Yeah right off the bat:

• the menu is confusing, too much layers and clicks to get to the first level and I wasn’t even sure I was getting somewhere or what I was even doing
• once in a level I had no clue what was expected of me at first, I had to go to the “debug” to get some information, and even that wasn’t enough, I had to randomly figure out the rest
• drag and dropping units / blocks over and over is not engaging whatsoever
• it would be nice to be able to skip to more advanced topics if basic addition through grid counting isn’t something you need 25+ levels to understand

I quit after 6 levels. I would recommend to work on UI/UX. A tutorial would be nice too. And maybe don’t lock everything so the player have to do every single level to get to the next topic (I don’t even know if it’s the case, but 6 levels was too much already). Maybe open a few topics at the same time, with some progression required to get more?

Finally, I wouldn’t call that a game. I would be interested to get to more advanced topics to start learning or challenging myself, but when I want to play a game I wouldn’t go for that. From what I’ve seen of “learning games” those past 3 decades, they’re not fun, they’re not really games, they only pretend to to either attract parents to buy for their kids, or to lure people who like games (usually disappointing). Or they’re not really about learning, they’re games pretending to be educative. The making of a good game, and the making of a good learning tool, may be fundamentally too different to be compatible, or people are just bad at mixing them, save maybe rare exceptions.

In my experience, game and learning don’t go together. Either it’s a game or it’s a learning tool. Calling it a game will deter anyone actually looking for a game. But I’ll try it you never know.

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Bit late but I just remembered two interesting cases:

• some Japanese animes not intended for children but marketed to them in France ~30 years ago were sometimes not translated but dialogues were improvised to censor anything inappropriate
• in Switzerland they used to put subtitles in 3 languages resulting in a ridiculous proportion of the screen covered with text (maybe they still do idk)

Oh yeah they did something similar to japanese cartoons that were marketed to children a few decades ago. They completely made up dialogues because the original ones were too violent (but not intended for children), resulting in hilarious nonsense when you look back at it. There wasn’t much translation involved in the end.

Yes everything is voiced over, which I quickly grew tired of as an adult, you lose some in translation and voice acting. Most stuff on DVD is localized by default but you can select voice and subtitles languages. TV programs often have the option as well. Some theaters offer movies in their original language with subs, but it’s not commonplace. I didn’t watch anything on tv, dvd or at the theater for years tho.

Exclusively Terry Pratchett. I’ve been reading (again for the most part) all the discworld books and finaly hit the ones i never read.

I used to see bidets in some houses in France like 15+ years ago but they were already a rare sight, a thing of the past. I have no idea why.

To each their preferences, if people want to play “AAA” games or w/e that’s their choices. If you’re sick of the way they sell though I suggest trying something else, there are plenty of very good games out there that don’t shamelessly take their customers for piggy banks.

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