Outreach Games

Augmented for educators.

At Outreach Games, we specialize in creating effective and engaging learning activities through digital games.

Our game-based approach promotes active learning. Students work toward a goal by evaluating and choosing actions, then experience the outcomes of those actions with adaptive guidance in real-time.

We build our games to not only be engaging and instructive for students, but also to provide a time-saving and robust lesson framework for educators.

Our Design Principles

Interactive and Engaging

We design learning experiences where students can explore and evaluate content iteratively and interactively. This allows students to analyze and alter their decisions and interpret how systems and communities change according to their decisions in real-time.

Self-Directed Learning

We engineer game play to engage students in increasingly sophisticated modes of understanding, from knowledge and comprehension all the way to synthesis and evaluation. As students play though this scaffold, they gain a progressively larger influence on the game system and are fostered as self-directed learners.

Easy to Use

Our games help guide students to learn in an easy-to-understand and encouraging way. There is no complex setup or manuals needed to use our programs, just click the online play button, and go!

Lesson Plan Ready

Our games are built to save educators' valuable time. In addition to the game itself, we also develop and supply structured lesson plans, alignment with requested standards, and examples of module integration.

Accessibility

We meticulously optimize our games to be responsive and user friendly, which allows anyone with an internet connection to use them. We also provide standalone applications of our web games for PC, Mac, and Linux, so the programs can be physically installed even on systems without internet.

Customizable

At Outreach Games, we build tools to fit educator needs. This includes collaborative input, live demonstrations in the classroom, and providing data-driven analytics to personalize the learning experience of each student.

Outreach Games In Action

Our digital programs provide effective and easy-to-use tools to deploy in classrooms, museums, and other community organizations. The virtual aspect keeps overhead costs extremely low while also increasing the potential for wide-reaching accessibility, scaling, and usage.

What to see an example?

Check out Ocean Protector, a game that teach students about ocean acidification and ways to prevent it. The federal agency NOAA funded the development of Ocean Protector, which allows anyone to use it for educational purposes!

The decision-driven experience of Ocean Protector helps students construct explanations, reason effectively, and become self-directed learners involving marine science and ocean literacy.