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The Verse — Games & Digital Therapeutics for a Healthier, More Connected World The Verse builds games and digital experiences that improve mental health, emotional wellbeing, and human connection. We’re a global community of creators—game designers, developers, artists, scientists, storytellers, and students—united by a shared purpose: to make technology that helps people flourish. ✨ What We Do We design game-based therapeutics, immersive experiences, and playful tools that help people breathe better, feel better, relate better, and grow. Our work blends: • Game Design + Wellbeing Science • Emotional Regulation + Prosociality • Ritual, Story, and Play + • Community + Co-creation Our philosophy is simple: Human-first. Collaborative. Holistic. Creative. Impact-driven. The Problem We’re Solving We live in a time of polycrisis: rising mental health challenges, loneliness, and disconnection. People need tools that are not only effective—but engaging, inspiring, and accessible. How We Create Impact We move ideas from research → prototypes → tested game experiences in partnership with clinicians, academics, and organizations. Every project aims to foster empathy, prosocial behavior, emotional regulation, and collective wellbeing. What We’re Building The Verse builds three transformative game worlds that use play to improve wellbeing and human connection. • WalkXR is an immersive Unreal Engine platform that turns real human challenges into embodied gameplay through storytelling, emotional-regulation mechanics, and ritual-based interaction, with themed “walks” like Power of Music, Diabetes Journey, and Bridging Differences. • Adventures in Breath introduces a new genre of breath-powered play, where players use breathing and humming to explore the magical world of Harmonia, regulate their nervous systems, and unlock sonic abilities. • Karma: The Six Realm Game is a choice-based prosocial RPG that rewards empathy, cooperation, and compassion, inviting players to grow by building relationships, repairing conflict, and using kindness as a core game mechanic. Games For Change - Game Development Internship (Unity & Unreal Engine) • We are an early stage startup with lots of gaming hats to wear. * • Game Design • Game Development • Unity or Unreal programmer: able to code/program. Contribute to existing projects and work with The Verse team to create new games and game mechanics. We are always open to new ideas! • Story Telling. • Graphic Design. • Art Direction. • Digtal Art & Animation. • Artists. • Philosophers. Who Thrives Here The Verse attracts people who want their work to mean something: • Undergrads searching for purpose • Grad students applying research to real-world impact • Technologists seeking mission-driven creativity • Artists & Healers wanting to inspire healing • Academics craving applied practice • Builders who want to help shape a “metaverse for human flourishing” We receive 100+ applications a month from around the world. People join The Verse because they want to grow, collaborate, and create tech for good. Why Work With Us At The Verse, you’ll get: • Impact — Build games and digital therapeutics that help real people. • Creative Range — Work across game design, XR, behavioral science, narrative, data, and more. • Access — Collaborate with neuroscientists, clinicians, technologists, and transformative tech leaders. • Community — Join a distributed team of 50+ innovators, artists, and entrepreneurs. • Growth — We support your development with mentorship, hands-on experience, and strong recommendations. We’re Looking For People Who… Are passionate about gaming for good, prosocial design, XR, wellbeing, art, storytelling, neuroscience, Buddhism, psychedelics, transformative technology, or building a metaverse that actually benefits humanity. If that’s you—we’d love to meet you. To apply, send your resume and a note about what excites you about The Verse. More info: versebuilding.com Contact: bst@versebuilding.com Join us. Let’s build the future of wellbeing—through play. Ben Simon-Thomas - Founder The Verse Contact bst@versebuilding.com for more info and/or with any questions! We are always interested in connecting with the right people TheVerse team is 30+ entrepreneurs, artists, and game developers with experiences and expertise (MAs & PhDs) in gaming, world building, metaverses, build in the open, community development, health & wellbeing. • Ben Simon-Thomas - Founder/CEO. Buddhist-leaning entrepreneur and ecosystem developer. Founded startups in the 3D space (SoundFit: 3D Scanning & ODMS: parts-on-demand), social commerce (GroupGain), worked in health-care startups and life style modification businesses (PMRI). MA in Buddhist psychology, degrees in Religious Philosophy and Language. Apply tot his job

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