Academics
YardForge
Design a playground for a younger child, ages 9–14: put swings, a sandpit, a climbing frame and a bench on an empty plot, and five friends show what a real designer checks — fall zones, sight lines, room for a wheelchair to turn, a quiet corner, shade at noon. No score. Save it as a file. On-device.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
#0f766e Characters who teach
Meet the cast
YardForge has a crew of designers who each see one thing a playground for small children needs: Gatewright the mentor asks who it is for; Clearwell keeps fall zones apart; Sightly checks the view from the bench; Turnabout makes sure a wheelchair can reach and turn; Hushwood keeps a quiet corner; Shadewell finds the noon shade; and Rungwise, Loosey, Wayline, Mudge and Chalkby (graded risk, loose parts, paths, soft ground, open ground) join them in the stories to come. They notice; you decide.
Gatewright
Designing for someone - Gatewright, the mentor, who asks one question before every piece goes down: who is this yard for, a child of four or of seven?
Clearwell
Fall zones - Clearwell, who walks the circle round every swing, frame and seesaw and keeps two circles from touching
Sightly
Sight lines - Sightly, who sits on the grown-up's bench and says which piece she cannot see
Turnabout
The turning circle - Turnabout, who turns a full circle (a 1.5-metre square) beside every piece and stops where a wheelchair cannot
Hushwood
The quiet corner - Hushwood, who keeps one corner well away from the swing for a child who needs quiet
Shadewell
Shade at noon - Shadewell, who stands where the noon shadow falls, and nowhere else
Rungwise
Graded risk - Rungwise, who lays rungs from easy to hard and lets each child pick a height
Loosey
Loose parts - Loosey, who leaves a pile of things to move, because a pile beats a finished thing
Wayline
Circulation - Wayline, who walks from piece to piece and marks where a path crosses a swing
Mudge
Soft ground - Mudge, who pours soft ground under anything a child can fall from
Chalkby
Open ground - Chalkby, who guards a patch with nothing on it, for games no one has invented yet
What's inside
Learning goal
Design a playground for a younger child, ages 9–14: put swings, a sandpit, a climbing frame and a bench on an empty plot, and five friends show what a real designer checks — fall zones, sight lines, room for a wheelchair to turn, a quiet corner, shade at noon. No score. Save it as a file. On-device.
Mentored by Gatewright — no data leaves the device.
How YardForge 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