GLITCHERS Reshaping Global Health with Games
By turning play into insight, we open a window into the mind, generating the data that fuels deep learning to extend the human healthspan.
Projects
We are GLITCHERS — world leaders in using games to generate behavioural insights and global datasets.
We collaborate cross-industry to improve the human healthspan:
Healthcare
Combining Sea Hero Quest with our data platform, Celest, to deliver a full-stack solution for rapid, repeated, and consistent digital cognitive assessments.
Research
Powering breakthrough research through gaming — an endlessly scalable data driven approach for deeper insights.
Cognition
Expanding our mission through direct public engagement. Enabling clinical trial recruitment, personalised insights, and brain training.
CELEST
Our advanced data platform that transforms gameplay data into meaningful cognitive performance insights against our global benchmark data.
Built for researchers, clinicians, and healthcare professionals seeking precision, remote monitoring and longitudinal cognitive evaluation.
More Projects
Brain Health
- Sea Hero Quest — Data Collection
- Find The Kind — Dementia Awareness
- Enhance — Risk Factor Management
Environment
- EcoKnows — Ecological Simulation
- Restore — Decision Making
- Forest Guardians — Awareness
Finance
- Nestlings — Financial literacy
- Nestlums — Financial literacy
Research
- Sea Hero Quest — Research Platform
- ARUK — Data Workbench
- AbbVie — Fear of Finding Out
Awards
A sub-sample of the 75+ awards we've won since 2013.
9 x Cannes Lions
BAFTA Nominated
Webby Winner
3 x D&AD Pencils
2 x One Awards
Front Page
news articles
Timeline
Studio formed in September following Max's brother's mental health crisis, inspiring our mission to use games for good - although at this point, it wasn't exactly clear how we'd do it.
We release Gumulon for Stride Gum
Fish & chip shop simulator launched on app stores.
We start exploring collaborations with neuroscientists through Wellcome Trust event at the Sanger Institute
Expanded the core team and refined our 'Games for Good' philosophy.
Launched our innovative arcade game showcasing technical excellence. We won the Big Indie Pitch for this game in San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference.
Our first large scale neuroscience collaboration begins. Sea Hero Quest is a spatial navigation game on mobile in collaboration initiated by Deutsche Telekom.
Published Sea Hero Quest as GLITCHERS powered by Deutsche Telekom. We didn't realise at the time, but this kick starts a reseearch revolution.
Our first year goal of 100,000 players was smashed just 10 hours after launch.
Virtual Reality version of Sea Hero Quest launched, advancing data fidelity and player immersion.
At least 1% of all Gear VR owners in the world download Sea Hero Quest.
The first research paper about Sea Hero Quest was published: Global determinants of navigation ability.
Won multiple awards for Sea Hero Quest including a BAFTA nomination in the Games Beyond Entertainment category.
Began collaboration on "Crush your fofo" — understanding Fear of Finding Out in healthcare.
Sea Hero Quest shown as promising tool for personalised cognitive diagnostics of at-genetic-risk Alzheimer's disease.
We released a version of Sea Hero Quest for Researchers in conjunction with Alzheimer's Research UK to facilitate easier data collection for decentralised research studies looking at spatial navigation.
Sea Hero Quest has been played in 195 countries, generating the world's largest and most diverse behavioural dataset in scientific history.
At the 10 year anniversary of Glitchers, we refocused on a clearer mission: Games for Good.
In collaboration with UCL and NIHR, we built a suite of tools to engage people in their dementia risk factors
Reached milestone of 75+ international awards for our games and research impact.
Sea Hero Quest went viral in South Korea with over 1.2 million views, adding a huge wave of new people to our waitlist.
We're incredibly proud to share that GLITCHERS Lab has been awarded Scottish EDGE, one of the UK's most prestigious competitions for high-growth startups!
When we launched Sea Hero Quest, scientists had no idea what healthy navigation performance looked like. It was so important to understand, because it's one of the first things to decline in Alzheimer's dementia.
Contact
We're building the tools to help people live longer, healthier lives.
If you're working in longevity, cognitive neuroscience, or digital health, we'd love to connect.
We're actively seeking commercial partnerships with those shaping the future of preventative health and early intervention.
Contact Information
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GLITCHERS LTD
16/3 TIMBER BUSH
EDINBURGH
SCOTLAND
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