Field notes
Short notes from the studio on how we make games for kids: what worked, what did not, and why.
4 minute read
Teaching soccer restarts with a coach who waits
Throw-ins, goal kicks and corners confuse almost every new player. Here is how Learn mode in Soccer Kids teaches them, and what we got wrong the first time.
4 minute read
What goes into a game built for one kid
Ziggy Games is full of details only his family would notice. Here is how we find those details, and how we keep them safe.
3 minute read
Why our games run in a browser
No app store, nothing to install, and the iPad you already have. Here is why every Paper Kid game is a web page.
Draft your player
It takes about two minutes. Design your kid as a paper kid, pick their sport and what the game should teach, and see the game plan we would build for them.