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TerraVoyage
Kids ages 10-14 traverse a stylized world map, identify locations through environmental and cultural clues, solve geography puzzles, and build a "World Journal" of discoveries. Players explore SpriteKit tile-map regions, interact with culturally-accurate NPCs powered by FoundationModels, and deduce region identities from architecture, flora, language, and climate clues.
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#FFA726 TerraVoyage is a geography and world cultures exploration adventure for ages 10-14 where players traverse a stylized world map, identify locations through environmental and cultural clues, solve geography puzzles, and build a World Journal of discoveries — turning the whole planet into a game world.
Distributed-narrative cast
Meet the cast
TerraVoyage's distributed-narrative cast embodies the 5 primitives of curious-respectful-traveler thinking — open exploration, journey/migration, cultural-heritage listening, non-extractive cultural exchange, and planetary-scale interconnection — as 5 animal-traveler characters Compass introduces across the 16 question kits. Cultural-representation gate is foregrounded; Origin's 'before you visit, learn whose home this is; before you name, learn what it's already called' is load-bearing; NO colonial-explorer iconography, NO specific-culture mascotization, NO 'discovered by' framing.
Roam
Open exploration + curiosity — the otter-tween with pocket-tunic full of found things who teaches that curiosity-without-destination is a valid mode ('curious feet learn more than busy feet')
Trek
Movement + migration — the red-deer-tween in polysemic wool wrap with pack-and-walking-stick who dignifies all journey-reasons equally — seasons / scarcity / opportunity / safety / curiosity ('some journeys are choice; some are not; every traveler deserves welcome')
Origin
Cultural-heritage anchor — the heron-elder with bundle of family-trees and oral-history-cards who teaches that 'discovery' is a colonial word and every place has been home for someone, often for millennia ('before you visit, learn whose home this is; before you name, learn what it's already called')
Braid
Cultural exchange — the weaverbird-tween with small loom-pouch whose threads-from-many-places stay distinct AND together; teaches anti-appropriation, exchange-not-extraction ('threads from many places — each keeps its color; together they make something new — together, not apart')
Reach
Planetary scale + interconnection — the albatross-elder with continent-patterned wings who teaches Earth-as-one-system, climate-justice, environmental-equity framing ('far is closer than you think; everywhere is somewhere's neighbor')
What's inside
Learning goal
Kids ages 10-14 traverse a stylized world map, identify locations through environmental and cultural clues, solve geography puzzles, and build a "World Journal" of discoveries. Players explore SpriteKit tile-map regions, interact with culturally-accurate NPCs powered by FoundationModels, and deduce region identities from architecture, flora, language, and climate clues.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned kits × 25 questions = 400 questions per app, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Compass — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How TerraVoyage 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
TerraVoyage 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
TerraVoyage 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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