Linguistics game

[DeReel]

Hello,
I came upon the Yukaghir love letter explained and immediately thought of making a game out of it. But I am lazy and would like your help to gather parts from other games.

I thought of Dialect, because… linguistics, but there’s also this sign language teaching game, and these ideogram teaching games - Yes @Ben_Bisogno I’m looking at you - and I think Sign In Stranger, with its way of getting to know an alien culture by way of an abstract map of things and concepts. And many others I ignore, maybe about mystery, communication ?

If you know such a game, how do you see it working for a “text drawing” (// map drawing) game. Where do you think it would fail ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

[Ben_Bisogno]

This reminds by of Xenolanguage by Thorny Games.

Xenolanguage: A Game about First Contact

[DeReel]

Are you forgetting your own magic ideograms game ?

[Marcio_Moreira]

That letter is so interesting. I don’t know a lot about games like this, but I’m curious, so I’ll just lurk in the corner. (What’s the magic ideograms game?)

[DeReel]

The magic word was “kanji” : it lead me straight to Spells with Character (Bisogno) :

Formatting Cards for "Spells with Character" a RPG system for learning how to spell in Japanese

My question: What could be improved? Is the way to use this card self evident? The project: I am at the start of a long project developing an RPG system for learning how to write in Japanese. I am trying to develop a minimal viable example for a playtest. The system: Inspired by No Dice No Masters, players would invoke a “spell component”, a part of the character, and do something in-game associated with it. Then the player would flip the card, write the character without seeing it, and c…

… and thanks to @Majcher it bounces me to Magicians : language learning RPG (Symons)

Magicians: Language Learning RPG - Samjoko Publishing | DriveThruRPG.com

@Kyle_Simons ?

Although I’m going the other way around, from a drawing to a language that doesn’t exist, I hope you can help me.

[DeReel]

And here’s the hand sign language game, edited by Thornygames just like Dialect :
https://thornygames.com/products/sign-a-game-about-being-understood