Start with the interface. Then choose a world.

Use Back and Next at the top of the screen, the dots below, or your arrow keys. We begin with the interface and type system every direction shares, then walk through the six visual worlds.

What the student actually touches

The interface is designed as part of the world, not laid on top of it. Below are working components (the decision prompt, the achievement chip, the progress rail and the evidence panel) shown over a finished scene.

Every control has five states

A student should never have to guess whether a control is available, already pressed, or waiting on them. Hover, focus, pressed and disabled are all designed, and every drag interaction has a select-and-move alternative for keyboard and touch.

The voice of the product

Three roles. A display face that carries personality and shouts when it needs to, a handwritten face for the student's inner voice and marginal notes, and a highly legible UI face for everything that must never be misread.

Evidence becomes an argument

In Journey 3 the learner sits in a real committee hearing, keeps the statements that matter, and attaches them to a clause of the bill. The reasoning they write becomes visible in the bill's margin, and a representative challenges it on the floor later.

From scattered notes to a plan you can defend

In Journey 5 the learner gathers evidence, groups it on a case board, and builds a live action plan. Eight substantive notes and two groups are required, and filler can't complete it. In Journey 4 the same workspace becomes five launch workstations with real dependencies.

The same decision, six worlds

This is the identical moment in the game (one amendment, three choices) dressed in each of the six directions. This is the clearest way to feel the difference, because the interface is where a student actually spends their time.

Dialogue and status, three ways

The dialogue box and the status bar carry most of the screen time, so their personality matters more than any single illustration. Painted for warmth, comic for energy, glass for a modern register.

The journey menu, three ways

The first screen a student ever sees, shown in three directions. All three carry the same three journeys, the same mission counts and the same player-name field, so the only difference is the visual language.

The chrome every screen shares

These are the pieces a student sees constantly: the journey bar, the dialogue box, the notebook, the objective list and the reward confirmation. They are designed once and used everywhere, so the whole game feels like one product rather than thirteen separate activities.

Screens a student moves through

Beyond the in-scene chrome there is a small set of full screens: the entry point, the place a student chooses where to go, how progress reads back to them, and what happens while something loads.

A shared symbol set

One icon family used across every journey, and a character expression range that lets dialogue be performed rather than described. Icons carry no text, so they have to read at a glance on a school Chromebook.

Built for a school Chromebook first

This is a classroom product, so the smallest screen is the one that matters most. Every layout works on a laptop or Chromebook, scales up to a classroom display, and adapts to tablets and phones without losing the work area.

Recognition the student can keep

Badges are earned for genuine work: a connection made, a plan defended, a bill carried. They re-skin to whichever world we choose, and locked badges show what's still ahead so the path stays visible.

Every real action gets a sound

Short, restrained effects that confirm what actually changed: a document edited, a promise made, a point earned. They are never the only feedback: the visual receipt always lands too, and the whole game is completable in silence.

Pick a sound for a fifteen-year-old

We don't yet know which world you'll choose, so here is the music question on its own. Four genre families, two directions each. Play them and tell us what feels like the game you want to build. All of these can sit under dialogue without fighting it.

Or a bed for each journey

If you'd rather the three journeys each had their own score than sit under one genre, this is that version: one warm main theme and a distinct underscore per journey, so the stories feel like three different rooms in the same building.

One world, drawn by one hand

The clearest improvement available to us is consistency. When characters and environments are created in the same visual language, students stop seeing a product and start believing a place. Each direction below commits fully, and each one commits differently.

Hand-Inked Painted Print

Painted brushwork with paper grain, soft ink contours rather than heavy outlines, halftone shading, and a warm terracotta, cream, navy and turquoise palette. Characters and environments drawn by the same hand.

Clean Modern 3D Render

Photoreal architectural rendering, warm sunlight, timber ceilings, sunlit civic space and a diverse contemporary cast. Aspirational and immediately legible to any audience.

Stylized 3D Character

Animation-grade 3D characters, appealing and clean in silhouette, set against cinematic rendered environments. The most future-proof of the six.

Capitol Zine

Screenprinted comic. Bold ink, ben-day halftone, a five-colour spot palette and deliberate misregistration. It looks like something students made themselves, which is entirely the point.

Graphic Novel

Painted prestige comic. Chiaroscuro lighting, a limited palette per scene (warm amber in the hearing room, cold blue at the vote) and visible brushwork throughout.

Modern Flat

Clean geometric vector. Flat fills, no gradients, high-contrast complements. The most animatable of the six and the easiest to keep perfectly consistent across every journey.

Motion brings the world to life

Six directed shots rather than generic loops. Each one is built with a specific camera move, lens and lighting intention: crane descents, portrait push-ins, over-the-shoulder testimony and a spotlighted tally board. Six seconds each, playing automatically so you can see the movement.

The same brief, six ways

A character and an environment rendered in each direction, so the difference is easy to judge at a glance.

Where we'd take it

Everything you can choose

No rush, and no wrong answers. This is just the list of decisions this board is asking you to make. You can pick a direction, a sound and a device priority independently of each other.

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