Friend World is a family-guided game concept that supports safe, non-violent play through an accompanying parental-control app that helps parents stay meaningfully involved in their child’s gaming experience.

App Guided Play

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Fantasy Fun

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Healing Adventures

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Family Connection

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Video Game

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App Guided Play ✳︎ Fantasy Fun ✳︎ Healing Adventures ✳︎ Family Connection ✳︎ Video Game ✳︎

Teenager using a computer with a headset, guided by parent-friendly controls in the Friend World app

The son gaming at home

Teenager becoming distressed while playing a video game, highlighting the need for parent-guided controls in the Friend World app

Son becomes distressed while playing

A father working at his job while staying connected to his child through the Friend World app

Dad is working

Mobile phone showing the Friend World app with parent-controlled settings for managing a child’s game experience

App in Dad’s pocket alerts him

A smartphone screen displaying a game interface with three smiling emoji faces in yellow, green, and red, mounted on a cartoonish background, with a finger tapping the green emoji. The interface includes options labeled 'Pause' and 'Home' and a slider for mood, with the mood currently set to 'Spookiness'.

Dad adjusts the app to calm his son

Parent-controlled game settings screen in the Friend World app showing adjustable sliders for spookiness, difficulty, combat, tone of voice, and learning moments

These tools provide an important safety net, but they do not typically offer in-depth, dynamic control over narrative tone, artistic direction, or real-time gameplay environments.