A decade building
learning worlds.

A small team
with a long obsession.

A small, senior team of designers, engineers, and learning scientists — most of us have been at this for years.

I first had the idea for Tyto Online while playing World of Warcraft. I was playing and realized how much I learned just through experience, and became fascinated with educational games. As I went through a PhD program in Education, I kept linking ideal learning models back to gaming mechanics and approaches. I accidentally created a mental model for what amazing learning would look like within a game, and assumed it existed.

However, when I started digging in for my dissertation, I discovered it didn’t — that the educational games market had some major limitations for learning impact. They tended to be shallow learning, and the experiences were fragmented without the opportunity for long-term learning.

So the idea that we could create a single learning game platform began to emerge for me: with deep learning that focused on skill building, and with many areas of content so that learners and educators could easily use game-based learning regularly as part of their learning process.

I am excited to help reach this ideal goal of what learning could be in games that people have dreamt about for a long time, but had yet to be reached.

From a hunch to a platform.