Educational Games That Work
The best games listen to you. Your choices matter. You have agency and the game world responds in satisfying and sometimes unexpected ways. When it's working, no medium rivals the lean-in engagement good games create. Creating that engagement and infusing it with the learning objectives and outcomes we want to achieve for our players (students), and their teachers, is at the heart of our practice.
Making a good game is hard, making one that teaches is harder still, and making one that makes measurable improvements in learning outcomes, while also being easy to implement in any classroom with any teacher is a really tall order. But that’s Electric Funstuff.
News
July 2023
No Turning Back Finalist for GEE! Award
Recognized as one of the best learning games of the past year for use in grades 6+
September 2021
Prisoner in My Homeland Wins 2021 Japan Prize
"In a time when tensions between communities and anti-Asian racism are suddenly vivid, we think programs like Mission US have the potential to help us learn from history and avoid repeating past mistakes, and for us that makes it the best work in the digital media division this year."
June 2023
Spirit of a Nation
in Development
Our next mission digs into archaeology and the history of the Apalachee people as a case study to explore Indigenous experiences in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Florida. We kicked off with a research trip to Mission San Luis in Tallahassee!
May 2019
A Cheyenne Odyssey
Reboot Underway
The story of westward expansion as told from the perspective of the Northern Cheyenne, is getting a full technical and visual overhaul. Look for a late Spring 2020 release!
February 2023
No Turning Back Launched
Our latest mission focuses on grassroots organizing around voting rights in the deep South. This history is not often covered in any grade 6-12 classroom, but one crucially important to understanding the moment we are in now.
October 2018
For Crown or Colony? Reboot Launched
Eight years after the original, our first Mission says goodbye to Flash and hello to Unity, with all new content, characters, badges and interface. Learn more
Selected Work
Selected Clients
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
CUNY The City University of New York
Scholastic
Sesame Workshop
McGraw Hill Education
Contact
If you are part of an established institution and you have a vision for how to improve and enhance learning with educational technology in the United States or abroad … let’s talk.
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