For Fraternity & Sorority Headquarters

Train chapter advisors on the year before they live it.

Chapter Advisor Games builds custom training simulations for national organizations, their foundations, and housing corporations. Your alumni volunteers play a full season of chapter life — the crises, the contracts, the 2 a.m. judgment calls — and meet the real one already fluent.

An initiative of Brand New Colors, the hyper-niche game studio

The Year Arrives Either Way

Most advisors get a manual, a webinar, and their own college memories. Then October comes.

Volunteer advisors hold the line between a chapter's worst week and the organization's name. The role demands trained judgment, and judgment grows through repetition — the one thing a document can never provide.

The first move decides the rest

A crisis gives an advisor one opening move, and its quality shapes everything after. Sequencing under pressure is a learnable skill that almost nobody gets to practice.

Page four, clause seven

An auto-renewal buried in a vendor contract. Indemnification quietly shifted onto undergraduates. One unread paragraph outspends a semester of programming.

Seventy-two hours, three conversations

An anonymous report arrives, and a volunteer decides whom to talk to before other people decide what it means. Handled well, the chapter rewrites its own culture and self-reports from strength.

Freely given evenings

These people volunteer their time. Preparation equal to what the role asks of them can be built in weeks, for less than one in-person academy costs to stage.

Proof, In Twenty Seconds

We build these for a living. Play a piece of one right now.

We have watched capable volunteers freeze in week one for lack of a single rehearsal. So instead of a brochure, here is the engine itself — one crisis from Good Standing, our free demo game.

October · Gamma Xi Chapter

The photo from Saturday night

By Monday morning a photo is everywhere: fourteen members on the chapter house roof at an unregistered party, drinks in hand — the same week the university announced a full review of Greek life. Two reporters have already emailed the chapter president for comment.

Choose the tone

Each tone plays out differently, and the game explains its own reasoning — that written debrief is the training. See the full game, system by system, or play the whole season free.

Eight communities, each in its own voice.

An NPHC-style intake never once says “rush.” A dry house plans legendary alternatives. The demo proves the engine can speak a community’s actual language — which is exactly what your custom build will do with yours. Tap a card to see that world’s season.

Underneath it all, six competencies your advisors actually need.

crisis tone & sequencing
fact-finding under time pressure
contract literacy
event safety planning
recruitment & intake ethics
member care & connection

Strong outcomes explain their own reasoning in writing, so a facilitator inherits a room that has already argued with itself productively.

The Plan

Demo to academy in three steps.

1

Play the demo properly

You met one crisis above; the free demo holds a whole season. Twenty minutes tells you whether this rehearses the judgment you want your advisors to carry — send it to your chapter services team and let the game make its own argument.

free · in the browser
2

Map your year

Ninety minutes with your training and standards leads. Together we choose the two crises, the inquiry, the contracts, and the vocabulary that make a training game unmistakably yours — then you receive a written scope with a firm price.

$750 concept session · credited toward the build
3

Prove it, then build only what you need

A Fidelity Build in three weeks renders one of your crises in your own world, so your team can judge the fit for $4,500. From there, take the single-scenario module or the Complete Game — and stop at whichever rung is enough.

$4,500 fidelity build · every rung credits toward the next
The Offer

One season, entered in the ledger.

For less than most organizations spend staging a single advisor academy, every volunteer you will ever onboard gets the season below. Everything listed is included; the right-hand column shows what each piece costs when bought the ordinary way.

The Complete Game

the full season · rung three of three
The engine, re-authored in your organization’s voiceA full academic year of play carrying your terminology in every line of copy, your council’s rules, and your policies as constraints an advisor has to work inside.
from scratch: $32,000+
Your hardest weeks, built to be practicedThe situations that actually reached your office, anonymized with your standards team, each closing with written reasoning a facilitator can teach from.
sim-grade courseware: $30,000+ per finished hour
The judgment calls advisors keep getting wrongFact-finding against the allegation that would frighten you most, the contract traps that have already cost your chapters money, and the everyday decisions that make the year recognizably yours. The exact mix is set with you in the Concept Session.
included in build
Two playtest rounds with real advisorsYour volunteers touch the build twice while it is still soft enough to change.
included in build
The Facilitator's GuidePer-scenario debrief questions and session structure, so any staff member can run the room.
bonus · $1,500 value
The Academy Pilot KitA session runbook and a before-and-after feedback instrument for your first cohort.
bonus · $900 value
Three months of careHosting, updates, and small changes handled while your first cohorts play.
bonus · $900 value
The Complete Game
$24,500
Eight weeks. One flat fee covering every advisor you will ever onboard, with earlier rungs credited in full. Payment terms and the two smaller rungs →

Stop whenever it is enough

Each rung ends in a decision rather than a commitment. Stop after any one of them owing nothing further, so your total exposure before playing a build of your own world stays at $4,500.

If the pilot underwhelms, we rebuild it

We agree on the rating instrument before your cohort plays. Should their median score land below the training this replaces, we rebuild the two lowest-rated scenarios and run the pilot again at no charge. A refund would hand you money back and leave the weak scenarios exactly as they were.

Both promises appear verbatim in every statement of work.

Two season builds per semester, scheduled against academy calendars. Winter academies book by early fall.

The first three builds ship at a Founding Cohort price of $19,500 in exchange for a named case study. Smaller rungs exist too — a $4,500 fidelity build to judge the fit, a $9,500 module when one academy session is the whole need. See all three rungs compared →

Scope, In Writing

What arrives, and what deliberately never will.

Delivered with every season

A browser-based academic year for desktop and mobile, deployed to a shareable link with progress saving. Scope is fixed in writing at the Concept Session and sized to your risk profile, so a large program and a small one each get a year that fits. Two playtest rounds with your real advisors and two revision rounds. The Facilitator's Guide, the Academy Pilot Kit, thirty days of bug fixes, three months of hosting and care, and a perpetual organization-wide license for internal training use. Fidelity builds carry an internal-review license only, since a single scenario is a proof rather than a training asset. Built under NDA, with anonymization workshopped alongside your standards team.

Excluded on principle

Ritual and esoteric content stays out of every build, permanently, whatever the request. The simulation trains judgment and complements your policies — legal and compliance guidance remain your counsel's work, and scenario language ships to you for their review. Individual advisors are never tracked; the feedback instrument is anonymous by design.

Outside this scope

Native mobile apps, multiplayer, and leaderboards live beyond this scope. Content freezes at week six so the build actually ships, and one organization's world fits in one game — sister councils and affiliates get their own.

Quoted separately

SCORM packaging for your LMS, full IP assignment, additional language versions, rush timelines, and extra revision rounds are all available as priced add-ons — named here so your board hears it from us first.

What May Looks Like

An advisor who has already handled the photo from Saturday night.

When the real October arrives, your volunteer has met its shape before — chose the tone, sequenced the first moves, stood with the right partners, and read the reasoning for why it worked. The alternative is a first attempt, performed live, on your organization's name.

Rehearsal is what every high-stakes profession gives its people. Your advisors have earned the same.