Academics
LobbyQuest
Be the safety designer of a shared game room (ages 9–14): set the rules — how players talk, who can message whom, what the report button does — then run a synthetic crowd and see what your room lets through. Discover why the safest rooms drop open chat. Fully synthetic; on-device; nothing leaves your 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 Usher
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Meet the cast
LobbyQuest's small crew each show one part of keeping a shared space safe. Usher the penguin checks your room and shows what got through, Gable decides who can talk to whom (and can be fooled by someone faking their age), Reeza is the report button, Echo stops someone who keeps doing harm, and Blank is the open text box no rule can fully protect. Their illustrated storybooks are on the way.
Usher
What got through — the penguin who checks your room and reads it out
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Gable
The contact gate — decides who can talk to whom; can be fooled by a faked age (a claim can’t be checked)
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Reeza
The report button — mutes or sends to review what players flag
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Echo
The repeat-catcher — warns then stops someone who keeps doing it
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Blank
The open-typing box — the empty message no rule can fully guard (why safe phrases & emotes win)
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What's inside
Learning goal
Be the safety designer of a shared game room (ages 9–14): set the rules — how players talk, who can message whom, what the report button does — then run a synthetic crowd and see what your room lets through. Discover why the safest rooms drop open chat. Fully synthetic; on-device; nothing leaves your device.
Mentored by Usher — no data leaves the device.
How LobbyQuest 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