Thank you to every single backer.