Answer Campus is an episodic narrative game series about your first year of college, identity, and the conversations that don’t have easy answers.
As you navigate the interactive stories, you’ll respond to challenging scenarios and choose from a range of actions—supportive, diplomatic, combative, or disengaged. By seeing how characters react and how relationships shift over time, you can try out different approaches and feel the impact of your choices.
With multiple characters and stories sharing the same campus, you experience the world from different perspectives and gain a deeper understanding of how identity, bias, and belonging play out in everyday college life.
Answer Campus is the first game built in the AnswerVerse, an open-source framework for episodic games about college life and the everyday tensions around identity, bias, and belonging.
AnswerVerse connects multiple games, campuses, and research projects into a shared universe, so new episodes and partners can build on a common set of characters, systems, and tools.
Learn more about the framework and related projects on the AnswerVerse website .
The first Answer Campus release connected eight challenging conversations about identity and discrimination. It’s still available as a standalone demo.
First Semester takes the core idea of the demo and expands it into a full first-term experience: moving in, finding your people, and navigating uncomfortable conversations that don’t have easy answers.
Development is in full swing, and the current build is available for playtesting.
Episode 2 is in early development and will continue the Answer Campus story with new perspectives and systems, building on what we learn from First Semester playtests.
If you want to be part of that process, you can sign up as a playtester.
We’re actively looking for students, educators, and researchers to playtest Episode 1: First Semester and future episodes of Answer Campus. Your feedback directly shapes the stories, pacing, and classroom fit.
Join the Answer Campus playtest list
Already on the list? You can still play the latest build on itch.io .