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Thank you for the feedback :)

We haven't had too much feedback on how entertaining the game is, so this may be good to have :)

Had you studied any Chinese before playing the game? How far did you make it in the game? Did you make it to the lesson on tones or characters?

Also, did the first lesson open in your browser before you ran around saying "ni hao" to people? That's where at least the initial learning is supposed to take place, so if it didn't, then that would be good to know.

Thanks again; I'm looking forward to hearing back from you :)

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Hello everyone :)

LingWen is a role playing game that is designed to teach people a foreign language but also be fun to play :) Currently the game only teaches Chinese, but, God willing, we'd like to perhaps teach other languages at some point.

We're looking for a pixel artist to do make some animated characters for us :)  We currently have an animated sprite for the main character, but would like it redone, and most of our other characters are stickmen XD

The game is in early alpha and currently only teaches the basics of Chinese, including pronunciation and characters. At its current stage, it's most suitable for people who have never learned any Chinese or are extreme beginners in Chinese.

Please post here or email me at eliblack3@hotmail.com if you're interested :)

If you're interested in trying out the first small release of the game, you can check the game out here :)

Also, if you're just interested in playing the game, then that's great, too :) If you have any feedback for us, please let us know :)

Thanks :)


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Unpaid Work / [Profit Sharing] RPG to Learn Foreign Languages
« on: February 10, 2015, 04:53:12 am »
Hello everyone :)

I posted here before about this project awhile ago. The project is still going, but we could still use some more people :)

The basic idea of the game is to use an RPG to teach people a foreign language. Currently you can try to learn Chinese (Mandarin with traditional characters) by playing.

We've been using free tilesets so far, but mostly stickmen for the characters :) It would be cool to have people to make some sprites or tiles :)

I think we could also use someone to make maps using existing tiles that we have. I'm just not very good at making maps look good and be fun to walk around and things, nor am I great at making puzzles, so if anyone would like to help with those things, it would be appreciated :)

We don't really have a timeline for this project, and we're all basically just working on it for fun, with the possibility of profit sharing in the future.

Please check out our website for concept art and things :)

If you have any interest in testing the game or helping out in some other aspect, then that could be cool, too :)


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Hello again everyone :)

This project is still alive, and development is now underway. ZaoMonichi has joined our team, but we could still use a couple of more people, both for making sprites or tiles and for making maps that use those sprites and tiles :)

We could also still use some people with just general ideas for the game, or people who want to play-test it, or pretty much whatever, so please post if you're interested :)

We have a blog up at http://lingwen.wyrmmage.com about the progress on the game. As you can see, it's not much at the moment, but we're working on it :)

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Hello everyone :)

Just to start out, no, you wouldn't need to know Chinese in order to work on this game :)

I've had an idea for a game that I'd like to try to make, and I thought I'd post to see if I could recruit some people that were of like minds :)  I've attempted this project once with a group of friends, but unfortunately we all went our separate ways fairly quickly and barely made any progress on the game. Therefore, I'm starting from scratch again, as our original world concept was still heavily under development and I think we'll all have more fun if we get to design the world (and game) together :)

So, here's the idea:

I'd like to try to make a game that's designed to teach people a foreign language. Now, I know, most learning games are pretty boring, but I'd like this one to be an exception :)  The idea is to have a game that's as totally immersive in the language as possible. I don't think there's really any way to avoid giving players vocabulary sheets, so players would be given a list with a few vocabulary words on it and then sent off to do some quests that only made use of those words. Once the quests were completed, they'd be handed a new vocabulary list and given a new set of quests. As time went on, their vocabulary would grow and they'd eventually be able to read the language somewhat. Part of the idea is that the game would need to be interesting enough that people would want to play it even if they weren't learning a second language, as this would provide additional incentive to keep learning the language. To that end, I think it would be nice to have an English version of the game so that people who weren't interested in learning the language would still be able to play it if they wanted to.

Personally, I'm interested in Chinese, so that's the language that I'd pick. I know enough Chinese that I can sort of get around, but I'm far from fluent, so it would help to, at least eventually, have someone else on the team that's more fluent in Chinese. However, if people are interested in another language, we could do that language instead. Alternatively, we could do several languages, although of course that would make things more difficult :)

I'm a programmer, so hopefully I should be able to handle most of our programming needs, although I'd be happy to have someone else along to help out if they'd like to. I'm looking at using RPG maker for the game, but I'm not sure on that yet. Technically speaking, we wouldn't even have to do an RPG if people decided that another format would work better, but I think an RPG would lend itself well to this sort of thing :)

So, here's who we need:
  • Game designers: We'll need people to design the world, the storyline, overarching themes for quests, etc.  We'd be starting completely from scratch, so you'd have a blank slate to build something interesting on :)
    Writers: I think this position should be fun, as you'll need to be able to come up with interesting dialog using only a very limited vocabulary, at least for the initial quests :) Given that we'll have other people doing translations, you would just need to know English, although if you know another language, too, that's awesome :)
  • Artists: We'll need pixel artists, for the tiles and characters and things, but probably also an artist or two for doing non-pixel-art faces and things like that. If we do end up using RPG maker, there are lots of tilesets that we might be able to use, although the licensing on a lot of them is kind of fuzzy, or doesn't allow for commercial use, which would limit our options. Having some concept artists would be cool, too :)
  • People who know a foreign language! It would be great to have one or two people who know a foreign language so that we have multiple people to check translations and bounce ideas for vocabulary lists off of :)
  • Programmers: As I mentioned, I'm a programmer, and if we go with RPG Maker, we might not need to do a ton of programming, which I'm hoping would speed things up, but if you'd like to be on the team, I'd be happy to have some other people to help me out :)  In fact, if you want the programming all to yourself, I have a feeling I might have my hands full coordinating things, so that would be fine with me, too XD
  • Other people: If you'd like to be part of the project, we'd love to have you! Let us know if you'd like to help in any other capacity that's not listed above. It'd be nice to have feedback from people who want to learn a foreign language, both when designing the game and during development :)
I'd like the game to be commercial, as I think it will take quite a bit of effort to develop. I'm not sure how much of a market there is for something like this, but I think that there are lots of people who want to learn a foreign language, and a lot of them are gamers, so perhaps there will be a decent amount :)  As for pay, it would be profit sharing, as noted in the title.

So far we have on our team a game designer, a concept artist, someone who speaks Portuguese, and someone who speaks some Chinese and is a programmer (that's me) :)  We also probably have a musician, which is the only position that are we currently not recruiting for.

If you're interested, please reply :)  I hope to hear from some people soon, as I'm really excited about this project, and I'm hoping other people will be, too :)

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