I want to play
Explore original video games, board games, word puzzles and game-based learning experiences.
Games · Events · Useful chaos
Games for spaces that need more play.
We build games, live experiences and strange little worlds that bring people together.
Noodle Goose is an independent Canadian studio making original games, immersive events, competition formats and playful experiences for entertainment, learning and business.
Choose your adventure
What brought you to the toybox?
Pick a path. We make more reasons to play—on screens, around tables, inside events and anywhere people need a better way to connect.
I need an unforgettable event
Discover immersive fan experiences, live game shows and community events that put people inside the story.
Let’s build something
Bring us your audience, problem or gloriously unfinished idea. We will help make it playable.
$30K+
Gross fan-event revenue
130+
Game jam participants
20+
Jam games created
250+
Discord community
Played with · Supported by · Featured in
Unity
Toronto Star
Wero
Comma
Ran Foods
Toronto Games Week
Choose a toy to see how we played together.
About Noodle Goose
We started by doing things “wrong.”
We met in an online reality-game community, playing social strategy games built around bluffing, alliances, chaos and outthinking the people around us. It was not the traditional path to starting a game company. We took the risk anyway.
Our first games used game-based learning to support autistic youth working on communication, leadership and the transition to adulthood. No boring worksheets disguised as games. No purpose stapled onto the side. If the games were not genuinely fun, they did not make the cut.
That became our DNA: clever, accessible experiences with heart, purpose and just enough chaos.
Make good games. Do some good. Have a weird time.
Our values
The goose is bold, loud, fearless, confident and a little ridiculous. That is pretty much the energy we bring to everything we make.
Play with purpose
Games can entertain and matter. We look for ways for our creativity to leave something good behind.
Make it weird
Safe ideas are boring. We like strange concepts, ridiculous moments and things people have not played before.
Everyone gets to play
Accessibility and inclusive design are not afterthoughts. They are creative tools that make better games.
Be aggressive
We honk in the direction we want to go. Meaningful creative work takes nerve, ownership and a willingness to risk being different.
Meet the co-founders
Two brains. One goose.
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Co-Founder · Game Designer · Producer
Karen Mak
Karen brings together game-based learning, healthcare, community building and game-show production. Her work helps people discover their strengths through play—and makes sure the magic works for the people actually playing.
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Co-Founder · Game Designer · Creative Director
Dan “Kilby” Kilby
Dan is a strategy-game designer, marketer and award-winning filmmaker fascinated by the psychology of play. He brings story, spectacle and human behaviour together to build weird, strategic experiences people remember.
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Original games
Play weird. Learn something.
Original games for entertainment, learning and the satisfying moment when a ridiculous idea suddenly works.
Three-round puzzle arcade
Change one sound. Change the wor(L)d.
Solve three tiny transformations to earn your official Goose Rank. Wrong answers are allowed. Dignity is optional.
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Round 1: Turn FART into a tasty dessert.
Choose the replacement tile that solves the clue.
F
A
R
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Choose a tile
Arcade complete
Your Goose Rank
Certified Honker
Word puzzle game
You Can Change the Wor(L)d
Change one sound and transform the world. Turn plants into pants, a fart into a tart and wordplay into a strategic adventure.
Adventure game
Coming of Ages
A time-travelling 2D adventure about growing up, making it on your own and surviving the everyday chaos of human history.
Game-based learning
Escape the Ordinary
An immersive life-skills escape room where neurodiverse youth tackled budgeting, transit, cooking and household chaos through play.
Immersive events
We bring the energy.
Fan experiences, community gatherings and live games that feel bigger, stranger and more alive than a standard event.
Immersive fan experience
Swim into the Sun
A private Toronto Harbour K-pop boat party with themed food, games, prizes, performance energy and a city skyline.
Accessible design
You Can Play This Game Jam
Our accessibility-focused game jam challenges creators to treat access as an act of exciting game design—not a compliance checklist.
Live game shows
Put your audience inside the game.
We design and produce game-show formats for live events, brands and communities—from stage-ready competitions to custom challenges built around your people.
Creative services
We help organizations make experiences more playable, memorable, inclusive and useful.
Custom games + challenges
Original branded games, competition formats, puzzles and interactive challenges for entertainment, education, marketing and events.
Event production
Creative concepting, programming, hosts, games and audience participation for immersive events and fan experiences.
Playtesting + format testing
Participant recruitment, facilitated sessions, rules evaluation, fairness analysis, audience feedback and actionable reports.
Consulting + workshops
Game development, accessibility, game-based learning, creative strategy and hands-on sessions for teams and emerging creators.
Step 01
Tell us the goal
Audience, problem, dream or gloriously unfinished idea.
Step 02
We make it playable
Concept, mechanics, story, accessibility and production plan.
Step 03
People play it
Prototype, test, facilitate and learn from real players.
Step 04
We make it sing
Refine, launch and create the moments people remember.
Contact
Let’s make something worth honking about.
Tell us what you are building, who it is for and why it needs more play.
Email us
Good reasons to get in touch
Custom games · Workshops · Playtesting · Fan experiences · Live game shows · Sponsorships · Speaking · Creative partnerships
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