A practice tool children actually want to use.

Engine Explorers turns the interoception work you already do — noticing body signals, choosing a regulation strategy, practising it — into a game a child can play at home between sessions. Informed by the Alert Program, built around the engine-speed metaphor.

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Framework fidelity notes

The game is informed by the Alert Program's engine-speed framework (low / just right / high) and by CASEL SEL competencies and mindfulness practice. It does not reproduce Alert Program materials and is not affiliated with it. Key design choices that matter clinically:

No wrong answers. The engine dial, body map, and social scenarios are errorless-learning — children are coached and retried, never told they failed. This is deliberate and matches how interoceptive skill builds without shame.
Tools are practised physically, not just named. Slow sips, wall pushes with a 10-count, breathing pacers, sensory calming — the same heavy-work and deep-pressure strategies used in OT sessions.
Up- AND down-regulation. Most children's resources only teach calming down. The game includes low-engine wake-up tools (movement, bright light, strong input), which is core to Alert Program practice.
No streaks, no guilt, no notifications. The anti-dark-pattern design means a child who misses days is never punished — regulation practice should not become another source of anxiety.

Session-use ideas

Assessment window: watch which tools the child gravitates to in the Toolbox Workshop — it's a quick interoception and sensory-preference snapshot.
Home programme: assign one chapter + one real-world mission per week; the child's grown-up confirms missions with a hold-to-confirm button, so homework is collaborative.
Telehealth: the game runs in any browser, including screen-share, with a fullscreen Group Brain Break mode for co-regulation sessions.
Generalisation: the 15 real-world missions move skills off-screen — "try a wall push before homework", "notice your engine at dinner" — exactly the transfer step that makes clinic work stick.

Clinical considerations

Scope note: Engine Explorers is an educational tool, not a therapeutic intervention, and does not diagnose, treat, or claim to reduce symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, or any condition. Use your clinical judgement about fit for each child, and confirm the author/credibility line with the developer before recommending it in materials.

The game is free, cookieless, stores all data on-device, and contains no ads or in-app purchases — suitable for recommendation to families.

Engine Explorers is informed by the Alert Program framework (an independent framework — not affiliated), CASEL SEL competencies, and mindfulness practice. It is not a medical or therapeutic device.