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Greenhouse Developers!

Make games.
Reach real players.
Earn side income.

Greenhouse gives educational game developers a focused place to publish games without fighting the whole Steam, itch.io, or mobile app market.

Do what you already love: make games. Use proven mechanics. Add a clear learning goal. Reach families looking for educational games.

See What We're Looking For

Mainstream game publishing is brutal.

The Crowded Wild-West

Steam is crowded. App stores are expensive. Game jobs are highly competitive. Most indie projects, jam builds, and class projects get uploaded once, then completely disappear into the void.

Traditional platform algorithms reward retention loops, massive budgets, and manipulative design rather than quality time, creativity, or mental exploration.

COMMON OUTCOME: 99% OF CREATIVE ENDEAVORS GET BURIED.

The Greenhouse Opportunity

Educational games are still a messy, underbuilt category. Too many feel like dry, boring worksheets with simple graphics, while genuinely fun learning games have no obvious platform home.

Greenhouse is built for that exact gap: a focused space for real, engaging learning games to be easily discovered by families, and a way for you to earn extra income from doing what you do best - making great games.

OUR TARGET: RESPECTING PLAYERS AND REWARDING BUILDERS.

Educational games do not need to be “chocolate-covered broccoli.”

We are NOT looking for Dora or Blue’s Clues repackaged: preschool cartoons, spelling drills, or dry worksheets with points attached.

Greenhouse is for real games that teach through play: tycoons, mysteries, simulations, puzzles, strategy games, roleplay, resource management, deck-builders, and choice-based stories. The point is not to hide learning inside a game. The point is to make the learning happen through what players do.

Take mechanics players already love. Build the learning objective into how they win, fail, choose, and improve.

PROBABILITY & MEMORY

Pokémon

Taught millions of kids probability, type advantage match-ups, stat mathematics, and deep strategic memory.

LOGIC & PATTERNS

Minesweeper

Built spatial logic, quick deduction, numerical grid reasoning, and systematic risk management.

HISTORY & PLANNING

Civilization

Instilled history, geography, diplomatic negotiation, infrastructure economics, and long-term planning.

CREATIVITY & SYSTEMS

Minecraft

Encouraged massive architectural creativity, electrical systems thinking via Redstone, resource tracking, and material composition.

Why build for Greenhouse?

More money for less work, all while doing what you love: making great games.

Less Publishing Effort

You build the game. Greenhouse takes care of the marketing, parent-facing educational positioning, storefront listing, and getting it directly in front of school networks and families.

Side Income Potential

Turn your class projects, jam prototypes, hackathon builds, or side projects into active income. Avoid leaving your best work private on your hard drive.

Develop your Portfolio

Get real player analytics, ratings, high-fidelity educator feedback, and gameplay traction that makes your professional developer portfolio ten times stronger.

What We Want

“Your game needs to be fun, but it also needs a clear educational purpose.”

STEM and logic

Math, coding, science, biology, logic puzzles, systems thinking, reasoning grids.

Strategy and simulation

Planning, budgeting, environmental sustainability, civics, resources, city building.

Story and decisions

Empathy, ethics, linguistics, history consequences, communication, writing, societal challenges.

Creativity and design

Art principles, worldbuilding, storytelling, music grids, spatial inventions, physics playgrounds.

Life skills

Digital safety, financial literacy, teamwork coordination, health choices, critical resilience.

Have a category we didn’t cover?

Education is a spectrum. As long as it can be reasonably justified as educational, we want to hear about it!

What We Don't Want

“Greenhouse has a parent’s promise to keep, so not everything gets listed.”

No clear learning goal

If the game is just standard combat or hypercasual clicks without any educational merit, it won't fit.

Unsafe or unsuitable content

Strictly no nudity, severe violence, hate speech, bullying, or mature content.

Copied or stolen work

No unauthorized asset copies, blatant clones, or stolen gameplay mechanics without permission.

Ads or microtransactions

Absolutely no surprise monetization, banner ads, payload trackers, or paid game upgrades.

Addiction-first design

No endless loops or empty clicker slop games built mainly to trap kids. We respect their time.

We care about games that respect players.

The best games we grew up with challenged and taught us through play, not manipulation. Greenhouse is looking for that same spirit.

How Listing Works

Submit your game

Send us your game build and basic details about who it is for and what educational goals it covers.

We review it

Our core curation committee tests the game for educational purpose, family-friendly content, licensing, and stability.

Create your listing

Build your developer dashboard listing with descriptive screenshots, age ranges, estimated playtime, and player hooks.

Go live

Your WebGL / HTML5 game gets listed in the Greenhouse library where paying subscribers can immediately play it in-browser.

Earn and improve

Receive gameplay hours payouts monthly. Review gameplay stats and player ratings to roll out updates and build your professional portfolio.

Developer Documents

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Developer Onboarding

Getting started listing your games on the Greenhouse library.

Prepare your game build: We support WebGL / HTML5 files that can be embedded directly in the player dashboard.

Create your listing metadata: Draft a player-friendly hook, target age ranges, approximate playtime, and a list of key learning concepts.

Submit for review: Upload your materials directly to our secure submission portal.

Approval: Our team will test for gameplay, performance, learning clarity, and family safety within 5-7 business days.

FAQ

Do I need to be an education expert?

Does my game need to feel like school?

Can I submit a class project or game jam build?

Can I list a game already on other platforms?

How do developers earn?

Are ads or microtransactions allowed?

What makes Greenhouse different from other publishing platforms?

Will I make more money here than on other publishing platforms?

Have a game the world would love?

Whether it started as coursework, a game jam build, a side project, or a serious production build, Greenhouse gives it a better shot at being played.