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@Theraot thanks for the comments on the pitch!

I'm going to sleep now. Thank you once again!

@Theraot sent.

@Theraot just let me know your thoughts on it :D

@Theraot got it. Thanks. Sending it now

I'd rather the pitch not be public

@Theraot do you have an e-mail I can send it to?

@Theraot I have a pitch for teachers if you'd like to see it

I believe this method will improve the way people learn as much as one can believe in something. As you are a learner of multiple languages, I thought you may like to work on something that can really change the way people learn.

@Theraot I appreciate your honesty.

But, starting with this question (if all those other questions are answered): is this something you'd be interested in?

Of course.

I wish we could work on this together

@Theraot Oh man, you're really helpful with your organization

First is get a clear goal of what teachers will need. What I'm getting stuck on is: I'm afraid students will just play through the game (as one should) and skip ahead and the game won't be in line with the teacher's curriculum

@Theraot so I'm confused on priority of events.

@Theraot so the next step is to get a full picture of what exactly a teacher would need

but do not have the full picture

@Theraot I talked with them roughly

rough estimate

    - Game designer: $70k / yr
    - Game developer: $80k / yr
    - Language teacher: $50k / yr
    - Me: $80k / yr
    - Total: $280k
    - Monthly: $23k monthly burn

Both fully work on this and hire

@Theraot So, after some more consideration of what I need to accomplish... I think I really need funding now

@Theraot 1:30AM here. Going to sleep. Would love to keep discussing this with you. I work on this game every day

@Theraot I'm playing Ocarina of Time now and Chrono Trigger for some more ideas

I think reversing modules that already exist is a great way to double the amount of content

that could be great

the rewards could be in game, which could be somehow connected to a teacher's actual physical reward

@Theraot I can totally see having a Mario World-esque screen where they can go back and play certain quests/levels again

this is really great!

wow this is great

@Theraot these quest design videos from EC are great!

okay

The idea is to more or less have a RPG with language seamlessly tied in as simply a tool to complete normal/everyday RPG quests

do you know what I mean?

@Theraot the issue with rap battles and tasks/activities that use the language overtly in the activity is that it makes the fact that it's a learning game too overt

that looks neat

or to defeat a minion requires the right combination of attacks

where a minion will have weakness of "fire" (fuego), so you need to equip fuego to defeat it

enemy battling will be Rock Paper Scissors

and battle enemies

stuff like that will be common modules

And to build the game quickly, I'll basically be reusing common modules to teach: puzzles, search and rescue, build this thing, navigate to x, order food from y, and converse with NPC

yes, Myst does this quite well

Playtesting i guess will tell

But are these things "fun"? Who knows

then putting the objects together to build a thing requires construction of meaningful phrases, such as "put x on y to make z work" (obviously, this would be in the target language)

Because building things forces you to know object vocab

A cross between Minecraft and Scribblenauts

Another thought I had was Building Items