STEM
BackstageQuest
The jobs behind the glass, ages 9–14: spend a week backstage at the museum. Free a fossil without cracking it, protect a rare loan, keep the butterflies alive, light a fragile quilt so it lasts, run the touch cart. Each job has a real tool — and a real way to get it wrong. On-device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Chief
#0f766e Characters who teach
Meet the cast
BackstageQuest's cast are the museum's real workers; Chief the collections manager shows you that every job behind the glass has a real tool, a real rule, and a real way it can go wrong.
Chief
the collections manager — every backstage job has a real constraint and a real failure mode
Scribe
The preparator — frees a fossil from the rock without a single crack (patience + the right power)
Ledger
The registrar — no rare object ships without a condition report and insurance
Fern
The live-collections keeper — the butterfly house lives or dies by humidity and warmth
What's inside
Learning goal
The jobs behind the glass, ages 9–14: spend a week backstage at the museum. Free a fossil without cracking it, protect a rare loan, keep the butterflies alive, light a fragile quilt so it lasts, run the touch cart. Each job has a real tool — and a real way to get it wrong. On-device.
Mentored by Chief — no data leaves the device.
How BackstageQuest handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages