EconoTales — The Digital Pathway
EconoTales provides EconAbility’s existing digital foundation: story-driven choices where scarcity, trade-offs, uncertainty and consequences become visible.
The digital mechanics already exist. EconAbility is adapting them for a new purpose: accessible everyday decision-making with neurodivergent people and families.
Stories become decisions. Decisions reveal what matters.
EconoTales is Helen’s existing digital simulation format, using familiar stories and interactive choices to make scarcity, trade-offs, risk and consequences visible.
For EconAbility, EconoTales is being adapted from an education-oriented game concept into an accessibility-led decision-simulation format. The existing product demonstrates technical delivery and interactive decision mechanics; the new work tests how those mechanics can support inclusion and participation.
From story to reflection
Every scenario follows a simple decision-making journey.
- Story: Start with a familiar everyday situation.
- Choice: Consider the available options and decide what matters.
- Consequence: See how different choices can affect money, time, access, support and wellbeing.
- Reflection: Look back at what was considered and why a pathway was chosen.
Built around real decisions
EconoTales keeps the interaction simple while making complex ideas visible.
- Story-driven decisions
- Scarcity and trade-offs
- Risk and uncertainty
- Visible consequences
- Simple, large-button interaction
The aim is not to find a single correct answer. It is to make different pathways, constraints and consequences easier to understand and discuss.
Where it stands
Existing
Digital story → choice → consequence mechanics.
In development
Clear text, visuals, audio options, low-sensory interaction and supported choice.
Planned
Whether these adaptations improve understanding, voice and participation.
Watson, Australia
Gameplus, Technology park 49 Phillip Ave Watson, ACT, 2602
Phone:
+61 4 5179 5179
Email:
hello@econtech.org
and shape it with us
Help us build a more accessible way to navigate economic choices. We are looking for people and organisations with lived experience or expertise to help shape, challenge and test EconAbility.