STEM
PipQuest
Narrative-Driven Backgammon + Dice-Strategy for Tweens — voyage IS the curriculum (Fruitlandia → Sunrise Cliffs → Storm Bay → Icelandia). Peg dice-cup mascot + Peglegra / Chompus NPCs.
▶ 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. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
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Meet the cast
Peglegra the Bold
The brave forward-run — commit the piece and trust the dice
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Tandem the Careful
The blot / safety in pairs; a lone piece is exposed, paired pieces are safe
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Bulwark the Steady
Making points / building a prime; a wall of your own points blocks the opponent
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Rebound the Bright
Re-entering from the bar; when hit and sent home, find the open door and come back
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Holdfast the Patient
The anchor / back game; hold a safe base deep in enemy waters when behind
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Dashell the Swift
The running game; when ahead, flee for home and avoid contact
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Chompus the Great
The multi-hit chain — one hit is luck, three is a chain that sends opponents home
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Pipp the Sharp
Pip counting; count how far each side must travel to know who's really ahead
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Windward the Wise
The doubling cube — raise the big sail when the tide's truly with you, bow out gracefully when it's not
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Tuckett the Tidy
Bearing off; the endgame of taking pieces off smoothly, wasting nothing, leaving no gaps
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What's inside
Learning goal
Narrative-Driven Backgammon + Dice-Strategy for Tweens — voyage IS the curriculum (Fruitlandia → Sunrise Cliffs → Storm Bay → Icelandia). Peg dice-cup mascot + Peglegra / Chompus NPCs.
Question kits
16 curriculum-aligned question kits, 400 questions in all, mapped to recognized standards.
On-device AI mentor
FoundationModels-powered hints, feedback, and adaptive difficulty — all running locally.
Mentored by Peg — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How PipQuest 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
PipQuest 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
PipQuest 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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