As part of the experiment we created a lab technician character, tested out baked lighting with ambient occlusion for the lab and incorporated pathfinding with some simple AI decision making for what each technician would do.

Part of the idea was inspired by 'Little Computer People' a Commodore 64 game from many moons ago where you could happily sit and watch as a family of 8-bit sprites go about their daily life for hours and marvel at all the things they got up to.