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[soc_puppet]

...Fuck me, someone on Tumblr saw my language learning game proposal and messaged me with their skillset to see if they could get involved.

I'm not a project leader! I suck at managing things! I cannot deny that it's cool that people want to be involved to the point of listing their relevant skills, but having a cool idea does not automatically a leader make!

*pant pant pant*

Okay. Okay, I think I'm somewhat calmer now.

Maybe I should just start a Discord server for this. Call it Language Town or something. Let the three people who have offered their coding expertise rock-paper-scissors over what platform(s) to release on.

...Dear sweet mercy, I have no idea what I'm doing.

Edit: Smallest possible game version: Your Aunt Minerva(?) has decided that she wants to spend the rest of her life traveling, and asked if you want her house. On the one hand, free house! Who's turning that down in this economy? On the other hand, Aunt Minerva's house is in the remote Language Town, where only a few people speak the same language as you. Everyone else speaks [other language]. You're free to move in and decorate the house as you see fit, and your aunt also left you with a reasonable chunk of change she got from selling most of her worldly possessions, but you still need to understand the language in order to get by. Thus begins your new life in Language Town.

Smallest possible game version includes furnishings and clothing stores with rotating stock, the mayor or whoever who can help translate things for you, basic items in the house with basic interactive functions, and maybe a way to earn a bit of money. Selling flowers, maybe?

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[alexseanchai]

I want to look up ancient Roman opinions on naming children after Gods (the ancient Greek opinion was "don't", directly, but indirectly like 'Apollodoros' was common) before saying I like this character name

I am possibly the only one who might care

and because HP, I am now wondering if Aunt Minnie's flower shop is also the town apothecary slash supplier of ingredients to a local witch

(but since apparently the correct order to teach living languages is immediately useful vocab first, idk how such a plot might advance the goals here; of course that's not how Duolingo, but I have even less idea how this premise would teach grammar)

[soc_puppet]

Honestly, changing the name is not a huge deal for me. It was the first thing I came up with in the spur-of-the-moment that sounded relatively name-like and not like a complete concession, but considering I've already nicknamed the game Language Town? I may as well call her Aunt Lingua! (After some more thought, Witney might also work, as would changing her to Uncle Wordsworth.)

I hadn't thought of it as an actual flower shop, but that definitely has potential. I may adopt that now.

[alexseanchai]

Aunt Whitney Wordsworth?

want more writing team? 🙂

[soc_puppet]

That has definite promise! I kinda wanna keep the 'h' out of there, just to emphasize the wit part even harder. Which makes it an atypical spelling, but Pokémon did it first, so there! (Not with the name Whitney in particular, but with at least a few names prior to Gen VI, I'm sure.)

You know what? Sure! Welcome aboard!