⚗️ Rɘvɘrsɘ Chɘmistry
🎮 Press Start for Recovery
We are Reverse Chemistry, a game studio on a mission to beat addiction. Our hypothesis: video games are an effective vehicle for addiction recovery.We integrate evidence-based therapy techniques, reinforce them with gamification, and package them into fun videos games for anyone, any time, anywhere.
Surf Your Addiction Away
🏄 Urge Surfer
You didn't wake up one day and decide to be addicted, and you certainly didn't imagine you could fix that by surfing. So when COACH hands you a surfboard you, naturally, have doubts.But through the magical concoction of pixels, mindfulness, and therapy, you will beat that bad habit — one urge at a time.Surf's up!
🥼 Featuring Recovery Engine™
Recovery Engine™ is our proprietary game engine that features four key addiction recovery components: framework, programming, mindfulness, and personalisation.
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Framework
Addiction is about more than acting out on urges. Taking cues from the DEADs tool from the SMART Recovery program, Recovery Engine™ adopts a comprehensive approach to addiction recovery across the entire urge lifecycle: before, during, and after urges are triggered.
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Programming
At its core, addiction is faulty brain wiring. But unlike certain recovery programs, we do not believe addiction is a lifelong sentence. Neuroplasticity studies demonstrate that the brain can be changed. Recovery Engine™ attempts to reverse addiction by reprogramming the brain, using CBT (Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy), disassociation, and affirmations.
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Mindfulness
Managing urges in the moment boils down to mindfulness. Recovery Engine™ integrates techniques from DBT (Dialectical Behavioural Therapy) and MBRP (Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention) to regulate emotions and figuratively surf urges instead of acting out on them. If addiction manifests in a series of urges, then it can be defeated urge by urge — one urge at a time.
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Personalisation
Recovery Engine™ allows players to customise their individual addictions, triggers, moods, and recovery activities. The engine prepares a custom recovery plan, then delivers personalised coaching for each player, taking into account their configured preferences, gameplay metrics, and other insights.
Coming 2024
🃏 The House Folds
Just because COACH is a good guy, does not mean he was always a good guy. (Zangief from Wreck-It Ralph would understand.)Once upon a time, COACH was addicted to online poker, and it nearly ruined him. Then he went to rehab, beat the addiction, and got his life back. The end.Or is it? Now, COACH is back to help you recover from your own gambling addiction — rehab notwithstanding.Follow COACH as he takes you through five fun game levels that reverse addiction, one urge at a time.Coming in 2024 to a device near you!
Development Services
💻 Training Games
“I can't wait for our next compliance training!”, said no one ever.But what would it take for someone to actually say that?Are you thinking video games? Because we are.Forget boring videos and Death by PowerPoint. You give us the learning materials, we'll give you a snazzy game that your people will adore. And they won't even realise they're learning… until they ace the quiz.How's that for compliance training?
📬 Contact Us
Got questions, comments, or feedback?Send us an email and we'll get back to you ASAP.
© Reverse Chemistry, by Doubleplus (ABN 79 613 321 510). Keep Calm and Game On.
Surf Your Addiction Away
🏄 Urge Surfer
You didn't wake up one day and decide to be addicted, and you certainly didn't imagine you could fix that by surfing. So when COACH hands you a surfboard you, naturally, have doubts.But through the magical concoction of pixels, mindfulness, and therapy, you will beat that bad habit — one urge at a time.Surf's up!
Make a Change
🖤 Donationware
Urge Surfer is donationware.Our vision is to help as many people as possible. We also want to learn and improve our products, in the process.The best way to achieve those goals is by making Urge Surfer 100% free and 100% accessible. For anyone, any time, anywhere.That said, we do have development costs. So if this game has helped you personally, or if you support our mission to beat addiction, or if you just want to do some good today — please donate below.All proceeds will go towards maintenance and R&D for our next game (TBD).