Thank you for this Vance! 🥰 As you know, we had A LOT of fun playing Language Spy on stream and training our Spanish skills!!I wrote little recaps for our our blog, and I'll just add this here:
Now, this is a special one! We’ve played games by Vance (Stand Off Software) before and we were excited to see his name among the participants of this jam. Language Spy: Covert Contact is a simple language learning game that challenges you to decipher the language of the strange village you’re investigating.
We chose to play the game in Spanish and – while we’re sorry for butchering the Spanish language as we did – We had so much fun with it! Honestly, this game alone makes it worthwhile to watch the VOD of our second #AdvXJam2021 stream! 😄
I think this is a really good idea. Making games about the theme you want to teach/learn about can probably bolster your vocabulary pretty good. Another thing that drills it into the brain is repetition. Pedro's Adventures in Spanish solved that by having the main character needing food and drink regularly, repeating the words for eating, drinking, plus the names of consumables. I don't know if that's really possible with shorties like this one, but if one made a game about, say, a mechanic, he could probably make repairs using and reusing different tools which the player would then eventually know what were called.
This game is fun to play. I don't know if I would have made it with my low level Spanish, though...but with intermediate German it was fairly easy.
Slight spoiler: In my mind, all the neighbouring cities are the same, sending spies to one another...so if I choose Finnish, I simply play one of the other cities. :-)
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great idea
great execution too
Thank you for this Vance! 🥰 As you know, we had A LOT of fun playing Language Spy on stream and training our Spanish skills!!I wrote little recaps for our our blog, and I'll just add this here:
Now, this is a special one! We’ve played games by Vance (Stand Off Software) before and we were excited to see his name among the participants of this jam. Language Spy: Covert Contact is a simple language learning game that challenges you to decipher the language of the strange village you’re investigating.
We chose to play the game in Spanish and – while we’re sorry for butchering the Spanish language as we did – We had so much fun with it! Honestly, this game alone makes it worthwhile to watch the VOD of our second #AdvXJam2021 stream! 😄
Thanks! Was fun to be at the stream.
I think this is a really good idea. Making games about the theme you want to teach/learn about can probably bolster your vocabulary pretty good. Another thing that drills it into the brain is repetition. Pedro's Adventures in Spanish solved that by having the main character needing food and drink regularly, repeating the words for eating, drinking, plus the names of consumables. I don't know if that's really possible with shorties like this one, but if one made a game about, say, a mechanic, he could probably make repairs using and reusing different tools which the player would then eventually know what were called.
This game is fun to play. I don't know if I would have made it with my low level Spanish, though...but with intermediate German it was fairly easy.
Slight spoiler: In my mind, all the neighbouring cities are the same, sending spies to one another...so if I choose Finnish, I simply play one of the other cities. :-)