Arti Languages
Overview
The Magic of Language Learning…
Language Learning is one of the great aspirations of life, forever associated with adventure, intellect and sophistication…
However the current generation of apps have poor pedagocial outcomes. Arti Languages set out to understand why and how app learning outcomes could be improved.
The fertile ground seemed to be at the interection of meaninful video games and new cognitive technology.
The followinng article describes the development process of a new linguistic app built in Unity3d.
My contribution
Gameplay Programmer Level Designer UI & UX Optimization & QA
The team
Team of 2 Developers. 2 Academic Advisors.
Year
2022 - 2024
Process
My Work
As a team of 2, we had to find efficient and elegant ways of approaching this complex project. In the following examples, I'll explain my approach to different aspects of the project.
Gameplay Loop For World Exploration
We knew from the earliest greyboxing that each level would be based on grid-like 'cubic rooms', which a player would navigate by clicking/touching, the below devlog describes how I structured the code to build this simple behavior, aswell as how we built more complex behavior on this foundation.
Sequencing System for Lessons and Tutorials
As an educational app, having a system in place to build out interactive lessons and tutorials quickly was important to us. The below devlog describes how we extended the dialogue system Fungus into a custom sequencing tool to achieve this.
Sequencing System for Lessons and Tutorials
Our small team of 2 developers had to find a way around our terrible art skills! We took a 'make do and mend' attitude, using Asset Store packages as our basic building blocks and remixing them into something new.
