REVOLVE! is a children’s card game of animal adaptation and evolution. Mix and match crazy creatures that can survive and thrive any challenge or climate.

With Revolve! Our design goals focused on providing a simple and educational game with broad age range appeal. The mechanics of the game needed to be accessible for young children but present interesting choices for the adults playing with them. Ultimately the design focused on fun and “feel good” matching and probability mechanics that embraced a lot of surprises and randomness, with just enough player agency that players would feel responsible for their wins but not punished for their losses and mistakes - creating a game experience where players young and old could be engaged and excited to see whatever happens next! Collaboration between mechanics and UI yielded the amazing visuals below, that did an incredible job explaining the rules of the game in an intuitive and visually delightful way.

Designed for 2-4 players ages 8 and up, Revolve! teaches young people about evolution, adaptation, anatomy, climate, matching, and probability.

Lead Designer: Jake Barnhart
Graphics and Visuals: Jameela Wahlgren