GAME AUDITS & REVIEWS:

We have the knowledge, network, and integrity to perform comprehensive audits and reviews of games—tabletop, app-based, web-based, console-based, or extended reality (XR)—designed for teen audiences with an eye toward what best protects and promotes their mental health.

We evaluate your game against the science of how adolescents grow, benchmarking it against teens' developmental strengths and vulnerabilities to devise and share actionable recommendations that elevate the player experience to a wellness-supporting one. Our expert-led game audit and review process:

• uncovers opportunities to skillfully fold social and emotional skill-building into the play experience, a practice proven to support teen mental health 
• outlines innovative ways to foster and promote wellness practices and prosocial behaviors in cooperative and engaging play experiences
• empowers studios with a defined plan to elevate gameplay in developmentally supportive ways for teens 
• skillfully engages teens in the envisioning of creative and playful solutions 
• produces an audit report, a set of recommendations, and a product backlog to springboard your team's building and prioritizing of new features

IMPACT-DRIVEN UX RESEARCH:

The most impactful experiences for teens respond to their social and emotional needs. We bring our co-design model with teens, an innovative UX research method, to help you and your team expand games and envision new ones with young people that transform them in wellness-supporting ways.

Led by our teen mental health and experience design experts, our co-design model brings innovative creative and cognitive tools to teens and skillfully engages them in the planning and building of your game.

Our UX research method fosters a collaborative workspace where your team and teen co-designers learn, explore, and share with each other, helping you:

• refine or expand your game's learning objectives to reflect and respond to teens' identified social and emotional needs
• uncover new challenges that can be addressed with impactful play experiences
• test and challenge assumptions with young people in immediately actionable ways
• discover new ways to expand the gameplay experience to make it more socially and emotionally supportive for teen audiences

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

We offer customized professional development programs that expand game studios' capacity to design supportive experiences for teen audiences. Whether you are looking for in-service training or an ongoing professional learning series, we have the mental health and instructional design expertise to deliver high-quality and hands-on solutions that empower your team with actionable knowledge and skills to create impactful games for young people.