The notion that online gaming could help players develop charitable habits seemed bold when the anti-poverty nonprofit Comic Relief US tested its own multiverse on the popular world-building app Roblox last year.

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Roblox, a world-building video game, has about 40 million players under age 13 – or more than a third of its user base.