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. 2021 Jan 27;9(1):e23088. doi: 10.2196/23088

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©Ross Shegog, Laura Armistead, Christine Markham, Sara Dube, Hsing-Yi Song, Pooja Chaudhary, Angela Spencer, Melissa Peskin, Diane Santa Maria, J Michael Wilkerson, Robert Addy, Susan Tortolero Emery, Jeffery McLaughlin. Originally published in JMIR Serious Games (http://games.jmir.org), 27.01.2021.

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The Secret of Seven Stones (SSS) sample game and parent website screens and personified virtues. (a) Animated video introducing “Suma” and “Frollie” and the challenge scenario that requires resolution, (b) the “Dojo” (and Dojo master, Alfred) where the player receives skill training activities to prepare for “battle,” (c) card battle with wisdom, skill, and support cards to liberate Frollie, and (d) SSS parent website featuring parent resources (videos and tip sheets) to enable parent competency in partner-engage-plan talks, and an array (on right) of personification and imagery of virtues referred to in the game.