Nick Button-Brown On Creating "Welcoming Experiences For Kids" Through Games

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While adapting popular IPs into games is nothing new, it's rare for a publisher to focus solely on games for younger audiences. Outright Games specializes in family-friendly experiences, adapting popular children's shows into playable titles. The company has recently helped produce games centered around franchises like,,,, and many more.

Adapting these IPs for a younger crowd comes with its own unique challenges — for many kids, these titles represent some of their first experiences with video games, which means they need to be accessible to a much larger degree than typical releases. It's also important to balance a game that both adults and kids can enjoy, so that parents can play alongside their children. Outright Games has launched a slew of these titles in the past year, including the release of this week.

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sat down with Outright Games' chair of the board of directors Nick Button-Brown to discuss how IP adaptations first begin, balancing fun for older and younger players, and the responsibility that comes with crafting children's games.

Screen Rant: First I would just love to learn a little bit about how a collaboration project usually begins for Outright Games with another IP. How do you typically find whatever your next big project will be?

Nick Button‑Brown: There's a few different ways that projects can start. I guess the most important thing is that we like making games for kids. And so fundamentally we want to make a game that works for kids, and that has a few important parts of it. We definitely like the social side, but it has to be appropriate for a kid. A three-year-old kid playing Paw Patrol doesn't want to play a GTA-style game.