Affordance Studio

Affordance Studio is a Canadian design studio that creates serious games and gamification experiences for learning. Its team combines video game industry veterans with university researchers and teachers.

The studio works with clients to turn their content into games, using user testing throughout a project and updating products after release.

What Affordance Studio offers

• Serious games — custom games built for learning and training.
• Gamification — game mechanics added to existing content and programmes.
• Gamestorm workshop — a session that teaches clients to think like game designers.
• Transmedia storytelling — stories delivered across several media channels.
• IoT and games — digital products connecting games with connected devices.

Who it works with

Museums, governments, schools, businesses and nonprofit organisations. Named partners include National Bank of Canada, Desjardins, KPMG and Logitech.

Key facts

• Founded: 2012
• Country: Canada