🎮 Pilot Session · May 30, 2026 Fairmount Community Library Ages 8+ 6 Young Game Directors

Children build games.
Games build community.

GiveBounty Games teaches children 8 and up to design and direct real games that trigger donations for Fort Worth causes every time someone plays. No coding required. Just creativity, collaboration, and a lot of heart.

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May 30Pilot Date
6Children in Pilot
100%To Charity
0Coding Required

The GiveBounty Game Jam

From blank page to published game in one afternoon

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Step 1

Pick a Cause

Children choose a Fort Worth cause that matters to them the animal shelter, food bank, library, environment, and more.

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Step 2

Become a Game Director

Every child becomes the Director of their own game designing the hero, world, and mechanics with AI as their co-pilot.

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Step 3

Play, Test & Improve

Children play their game live on screen, give feedback like real QA testers, and iterate until it feels right.

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Step 4

Ship It

Their game goes live on givebounty.org. Every time someone earns a GiveBounty, it unlocks a real donation for their cause.

What Children Actually Learn

No coding. No prior experience. Real 21st-century creative skills.

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AI Collaboration

How to direct AI like a tool, not a replacement. Children learn to prompt, refine, and lead keeping the creative vision their own.

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Creative Direction

Genre, story, characters, mechanics, aesthetics. Every creative decision belongs to the child. AI executes it.

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How Games Are Made

Real studio milestones: Inception, First Playable, Alpha, QA, Ship. The actual language of the industry.

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Giving Feedback

How to articulate what's not working and why. QA thinking. Iteration. The difference between vision and execution.

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Community Impact

Their game raises real contributions for causes they chose. Creativity with a purpose bigger than themselves.

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Shipping Something Real

They leave with a published game at a live URL. Something they made, with their name on it, that the world can play.

Ready to give your child a real game credit?

6 spots. One afternoon. A published game and a real donation to a Fort Worth cause.

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🕹️ Featured Games

Demo games built with the GiveBounty Game Jam Engine. See all seasons →

View All Seasons ›
Operation Bookworm
▶ PLAY
Director: Sofia
Operation Bookworm
📚 Library
Leaf Saves the Forest
▶ PLAY
Director: Marcus
Leaf Saves the Forest
🌿 Nature
Cleo's Kitchen Run
▶ PLAY
Director: Cleo
Cleo's Kitchen Run
🍎 Food Bank
River's Rescue Run
▶ PLAY
Director: River
River's Rescue Run
🐾 Wildlife
Marco's Market Toss
▶ PLAY
Director: Marco
Marco's Market Toss
🍎 Food Bank
The Recital
▶ PLAY
Director: Demo
The Recital
🎵 Fort Worth Youth Orchestra
See All Seasons & Stats →

What's a GiveBounty? ✨

A GiveBounty is an in-game achievement earned by playing a child-made game. At season close, 70% of the pool splits equally across every cause the children chose. The remaining 30% goes to the cause whose game earned the most GiveBounties that season.

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Donations from businesses and individualsAnyone can contribute to the season pool — local businesses, families, and community members. Every dollar is committed to Fort Worth charities before the season starts.
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Players earn GiveBountiesPlay any child-made game and earn GiveBounties by reaching in-game milestones. Each one fires a real donation from the season pool.
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100% reaches the causesAt season close, 70% of the pool splits equally across every cause. The remaining 30% goes to the cause that earned the most GiveBounties this season. Every dollar goes to charity.
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The pool is funded by everyone100% of pool donations go directly to the chosen charities. GiveBounty Games covers its costs through program fees and direct support, and we never take a cut from the pool. Part of every program tuition also goes directly into the pool.
✨ Example: River's Rescue Run
🐾 First Rescue!Earned ✓
🦊 Halfway ThereEarned ✓
🌿 All 12 Rescued7 / 12
2 / 3
GiveBounties Earned This Run
At season close, 70% of the pool splits equally across every cause. The remaining 30% goes to the cause that earned the most GiveBounties this season.

Your child could direct a game that earns these.

Every GiveBounty they build into their game is a milestone someone else unlocks. The more people play, the more Fort Worth gives.

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Why give to the season pool?

When you put money in the pool, 70% reaches every cause equally and 30% goes to the cause whose game earned the most GiveBounties. You're not just donating — you're letting the community decide where the extra support lands, one play session at a time. Part of every program tuition also goes directly into the pool.

We deliberately choose hyper-local organizations that don't have national marketing budgets or celebrity donors. A child's game might be the most attention they get all year.

Support GiveBounty Games

Families pay to participate, but running the program still costs money: technology, tools, materials, and the work of making every session great. Direct support helps us keep doing it.

GiveBounty Games is a Fort Worth nonprofit 501(c)(3) in formation. Every dollar supports the program directly. None of it touches the charity pool.

May 30, 2026 · Fairmount Community Library

6 spots left. Children ages 8 and up. $75 enrollment. Spot confirmed before payment.

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