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A simple language game

supermikhail · 2018-11-05T16:21:24

You click on objects in the world and get their name and how it's pronounced, in Russian which is my native language. That's pretty much it. Basically I want to be 100% sure that I can accomplish the project. The problem is, as a player, would I want to buy it? I myself am poor and consequently very selective with my entertainment spending. Which means, it'd be too lean an offering for me. On the other hand, I more or less believe that there are... enough "suckers" out there who'd pick up anything with "language learning" in description... To put it plainly. I guess that's the short of it. I don't know if that last intuition of mine is correct. And if it is, I don't actually want to scam people. But I don't want to promise something that I don't know that I'll be able to deliver, like... voice recognition or anything as useful and preposterous. Or even a story. I've never written for games. I've never designed a puzzle. All of which would probably add all the value necessary, but more likely just show me my limits. I suppose you could say "make a prototype". And I know I won't enjoy playing it, simply because, well, Russian is my native language and I like challenge. But I'd enjoy making it, and I like the idea of using videogames for studying languages. Any thoughts to help my conscience, more or less?

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Started by supermikhail October 13, 2018 07:01 PM

11 comments, last by supermikhail 5 years, 7 months ago

random_user2018

November 02, 2018 09:16 PM

If u decide to make the game I would recommend that u make it buy to play with no ads. Also make sure the pronunciation is slow and clear.

supermikhail

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November 05, 2018 04:21 PM

Well, I'm not in such a hurry to make this game now, but Unity's just recommended the Watson SDK (speech-to-text, among many other possibilities), and that's kind of made me excited again. Quite possible I could make something with much more value for minimal effort (in comparison to trying to implement a similar system by myself).

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