Six tiny games · One overqualified corgi
Serious subjects. Unserious corgi.
Some subjects only get read when something's already gone wrong — the benefits booklet, the food-safety page, the “is this text a scam?” search at midnight. The Barkley Academy teaches them before that, in ten-minute games hosted by a corgi who has never met a concept he couldn't pun through. Pick a school. Earn a ridiculous diploma. Accidentally learn something load-bearing.
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The course catalogue
Six subjects. Six mechanical metaphors. One increasingly decorated dean.
Food safety · Episode 1
Chef Barkley (toque, tiny) teaches the kitchen truths every household runs on: why 4–60°C is bacteria's favourite weather, how long the chicken actually keeps, why you must never wash it, and what to do about the pizza that slept on the counter.
Scam spotting · Case file 1
Detective Barkley hands you real-looking fake emails, texts and login pages — and you tap the red flags hiding in them. Learn the gift-card iron law, why your 2FA code is a house key, and the ten-second habit that beats scams that haven't been invented yet.
Emergency prep · Expedition 1
Ranger Barkley (hard hat: regulation) installs the three things every shaky-coastline household needs: the Drop-Cover-Hold-On reflex — drilled while your screen shakes — a grab-and-go bag you pack yourself (beware the lasagna), and a family plan that fits on a card.
Insurance literacy · The original
Where it all began: Professor Barkley, Chief Fetchuary, turns deductibles and sliding coinsurance into a year of adorable vet claims — with animated Explanation-of-Bonefits receipts and a coverage meter where the paw literally slides. The December-vs-January finale changes how people book appointments.
Insurance literacy · The sequel
The most misunderstood dial in benefits — Reasonable & Customary limits — via a boutique that charges 🦴500 for a 🦴320 knee brace. Watch every bone of a bill split into excess, deductible, your share, and reimbursement. Contains the series' first shopping-strategy finale.
Insurance literacy · The finale
The trilogy's boss level: how the provincial drug layer, Special Authority, and your extended plan stack into one bill — taught through a diabetic pug's new sensor and a 🦴36,000-a-year biologic that ends up costing a family 🦴180 a month. The stack is real, and it's spectacular.
Meet the dean
Claude Barkley — B.A. (Barkelor of Bonefits), D.B. ×3, C.K.G., Lead Scent-Hound, Expedition Lead, and a very good boy — is a corgi with round glasses, a navy bow tie, and an unexplainable talent for getting promoted. He has served as Chief Fetchuary at Pawcific Benefits, run the Fair Fetch Price Desk, navigated the pharmacy stack, earned a chef's toque, solved the Something Phishy case in a tweed deerstalker, and led a 72-hour expedition in a regulation hard hat.
His teaching method is consistent across all fields: one concept at a time, a treat when you get it, a hint when you don't, and receipts for everything. He believes urgency is the enemy, labels are love, and no question is embarrassing if you ask it while patting a dog.
The pets he teaches — the chaotically uninsurable Whisker-Waggins household — are fictional. The concepts are not.
One dog. Six promotions. Zero salary negotiations.
How these were made
Every game is a single self-contained HTML file — no frameworks, no build step, no network calls — designed and written as a collaboration between a human learning designer and an AI co-author. Each one follows the same production bar: concepts verified against current public guidance before a single question was written, all math and answer keys unit-tested, and every build played end-to-end by an automated browser before shipping. The jokes are hand-fed. The corgi is load-bearing.
The tiny print, wearing a bow tie
The Barkley Academy is an educational demo. The insurance games use fictional plans; the food-safety, scam and preparedness games are modeled on publicly available Canadian guidance (Health Canada, HealthLinkBC, Get Cyber Safe, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, PreparedBC, the Great BC ShakeOut — as of mid-2026). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or speaking for any government, agency, insurer, or employer, and it is not advice. Official pages are always the source of truth — each game's 🌐 Source Shelf points to them. No real bones were spent.