Captain Vocab - MMO Spanish Vocab em up! by dcolgan

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made by dcolgan for LD32 (JAM)
A freak storm has stranded your pirate ship on an island overrun by scary monsters!

Fortunately, friendly grog-swilling pirates have erected cities as safe harbor against the monsters. Their scientists have discovered that the monsters only speak Spanish and they become magically hurt when you counter their words with English translations.

Fight your way across the island, learning Spanish along the way!

Defeat 10 monsters to advance to the next level. The pirates in the next city over will not let you in until you are strong enough!

Made in 72 hours by @denaje and @davidscolgan with lots of Coffeescript and some PHP for good measure.

Ratings

Coolness 51% 3
Overall(Jam) 3.23 504
Fun(Jam) 2.79 687
Humor(Jam) 3.00 448
Innovation(Jam) 3.70 147
Mood(Jam) 2.88 648
Theme(Jam) 3.73 252

Feedback

soyrandom-1
21. Apr 2015 · 01:03 UTC
Suerte!
SuperPokeunicorn
21. Apr 2015 · 01:15 UTC
I thought I was done with my Spanish homework D:

Seriously though, good job!
rectangular Tim
21. Apr 2015 · 01:29 UTC
The grinding gets a bit tedious. I wish there was a combo system where flawlessly answering a certain number of questions gave you a damage multiplier.
rjhelms
21. Apr 2015 · 15:31 UTC
Nice entry. Not every day you see an "edutainment" title in Ludum Dare.

Movement stuttered a lot when my browser was maximized (Chrome 42 on Windows at 1680x1050) but went away when I made the window smaller.
Backlund
21. Apr 2015 · 21:00 UTC
Lagged alot in Firefox, worked better in Chromium.
I have Linux
DefectiveMelon
21. Apr 2015 · 21:01 UTC
Muy divertido ! (i think that's right?) :) It was a nice and unexpected game/lesson. I think the words could've been mixed up a little more as it seemed like I got the same ones more often than not. Cool stuff here though
wood.innis
21. Apr 2015 · 21:01 UTC
Spanish class MMO.

I'd love to see co-op or PVP spanish battles.
lizard455
21. Apr 2015 · 21:07 UTC
Es bueno! :D
I was surprised to see that it was an MMO, also pretty educational!
efux
22. Apr 2015 · 14:08 UTC
I really like the idea. I leveled up until level 5 and then I got a little bit bored, because I already know a little bit of spanish. But in my opinion it's an idea which could be developed further, but with a little bit more diversity in the fights (instead of just multiple choice questions).

But nice entry overall =D
chikun Dev Team
22. Apr 2015 · 15:24 UTC
Dora the Explorer with murder.

Aside from the learning and trial and error, some more challenge via refined RPG mechanics could have been nice.
DarkwindMedia
22. Apr 2015 · 15:43 UTC
cute MMO!
UltraRat
23. Apr 2015 · 01:16 UTC
haha... More fun than flash. And finishing multiplayer is always impressive in a gamejam.

Wish I could just move by mouse click.
TeamQuadratic
23. Apr 2015 · 04:00 UTC
Solid foundation. I can see how a game like this could certainly be used to practice Spanish. It did get kind of redundant quickly, but nice leveling system as well.
seraphki
23. Apr 2015 · 04:11 UTC
=D I really like this concept! An MMO is a really ambitious thing to take on for a game jam! (At least I think it is, I guess I've never tried to build one)

I'd love to learn languages this way, I hope you guys take it further!
The4thCircle
23. Apr 2015 · 13:18 UTC
I enjoyed this and would have played it all dia were it not for the fact that in area dos the monsters seemed to keep disappearing and reappearing. I couldn't get any of them to engage with me.

I'm guessing this is because it's an online type thing and another player (whom I couldn't see) was taking them out.

Don't think it needed to be online.
Benjamin
24. Apr 2015 · 09:31 UTC
the difficulty curve is very good. I go to lvl 7 then get bored but I had time to learn a lot of new spanish words thanks to you :)
BIZM
26. Apr 2015 · 02:34 UTC
Very interesting game! I can see this being very useful for teaching beginners some Spanish. :) I really wish I could run a bit faster, though!
Pietro Ferrantelli
27. Apr 2015 · 13:49 UTC
Pretty nice entry overall and amazing job for a 72-hour work (first MMO I've ever seen in a LD) ! It's really interesting, congrats :)
TeslaCoil
01. May 2015 · 01:24 UTC
Ooh, very cool concept. I have to admit, though, one thought going through my mind the whole time was "why did I need an account for this?". I wouldn't have minded if it made a little save file somewhere, or even didn't save my progress at all. Making an account for such a simple game just seemed kind of silly.

Another bit of confusion came from the enemies - I wasn't sure what I had to do to fight them. At first, I walked into them and the fight started. Then, that seemed to stop working. I refreshed the page, that solved it for a while, but then it stopped working again and the fights seemed to start way after I walked into the enemies.
Fabraz
05. May 2015 · 13:57 UTC
Always good trying to teach language through games, but this might be too direct of an approach? Teach indirectly, like this the player won't even realize they're learning but are just enjoying the game.
Atmospherium
11. May 2015 · 20:50 UTC
Now I Spanish so good.