Math- Grades 4-5
Thistle Hollow Slice Shop
Run the town pie shop: cut fair slices, serve fractional orders, compare and add, and upgrade the shop between days.
Custom classroom games, K-12
Classroom games made for your class.
Tell us your topic, your standards, and your students. We build a personalized game with your name and school on the title screen, ready in about a week.
Try it: make it yours
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Not sure it will run at your school? Try the free compatibility test on a student device first. It takes about two minutes.
- No ads
- No student accounts
- No student data
- One file, no outside connections
- Canvas and Google Classroom ready
How it works
From request to classroom in about a week
Tell us about your class
Fill out the consultation form: topic, grade, goals, standards, and how you will share the game.
Get a quote
We reply by email with a quote and any questions about your lesson.
Pay securely
Pay through a secure Stripe payment link. We never see your card number.
Play it in class
In about a week you get your game, setup steps for your platform, and your lesson plan or Lesson Kit.
Read the details, including class codes and completion codes
Samples
Play the sample games
Five complete samples for a fictional school district, Thistle Hollow. Each one comes with its full Lesson Kit to download.
Science- Grades 6-8
Food Web Rescue
Restore a nature preserve: place producers, consumers, and decomposers, draw the energy arrows, and predict what each season brings.
ELA- Grades 7-8
Thistle Hollow Case Files
Solve the case of the missing pie trophy by decoding similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, and idioms in clues and witness statements.
Social Studies- Grades 9-12
Checks and Balances
Run a model government: move bills through the House, Senate, President, and courts, and decide vetoes, overrides, and rulings by the Constitution.
Spanish 1- High school
El mercado de Thistle Hollow
Run a stall at the farmers market: talk with customers in Spanish, find the food they ask for, and handle prices and change.
What it is
A real game, built around your lesson
Each game is a single web page that students play by tapping or clicking. You choose the topic. We build the decisions students make around your learning goals and your students' levels, in a real game with pixel-art scenes, sound, and stars.
Your class on the title screen
Your name, your school, and your class topic, so students know it was made for them.
Up to three levels
Support, On Level, and Challenge versions of the same game, so every student can take part.
Class codes and completion codes
One code gives the whole class the same game. At the end, students submit a code you can check.
Built in your school's colors, with your mascot
Tell us your colors and mascot. The game is themed to match, and it checks contrast so every word stays easy to read.
Read aloud and large targets
Optional read aloud on devices that support it, readable type, and big tap targets for every grade band.
Why custom
Your lesson, not someone else's
Generic review games are close to your topic. A custom game matches it: the same words you use in class, the standards you teach, and challenges pitched at your students.
A generic game
- Close to your topic, but not your exact lesson
- Vocabulary and examples chosen by someone else
- One version for every student
- May need student accounts or logins, or show ads
- May load content from outside sites that school filters block
A GBG Education game
- Your exact topic and learning goals
- Your standards and your vocabulary
- Levels matched to your students
- No ads, no accounts, no logins, no student data
- One self-contained file that works in Canvas, Google Classroom (through Google Sites), or your own website
Private by design
Nothing to sign up for. Nothing collected.
Every game is one self-contained file. It makes no outside connections, so there is nothing for a filter to block partway through, and nothing to send anywhere.
- No student accounts or logins. Students open the game and play.
- No student data. No names, no cookies, no analytics, no tracking.
- No outside connections. Fonts, images, and code are all inside the one file.
- Works on student devices. Chromebooks, iPads, Windows laptops, and Macs, with mouse, trackpad, or touch.
- Click and tap only. No timers, no fast reflexes, no keyboard-only controls.
Built by a teacher, for the kids in your room.
Built by a teacher
Who makes these games
Hi, I'm Mike. I'm in my 13th year teaching technology and social studies to middle schoolers, in both a New York City charter school and a suburban public district. I hold master's degrees in adolescent education and instructional media. I build every game the way I'd build one for my own students: starting with the learning goal, planning for the kids who need support and the ones who need a challenge, and making sure it actually works on the devices in your room.
Pricing
Simple, per-game pricing
One price per game, quoted before you pay. No subscriptions and no per-student fees.
Custom Game
$49per game
One personalized game plus a one-page lesson plan. Add the full Lesson Kit for $25.
See what's includedDifferentiated Game
$79per game
Three levels plus the full Lesson Kit, 2 revisions.
Request a gameSchool or Department Pack
$199per pack
Up to 5 games. Invoice or purchase order.
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Founding teacher rate
Our first 10 orders get the Custom Game for $39 instead of $49.
Will it work at my school?
Before you order, play the free two minute compatibility test on a student device, shared the way you plan to share your game. Your game is built the same way, so if the test runs, your game should too. If it ever does not, our guarantee covers it.
Tell us about your next lesson
The consultation form takes about five minutes. We reply with a quote and any questions. No payment until you approve the quote.