Doug Rowlands

Family games

A whole village to play in

A hand-painted village where every building is a game. Walk about, step through a door, and play your way to coins, a house to decorate and a vegetable patch of your own.

The painted village from above: cottages along a lane, a river with two wooden bridges, a cobbled square with a fountain, and woods all round.๐ŸŒณ Hand-painted, every bit of it

What it's all about

Learning that feels like playing

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The real school work

Times tables, spellings, phonics, money and this term's topics, woven into games rather than worksheets.

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Fair, short questions

Everything can be read aloud, there's no clock ticking, and a slow reader is never penalised. The challenge lives in the world, not the questions.

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A world that grows

Right answers earn coins. Coins buy furniture, house upgrades and more. Come back tomorrow and there's something new to do.

How you play

Four steps in

  1. Pick who's playing

    Family members each have a character and a PIN, so progress is theirs alone. Visitors can play as a guest; guests don't save anything.

  2. Arrive in the village

    Tap the ground to walk, tap twice to run, and drag to look ahead. Signposts whisk you across the map.

    Tap: walkDouble tap: runDrag: lookPinch: zoom
  3. Step through a door

    Every building opens a game. When you're done, you come back out exactly where you went in.

  4. Earn, spend and grow

    Coins for right answers. Spend them on your house, plant seeds at the farm, sell what you grow, and tick off the day's jobs.

Around the village

Places to visit

Short rounds of five questions with a friendly villager, a coin for each first-time right answer.

The Square

The Cafรฉ

Times tables over a cup of cocoa, or counting cakes in groups.

The Square

The Library

This week's spellings, and reading words that match a picture.

The Square

The School

Questions on what's being learned this term.

The Square

The Shop

Prices, totals and change; counting coins for younger players.

The Farm

The Garden and Farm

Your own vegetable patch that grows in real time. Collect eggs, wool and milk, and sell it all at the farm stall.

Home Lane

The houses

Everyone has a house to decorate with the coins they earn, and can pop round to look at the others'.

Meet the neighbours

Villagers out and about

They wander between the shops, stop for a chat, and wave when you walk up. Tap one to say hello.

The baker
Mr Bramble
Jo
The postie
The farmer

The games inside

Every door, a game

The Haunted House

Haunted Hangman & Spooky Scrabble

Word games in a spooky house. Hangman meets pin the tail on the bat.

Home Lane

Dream House

Pop the right balloon to win things for a doll's house you decorate yourself.

The Dragon Cave

Dragon Egg Hatchery

Times tables that hatch dragons: over a hundred to collect.

The Giant Tree

Monkey & Twig's Big Tree

Climb four trees with reading and maths, and build a treehouse on the way up.

The Safari Gate

Sound Safari

Phonics for new readers: read, match and build words from their sounds.

The Pond Arcade

Ribbit Crossing

Frog-hopping and a toy-car rally, where right answers win frogs.

The Music Shop

Donut Roost

Play guitar notes in time, bake donuts and feed a hungry dragon.

The Library

Word Search

The week's spellings hidden in a grid, with an easier and a harder way to play.

The Town Hall

What Could I Be?

Fourteen questions about the kind of work that might suit you, with real people who do it.

The Vet's

What Animal Are You?

A personality quiz across land and sea: which of 300 creatures are you?

Coming soon

More on the way

Empty plots around the village are waiting for new games. Each one gets a building of its own.

Day, night and seasons

It follows the real clock

Play after school and the lamps are coming on. Visit in December and there's snow on the trees.

โ˜€๏ธDaytimeBirdsong and butterflies
๐ŸŒ‡SunsetA warm glow over the roofs
๐Ÿฆ‰NightLit windows and an owl
โ„๏ธSeasonsFalling leaves, snow, blossom

Come and have a wander

It works best on an iPad or a computer, and on phones too. Family members sign in with their PIN; visitors can look round as a guest.

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Made for family and friends. Personal, not commercial: no ads, no cookies.