Hi, I'm Lisa! 👋
It's called Choose Squad. You choose your job, your house, your pets and your friends in Fairfax… and you learn math and reading without even noticing. (Okay, you notice a little. But it's fun!)
I was born in Palo Alto. My mom and dad are from Argentina, and they are entrepreneurs. That is a big word. It means they make new things with computers. A LOT of new things, one after another.
So you would think I grew up with tablets everywhere, right?
Nope. 😄
My mom and dad learned that screens are not good for little kids' brains. So at home: no TV. No video games. No tablet games.
At first I thought that was the worst rule in the whole world. But guess what happens when you don't have screens? You make stuff.
↓ look what I made!
These are real. I made them with paper, markers, tape and stickers. My family had to play them A LOT.
It's like Monopoly (in Argentina it's called Estanciero), but it's my town. You walk around Fairfax and buy or pay at real places: Scoop $10, Mai Thai $20, the farmers market $80.
Choose Squad is FairPlay… but it moves! 🚶♀️
My first game, when I was just learning to write. You can tell. 😄
A book. Puppies. Enough said.
52 + 38 = 90. I do these for fun. Really!
I went to Waldorf Peninsula, and now I go to RVC in Fairfax. I have friends at Waldorf, at Heartwood, and at my new school too. I love my friends SO much.
At school they started letting us use a Chromebook. That's where I learned to type on a computer. Tap tap tap. ⌨️ I got pretty fast.
When I go to parties or play dates, some of my friends have tablets and video games. Everybody is playing… and I'm not allowed. 😩 I always wanted to play. Always, always.
So one day I had an idea:
"If I make my OWN game, then I can play it!"
I was already making games with paper and cardboard. And I'm learning math and reading at school, and I LOVE them. So I thought: what if my game is about real life, and you get smarter while you play?
best idea ever!!
My dad works with AI. I call them his robots. I asked him: "Can I borrow your robots?" He said yes!
So I drew my game on paper first: the title, the screens, the buttons. Then I told the robots everything, and we built it together, step by step. I tested it again and again, and every time I found something to fix, the robots fixed it.
Now I can play Choose Squad on the tablet I use for reading, audiobooks and music. 🎧📖
You live in Fairfax, with RVC, Heartwood, Peri Park and Scoop ice cream. Your choices, your chores and your answers change your day.
2nd or 3rd grade for now, so the math and reading are just right for you.
Vet, chef, astronaut, doctor, teacher, artist, horse trainer or builder. Builders fix broken houses! 🔨
Answer math and reading questions at work. Wrong answers cost $5, so you learn to think first.
Surf, boat, climb or snowboard — right in the middle of the fun part, you answer math or reading to keep going. Miss one and… wipeout!
Feed your pets, clean the poop (yes, real poop 💩), go to school and eat your meals.
They get hungry, need walks and poop like real animals, even when the game is closed.
Start in a tent, buy a house, a big house… or a castle with a baby dragon.
Morning, night, rain and heat. No raincoat in the rain or no sunscreen in the sun? You get sick! 🤒
Sell your old stuff and buy your friends' stuff. Prices go down every day it doesn't sell.
Visit friends, chat, play hide and seek, and celebrate birthdays and holidays.
Look at that list. Surfing. Snowboarding. Biking. Playing outside. Building stuff. Those are real things I love — not screens. So in Choose Squad, the coolest parts of the game are those same things: catch a wave, race a boat on the lake, climb Half Dome, snowboard at Tahoe.
And here's my trick: when you're in the most interesting part, you have to finish a little math or reading to keep going and win the mini-game. Get it right → you ride on. Get it wrong → wipeout! 🌊 So you practice school stuff because you want to finish the adventure, not because someone told you to.
Games that make your brain grow, not melt.
My dad says AI and technology are here to stay, and kids are going to use them. That's just true. But a lot of games make people go a little cuckoo 🌀. You play and play and your brain just… melts.
So my dream is to build learning games for every age before high school, so kids use technology the smart way: to learn, to be kind to their friends, and to take care of things. Choose Squad is my first one.
Written with my mom and dad. Choose Squad is built for short play sessions, with real-life habits inside the game: meals, sleep, school and chores.
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