Noodle Goose started by ignoring a lot of the advice people give you about how you're "supposed" to do things.

We met in an online reality-game community, playing social strategy games built around bluffing, alliances, chaos and outthinking the people around us. Not exactly the traditional path to starting a game company, but we took the risk and it paid off.

We built Noodle Goose around a simple belief that games can be fun, challenging, meaningful and actually useful at the same time. Our first games were created using principles of Game-Based Learning for a camp supporting autistic youth. Through play, participants worked on communication, leadership and skills for the transition to adulthood. No boring worksheets disguised as games. No purpose stapled onto the side. If the games weren't genuinely fun, they didn't make the cut.

That became the DNA of Noodle Goose.

Since then, we've kept marching in our own direction, making games, events and experiences that are clever, accessible, a little chaotic and built around the people actually playing them.

We don't believe accessibility should be an afterthought.

We don't believe meaningful work has to be serious. And we're not interested in following the flock just because that path has already been worn down.

We'd rather make something strange, make it matter and see where it takes us.