For parents
Alice's Fashion House is a design game for kids aged about 9 and up, made by Magnetic Labs. Here's exactly what it does with your child's play, so you can check rather than take our word for it.
What's stored, and where
Right now, nothing is sent to us. Saved designs live in your browser's local storage on this device. You can check: open your browser's developer tools, play a round, and watch the Network tab. Saving a design makes no request.
That also means designs don't follow your child to another device, and clearing the browser's site data deletes them.
What kids can't do
- Chat or message anyone. There's nowhere to type.
- Upload photos or drawings. Designs are built only from pieces we drew.
- See or spend money. There are no prices, ads or in-game purchases.
- Be ranked against other kids. There are no leaderboards or like counts.
How designs are scored
Each brief is a client with a real need: staying dry at camp, keeping cool at sports day, dancing at a party. The wear test checks warmth, rain protection, how easy the outfit is to move in, how smart it is, sun cover and the fabric budget. It also rewards mixing colours and patterns. It never scores how the model looks, and every body shape, skin tone and model option scores the same.
Reusing an outfit from the portfolio costs no fabric, and the game counts how many times each outfit has been worn. We want kids to learn that good clothes get worn again, not replaced.
What's coming
Later, a parent will be able to create a Magnetic Labs account to save designs across devices and set up profiles for more than one child. Only the parent will have an account. A child's profile will hold a nickname picked from word lists and their designs, with no email, real name, birthday or photo. An optional family pass will be for parents to buy. We'll update this page and the privacy policy before any of that goes live.
What it doesn't do well yet
This is an early version. There are five briefs, a limited set of pieces, and the drawings are simple. The scoring rules are easy to work out once you've played a few rounds.