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WorldForge
A maze-and-course builder for ages 9–14: tap to lay walls and floor, send Beam the woodpecker to fly your maze (he finds the path, or tells you there isn’t one), then publish a solvable course as a code a friend can play. Flat or 3-D. 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 Beam
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Meet the cast
WorldForge's small crew each stand for one part of building a game world. Mortar the beaver lays the walls and floor, Latch the raccoon carries the key that opens its matching door, Guff the mole is the button that opens a door when pressed, Beam the woodpecker hops through your place to check there's a real path to the flag, and Holt the hermit crab packs the world into a code you can keep and share. Each has an illustrated storybook to read.
Beam
the woodpecker who hops through your finished place and finds the path — or shows where he got stuck
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Mortar
The builder — a world starts empty; lay walls and floor to shape the maze
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Latch
The key and its lock — a locked gate opens only for its matching key, so you fetch the key first
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Guff
The switch and gate — press the button and the matching gate opens; the world reacts to what you do
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Holt
The cartridge — pack your finished world into a course code you keep and share; a world is a file, never a server
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What's inside
Learning goal
A maze-and-course builder for ages 9–14: tap to lay walls and floor, send Beam the woodpecker to fly your maze (he finds the path, or tells you there isn’t one), then publish a solvable course as a code a friend can play. Flat or 3-D. On-device; nothing leaves your device.
Mentored by Beam — no data leaves the device.
How WorldForge 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