Academy original programDefine who your likely players are, and find where they already gather.
Your Operator Gameplan
Find Where Your Players Gather
AvailableRead Player Behavior in the Wild
AvailableBuild a Player-Driven Content System
AvailableOptimize With One-Variable Experiments
Coming soonEach Program is an ordered path to one practical artifact.
A practitioner track for community, moderation, and design folks who want to build game spaces where players of every background feel safe, seen, and able to play. Three packs take you from first-session belonging, through safety as inclusion, to accessibility from concept. Built with the IGDA Foundation.
The IGDA Foundation's on-ramp for new and aspiring game developers. Learn how the industry actually works and where you fit, build a portfolio that gets you hired, and set the wellbeing habits that make a games career last. Three packs, built with the IGDA Foundation.
Academy original programFor the operator who has lost a safety budget fight. You will learn why the argument fails structurally, how to read what safety actually costs a public company, and how to build the one-page case your finance team can act on. Built on Roblox's 2026 disclosures, but the moves transfer to any game.
Prosocial by Design is for the people who design and run live games: designers, community leads, and trust and safety practitioners. Across three Commute Packs you learn to build games that produce trust, cooperation, and belonging by default, using the research-backed methods from the Digital Thriving Playbook. You finish able to spot prosocial opportunities, apply named design methods like Chapters and RPM, and measure social health well enough to defend the work in a roadmap review. Complete all three packs to earn the Prosocial Design Practitioner credential, co-issued with the Thriving in Games Group.
Built from Player Driven's coverage of Games for Change 2026, including conversations with G4C president Susanna Pollack, research director Dr. Rachel Kowert, and Raising Good Gamers lead Arana Shapiro. Across two Commute Packs you learn to name the invisible good games already produce and back it with real stories and research, then design for it: passing the fun test, moving safety work upstream of moderation, and using self-determination theory and the SPACE framework as working tools. You finish able to make the impact case for your own game and pitch one design change that would amplify it.
Levels describe the decisions each Program prepares you to make.
Learn the domain and core concepts
→Apply the craft in practical, day-to-day work
→Make strategic and organizational decisions
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