Games in the Yekamaka Universe turn its stories, threads, and characters into playable experiences. Children don’t just read about Yekamaka—they move through it, solve its puzzles, and practice real skills through board games, card games, and digital adventures.
Board Games
The Thread Gateway Adventure Game
A cooperative/strategic board game where players travel through gateways, realms, and challenges using different emotional and thinking “threads.”
Children practice:
- Planning and decision-making
- Cooperation and role-sharing
- Managing risk, surprises, and setbacks
The Great Park Puzzle
A location-based puzzle game set in a central Yekamaka park.
Players must notice patterns, symbols, and clues to unlock hidden paths and secrets.
Supports:
- Observation and pattern recognition
- Patience, persistence, and collaboration
Realm Racing
A dynamic race through different realms, each with its own rules and challenges.
Children learn:
- Flexible thinking in changing conditions
- Strategy, timing, and adapting plans on the fly
Emotional Challenge Board Game
A board game focused on emotional situations, choices, and conversations.
Players draw scenarios, pick responses, and explore outcomes.
Helps build:
- Emotional vocabulary
- Empathy and perspective-taking
- Problem-solving in social situations
Card Games
Character Cards
Collectible and playable cards featuring Yekamaka characters, their strengths, struggles, and skills.
Used for:
- Quick games and challenges
- Story prompts and role-play
- Learning what each character represents emotionally and cognitively
Thread Creatures
Cards representing magical thread creatures linked to emotions, values, or inner states.
Children:
- Combine creatures for different effects
- Learn how feelings and strengths interact
- Explore metaphors for their own inner world
Spark Pen Drawing Cards
Prompt cards that invite children to draw scenes, creatures, inventions, or emotional moments with the “Spark Pen” idea in mind.
Supports:
- Creative expression
- Visual storytelling
- Turning feelings and ideas into images
Peeko Insight Deck
Cards with small wisdom prompts, reflection questions, and calming ideas, in Peeko’s voice.
Great for:
- Check-ins at home or in class
- Bedtime reflections
- Group conversations
607 Pattern Deck
Logic and pattern cards involving sequences, rules, and puzzles in 607’s style.
Helps children:
- Practice logical reasoning
- Spot and create patterns
- Enjoy “thinking hard” as play
Digital & Mobile Games
Gateway Simulator Game
A digital experience where children explore gateways, realms, and choices.
They:
- Navigate branching paths
- Experiment with different decisions
- See how small choices can change outcomes
Map Puzzle Game
A map-based digital game that invites players to:
- Unlock locations and secrets
- Solve geographical and symbolic puzzles
- Understand how places in Yekamaka connect to feelings, memories, and events
“Build Your Thread” App
A digital tool where children design and grow their own emotional and value “threads.”
They:
- Choose colors, symbols, and meanings
- Track small actions and micro-wins
- See their thread change over time
Spark Pen Creative App
A drawing and creation app inspired by the Spark Pen.
Children can:
- Draw characters, realms, and objects
- Add glow effects and animated touches
- Turn their ideas into shareable Yekamaka scenes
Emotional Adventure Quests
Interactive quests where children help characters through emotional challenges.
They:
- Choose responses and strategies
- Practice naming feelings and needs
- Learn how empathy, honesty, and calm help solve problems
607 Logic & Coding Challenges
Mini-challenges that blend logic puzzles and beginner coding concepts, guided by 607.
Children practice:
- Step-by-step thinking
- Cause-and-effect
- Debugging and iteration
AR & VR Experiences
Yekamaka AR Thread Activations
Augmented reality experiences that let children:
- See glowing threads appear in real spaces
- Trigger small story moments and creature encounters
- Connect the physical world with the Yekamaka universe
VR Thread Realms
Immersive visits to selected realms in virtual reality.
Children can:
- Explore environments tied to emotions and values
- Interact with objects and symbols
- Experience “walking through” stories they’ve read
VR Exploration of Book Locations
Virtual tours of important locations from the books—parks, maps, gateways, and more—designed for:
- Sense of presence and immersion
- Geography, memory, and story comprehension
Emotional Skill Simulations
VR or mixed-reality scenes where children practice:
- Calming down in big-feeling situations
- Making choices when others disagree
- Noticing body signals, thoughts, and options
How Games Support Learning
Across all Yekamaka games—physical, digital, and immersive—children are quietly practicing:
- Leadership and initiative (choosing paths, taking roles, leading teams)
- Empathy and collaboration (understanding others, working together)
- Creativity and imagination (drawing, storytelling, inventing solutions)
- Critical and systems thinking (patterns, logic, consequences, strategies)
- Emotional intelligence (naming feelings, regulating, reflecting)
Games make these skills feel like adventure, discovery, and fun, so children can absorb and apply them without feeling like they are being “taught a lesson.”