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CentralForge
You are the central bank. Set one lever — the policy rate — and steer inflation and jobs, but everything you do arrives with a lag. Hike to cool prices and inflation barely moves for a year; hold too long and you over-tighten into a recession; face a supply shock and there is no clean move at all. Predict the economy, then run it yourself. All exact, all on your device. Ages 15–18.
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Meet the cast
CentralForge is text-forward (R-OLDER-TEEN-DN-ADAPTED, ages 15–18) — no illustrated cast; the 'characters' are the pieces of a macro model. You set one lever, the policy rate. Above the neutral rate it cools the economy: spending slows, unemployment rises, and — a year or two later — inflation eases. That delay is the transmission lag, and it is why the job is hard: a hike barely moves inflation at first, so waiting for it to visibly fall over-tightens into a recession. A supply shock raises inflation and unemployment at once (stagflation), leaving the one lever to trade one problem for the other. Every value is exact arithmetic computed on-device. Illustrated portraits/chapters/audio are N/A for the older-teen band, not a follow-on.
The policy rate
Your one lever — above the neutral rate it cools the economy and raises unemployment, below it heats the economy
The lag
The delay before a rate change reaches inflation; unemployment moves this year, inflation only responds a year or two later
The Phillips curve
Slack — unemployment above its natural rate — pulls inflation down; a tight labour market pushes it up
The supply shock
Raises inflation and unemployment together (stagflation), so the rate can only trade one problem for the other
The Taylor rule
A rule of thumb: lean the rate above neutral in proportion to how far inflation runs above target
What's inside
Learning goal
You are the central bank. Set one lever — the policy rate — and steer inflation and jobs, but everything you do arrives with a lag. Hike to cool prices and inflation barely moves for a year; hold too long and you over-tighten into a recession; face a supply shock and there is no clean move at all. Predict the economy, then run it yourself. All exact, all on your device. Ages 15–18.
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.
How CentralForge 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
CentralForge 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
CentralForge 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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