When you find a word you’re ready to begin mastering, you add it to your vocabulary. You simply walk around, click on objects, and the pronunciation of that object in your chosen language is dictated to you. You control Andrew in a fully 3D environment filled with a multitude of objects you might find in a guy’s apartment. The is truly the best way to describe Influent. He seems okay with this problem, however, and decides to spend his extra time learning the names of items in his apartment in a foreign language. He’s joined by an artificial intelligence version of the very tech he invented and is trying to keep it out of the hands of a thief. My guess is the developer wanted to tie in to the game’s history, as it gained momentum through Kickstarter.Īnyway, Andrew is locked in his apartment because…reasons. Rather than calling the police or something that makes sense, he chooses to run a livestream on a fundraising website. There’s very little gameplay, and it acts more like an interactive set of rooms to explore and learn pronunciations of words.Īndrew’s technology has apparently been stolen, so his answer to solving this problem is…interesting. It translates to “3D Dictionary,” which is the best way to describe this “game.” I use this term loosely, because this is a learning tool above anything else. Interestingly enough, I learned after playing that SanjigenJiten was the name of the prototype for the game. His latest creation is a device called “ SanjigenJiten,” which will tell its user the name of any object it sees in a different language. In Influent, you control a character by the name of Andrew Cross, an inventor. What better way to broaden my horizons as a teacher than start learning Spanish doing what I love: playing video games! So when I learned about Influent from Three Flip Studios, I was immediately intrigued. My district has a large Hispanic population, and my Spanish is basically non-existent. One thing I’m severely lacked as an educator is a second language. Not only do I teach my students, but I’m always looking for new ways to educate myself as well. When I’m not hosting The Gaming Outsider podcast or playing as many video games as humanly possible, I work as a 4th grade teacher in my hometown.
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