Hi, I’m Shannon.
I’m Shannon Potts, a parent and longtime gamer. I’ve spent most of my working life in tech, across marketing, product, sales, and support. That background shapes what I look for when I open a game.
I grew up inside this world. I was the kid on the screens, in the games, and in the chats. The guide that would have helped my parents understand what they were looking at did not exist. This is my attempt at building it now.
What I pay attention to
I look at the defaults: what ships turned on, what’s easy to enable and hard to turn off, and what a kid can quietly change later. There’s often a gap between what a platform says it offers parents and what a parent can realistically keep configured in a busy week.
I use the thing first and try to tell the difference between what’s annoying, what’s manipulative, and what adults may be reading into it. When a product changes underneath a piece, I come back and revise. Where my read is still shaky, I want that to be clear too.
Making room for different families
There is no single correct screen policy. A game that fits one ten-year-old may be a bad fit for a different thirteen-year-old. The aim is to give you better information for your own decision, whether you’re a parent or guardian, a gamer or someone opening the settings for the first time.
I’m not a clinician, a teacher, or an internet safety authority. When a topic needs that kind of expertise, I’ll say so and point you somewhere better.
Nobody pays for a verdict here. If a page ever earns something from a link, it says so on that page.