Grab your headphones! Adam and Adam sat down with BJ Shea’s Geek Nation “Board Game Alliance” podcast to chat about Game to Grow. Learn more about Critical Core as well as Game to Grow’s current programs and projects dedicated to the use of games for therapeutic, educational, and community growth. The full episode is available […]
Here’s a Tale from Adam Johns: “Trust, Exercised” At my table, it was recently revealed that one of the characters kept hidden crucial information that could have been used to help prevent a terrible disaster. The character who kept the information brought up how they don’t trust the rest of the group and are only […]
TTRPGkids got a look at Critical Core and liked what they saw! We’re so happy to hear the positive feedback from them. Their review takes a look at what we included in Critical Core for players, GMs, and for Facilitators as well as a pretty detailed review of our characters and character sheets. […]
Game to Grow has been using games like Dungeons and Dragons and Minecraft to help individuals build social confidence, form friendships, and find meaningful community for years. Our flagship social groups have expanded virtually in the past few years to reach individuals around the world, and a recent grant from Child’s Play Charity allowed us […]
The Critical Core team, Virginia Spielmann, Adam Johns, and myself (Adam Davis) were featured on the Affect Autism podcast and blog in a feature about our “Beginner’s Box” for therapeutic role-playing games. It’s a fantastic article with links to a ton of useful resources about the foundations of both Critical Core and the Game to […]
I had the pleasure of sitting with Ellen and the rest of the team at Nice Games Club to discuss the latest happenings at Game to Grow, including the global expansion of our game-based therapeutic social skills groups, our therapeutic role-playing game beginner’s box Critical Core, and told a few stories from behind the screen. […]
A recent Washington Post article, How Dungeons and Dragons Somehow Became More Popular than Ever, explores the sudden resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games in popular culture. Adam Johns and I have been using role-playing games for eight years to help kids build social skills, and have seen so much change in that […]
We’ll be in Boston at PAX East from March 28 to April 1st! We’ll have table space again thanks to our friends at Table Titans, so please come visit us at table 12090! Come talk about our mission, learn about our groups in the Seattle area that use role-playing games to help kids and teens […]