LIFE HAPPENS! — Build Your Future

LIFE HAPPENS! is an educational life simulation. Learners start at age eighteen, choose a pathway, and practice real decisions about education, careers, money, housing, transportation, relationships, wellness, responsibilities, setbacks and recovery — inside a fictional world where a mistake costs a lesson instead of a year of someone's life.

Academic and life-skill activities grow out of the story rather than sitting in a quiz section: comparing unit prices at the grocery store, reading a lease, writing a professional message, working an actual shift at a job, recovering after an unexpected expense.

Rich Off Education created the educational concept, game design, scenarios, characters and instructional approach behind this experience and publishes it. No claims about organizational structure, nonprofit status, funding or legal entity type are made here, because those details are not part of this product's verified information.

• Choices have consequences, and many consequences arrive later than the choice did.
• Setbacks are recoverable. Recovery is a skill the game teaches on purpose.
• There is no single correct life pathway.
• College, community college, trade and apprenticeship, workforce entry, and military pathways are presented as different routes — never as a ranking of human worth.
• Practice beats lecture: learners try, get feedback, and try again with support.
• Support should never be labelled as a deficit. Supported, Standard and Challenge modes describe the activity, not the student.

Original game design, educational concept, scenario writing and art direction: Rich Off Education. The two recurring guide characters are original Rich Off Education mentors and are intentionally distinct from the player's own customizable character. No individual developer or contributor names are listed here.

Built with these open-source technologies, each under its own license:

• React and React DOM
• TanStack Start, Router, and Query
• Vite
• TypeScript
• Tailwind CSS
• Radix UI primitives and the shadcn/ui component patterns
• Lucide icons
• Zod
• Recharts
• Sonner