Growing Sideways: Limited Community Builder's Edition
Growing Sideways: Limited Community Builder's Edition
Growing Sideways is a conversation card game for youth and the trusted adults in their lives, including parents, caregivers, mentors, and more. Roll the dice, draw a card, and let real conversation happen naturally. Content is developed to align with National Sex Education Standards for ages 10-13, but families with younger or older youth play and love it too, because the conversation-based format meets you where you are. The game includes 300 prompt cards across 6 categories (Values & Decision-Making, Consent & Boundaries, Bodies & Changes, Healthy Relationships, Real-Life Pressures, and the brand-new Shifts & Turns), custom category dice, and game instructions, all in a simple white box with the Growing Sideways logo while we finalize our final packaging design.
This is a limited Community Builder's Edition release — your purchase directly supports our development, and every box includes a QR code so you can share optional feedback after you play and help shape what this game becomes next.
Growing Sideways: Limited Community Builder's Edition
Real conversations. Stronger connections. A game still growing, just like the families who play it.
Growing Sideways is a conversation card game designed to help youth and the trusted adults in their lives talk about the things that matter most: bodies, boundaries, healthy relationships, real-life pressures, and growing up. Through fun, low-pressure gameplay. No right answers. Just prompts that open doors.
WHAT'S IN THE BOX
300 prompt cards across 6 categories: Values & Decision-Making, Consent & Boundaries, Bodies & Changes, Healthy Relationships, Real-Life Pressures, and Shifts & Turns (a brand-new wildcard category that raises the stakes)
Custom category dice
Game instructions
QR code for our optional post-play feedback survey
Comes in a simple white box with the Growing Sideways logo. We're keeping packaging minimal while we finalize the final design. What's inside is what matters.
WHY THIS VERSION IS SPECIAL
This game was built with real families. Four rounds of playtesting. 111 survey responses. 41 family units across the country. Every piece of feedback shaped what's in this box.
This release includes new additions we haven't fully community-tested yet, including the Shifts & Turns category, the expanded card set, and new dice. They're ready to play, and we want to know how they land. That's where you come in.
YOU'RE NOT JUST BUYING A GAME
Every box includes a QR code for a short, optional post-play survey. A few minutes of your feedback will directly shape the next version of Growing Sideways. Families who complete it will receive a discount code for our online shop as a thank-you.
WHAT PLAYERS HAVE SAID
"We started talking about things we wouldn't normally bring up."
"It got less awkward the more we played."
"It felt more normal to talk about weird things we usually would avoid."
(Quotes reflect common themes across prior playtesting rounds.)
$25 + shipping (estimated $5.99-$12.99 depending on location) | Limited quantity
Every purchase directly supports EyesOpenIowa, a small nonprofit doing big work for youth and families.