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MindForge
Adventure RPG where players navigate social scenarios, manage stress through mini-games, and build emotional intelligence by helping NPCs resolve conflicts. Combines CASEL's 5 core competencies with SHAPE America's National Health Education Standards in a quest-based format. AI-driven NPCs respond to player choices with realistic emotional reactions.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, praises, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
#81C784 MindForge is an adventure RPG that helps you build emotional superpowers! Navigate social situations at school and in your neighborhood, help NPC characters resolve conflicts, manage stress through fun mini-games, and grow your emotional intelligence. It is a safe place to practice handling tricky f
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
MindForge's 5-character CASEL-competency cast maps 1:1 to CASEL's 5 core competencies — self-awareness / self-management / social awareness / relationship skills / responsible decision-making. Cast: Inside / Settle / Open / Touch / Choose. STRONGEST trauma-informed burden in the portfolio (MindForge is the portfolio gold-standard for trauma-informed digital design per SAMHSA TIP 57 + NCTSN explicit references). Cast embodies CAPACITIES TO BUILD, never DEFICITS TO FIX. NO mascotizing of mental-health conditions. Cast NEVER says 'calm down'. Per `mindforge-app/Docs/HANDOFF_FROM_LABSMITH_DISTRIBUTED_NARRATIVE_RETROFIT.md` Wave 32b 2026-05-22. Sage preserved as gold-standard mentor. Lens→Open + Bridge→Touch collision-renames applied. Labsmith generates ~$1.35 cast assets + $1000-1500 CASEL-affiliated + pediatric-mental-health-clinician sensitivity reviewer REQUIRED (not optional). Cross-app cameos: Settle ↔ FocusForge; Inside ↔ TempCheck+CoRegRealm Wave 32b sibling (interoception cluster load-bearing); Open ↔ InclusionForge; Touch ↔ RuptureRepair+CoRegRealm (relational-repair cluster load-bearing); Choose ↔ EthosForge.
Inside
Self-awareness — emotion + thought + body awareness; 'Notice. Don't fix.'
Settle
Self-management — regulation + impulse + stress; 'One breath. Then I choose.'
Open
Social awareness — perspective + empathy + context; 'Their world. Then ours.'
Touch
Relationship skills — communication + boundaries + repair; 'Say it small. Listen big.'
Choose
Responsible decision-making — values + consequences + action; 'What matters? Then I act.'
What's inside
Social Quests
Walk through your school and neighborhood and encounter real-life social situations. A friend is upset, a group is arguing, or someone feels left out. Choose ho
Coping Mini-Games
When your character feels stressed, use coping tools to calm down. Try deep breathing exercises, guided relaxation, or problem-solving activities. These are rea
Emotion Dashboard
Track how your character feels throughout each quest. Learn to name emotions with specific words -- not just "happy" or "sad" but "frustrated," "proud," "anxiou
Relationship Map
See how your choices affect your relationships with NPC characters. Building trust takes time and good decisions. Your relationship map shows who trusts you and
Mentored by Sage — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How MindForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ No ads, no in-app purchases — you pay once
- ✅ COPPA compliant under the 2026 FTC amendments
- ✅ Parental controls + session limits + content filters built in
MindForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
MindForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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