Altruistic Apps SideQuests
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Still priced for people.
Not corporations.

Most of what we build is completely free. But a business training platform and a platform video game aren't mobile apps — they carry real development, hosting, and distribution costs. So we charge. Just not much. And never more than we have to.

What's a SideQuest?

Altruistic Apps was built on a simple mission: free software that helps people. No fees. No ads. No subscriptions. No data sold. That mission holds for everything in our main lineup.

SideQuests are a small, intentional exception. They're products that go beyond a standard mobile or web app — a white-label employee training platform for small businesses, and a historically-grounded open-world video game. Both carry real costs to build, maintain, and distribute that can't be absorbed by good intentions alone.

So SideQuests charge. But they charge the way we think software should be priced: significantly less than every comparable option on the market, with no hidden fees, no per-user traps, and no surprise invoices at renewal. The mission is still the same. Small businesses deserve software that helps their employees grow without breaking the budget. Gamers deserve great experiences without a $70 price tag.

Train your people.
Not your accountant.

Your Training App is a white-label video training platform built for small businesses and educational programs. It takes the same technology powering WeatherTV — curated video content, structured playlists, built-in analytics — and turns it into a complete employee training and onboarding system. With quiz verification, completion tracking, and manager dashboards, all without the enterprise price tag that makes most small businesses give up and just hand people a binder.

As an Altruistic Apps SideQuest, it carries a low flat monthly rate — not per-user pricing. Add 10 employees or 500. The bill doesn't change. Because software shouldn't punish you for growing your team.

💰 Save up to $97,000/yr vs. enterprise LMS
⚡ Deploy in days, not months
No per-user pricing. Ever.
Feature
❌ Traditional LMS
✅ Your Training App
Pricing model
$8–$51 per user/month
Low flat rate, unlimited users
Setup cost
$5,000–$50,000+
$0 — launch in days
Video hosting
Upload fees + storage costs
YouTube-powered, $0
Analytics + quizzes
Premium add-on
Built in, always included
SSO / OAuth login
Enterprise tier only
Included

Named after Priest Willis — who believed that the more everybody knew, the stronger the team was. He mentored freely, shared openly, and never hoarded knowledge for job security. Your Training App is built in that spirit: helping every employee on every team grow, without making it something only funded companies can afford.

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In Development · Video Game
Always Fear the Dark
A Historical Open-World Narrative Game
Windows PC
Steam
Xbox

A freed family's journey.
A continent's worth of history.

Always Fear the Dark follows a freed Black family as they journey from South Carolina to the Wisconsin Territory between 1789 and 1792. It is a game built on more than twelve years of research — what began as a feature screenplay called The Wolves has evolved into one of the most historically rigorous open-world games ever attempted.

The time period is not a backdrop. It is the entire point. The years following the American Revolution were among the most turbulent and consequential in American history — a nation inventing itself, a frontier being contested, and a family navigating all of it with nothing but their freedom, their wits, and each other.

If you want to understand what this game feels like to play: imagine The Oregon Trail and Red Dead Redemption 2 merged into one experience — the weight of every decision, the permanence of consequence, the humbling reality that survival is never guaranteed, inside a vast open world where every acre of landscape has a history and you are living inside it.

The accuracy is not an aesthetic choice. Everything in this game — the language, the tools, the roads, the dangers, the terrain, the people, the politics — is sourced and verified. The communities whose histories this game represents will have a voice in how their stories are told.

💡 Pricing philosophy: This game will be a small fraction of what comparable titles cost on Steam or Xbox. We're charging to cover development and distribution — not to maximize the first week's revenue. A great game shouldn't require a $70 buy-in.
Time Period
1789–1792 — The American frontier, immediately following the Revolution
Story
A freed Black family travels from South Carolina to the Wisconsin Territory — navigating a young nation still deciding who belongs in it
Research
12+ years of historical research — originated as a feature screenplay; now being designed as an open-world game
Gameplay Feel
The consequence and survival weight of The Oregon Trail merged with the open-world depth of Red Dead Redemption 2
Platforms
Windows PC, Steam, and Xbox
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