Turn Course Material Into Games Students Can Learn From.
Upload your slides, readings, or syllabus. Generate board and card games where students apply concepts, face scenarios, explain decisions, and learn by playing.
Course Material in.
Games out.
Serious Play Studio starts with the learning outcome, then builds a playable board or card game around it. If students need to understand power dynamics, the game creates competing interests. If they need to practice ethics, the game creates a dilemma. If they need to apply a framework, the game makes them use it to make decisions.
The Development Cycle
Feed the Beast
Course Material
Slides, readings, case studies...
Syllabus (optional)
Add it and we check every stated goal against your material.
Fill the Gaps
A short chat asks only what your documents couldn’t: who your students are, how a win is recognised, how the game gets played.
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Council Room
Chain Reaction
Mechanical Mastery
Explore the building blocks of our games.
Jeopardy
Teams take turns picking questions from a category board. Right answers keep control, wrong ones pass it on.
BEST FOR
Whole-class review of facts, concepts, and definitions.
HOW IT PLAYS
Five categories of five questions on one projected board, with the facilitator running the class as teams.
Snakes & Ladders
One or two students answer multiple-choice cards and move along a randomized track.
BEST FOR
Solo or head-to-head practice on vocabulary, dates, and classifications.
HOW IT PLAYS
Two to three categories of six questions; correct answers move you forward, snakes and ladders do the rest.
Board Game
Teams take on a role from the subject's own world and compete across a board that simulates it.
BEST FOR
Applying and defending concepts in decision-heavy subjects.
HOW IT PLAYS
Tiles trigger themed events with money consequences; decision cards must be justified with course concepts. Richest team wins.
For courses that need more than slides.
Every game is generated from your course content and syllabus. Whether you’re in a 20-person seminar or a 500-person lecture hall, our games scale to the stakes.
What Game Is Hiding Inside Your Course?
Our ‘Serious Play Engine’ is ready to scan your syllabus and course material. Find out if you’re teaching a Strategy game, a Social Dilemma, or a Resource Management sim in 60 seconds.
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