GLYPHAE is an Android mobile game designed to make learning Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs fun and engaging. Inspired by the Tamagotchi-style gameplay, players raise an Egyptian god from an egg to their godly form by fulfilling their various needs: hunger, health, joy, and energy.
Each need is met by playing games that teach the player hieroglyphs through a Leitner-flashcard-inspired memory system. As you progress, the difficulty increases and new mini-games become available, reflecting the five steps of second language acquisition described by Stephen Krashen.
- Up to 4 different creatures to unlock and take care of, each with their own set of hieroglyphs to learn.
- At least 25 basic hieroglyphs to learn, with the potential for hundreds in later updates.
- 5 evolution phases with different effects on need changes.
- Increase complexity of games and unlock new ones as your pet evolves
- 3 Different overall difficulties that alter the gameplay a bit
- Engage in 8 different mini-games (so far) to fulfill your pet's needs: hunger, health, joy, and energy
- Receive notifications when needs drop to low, and by fulfilling these requests evolve your creature
- Hunger: Feed your pet hieroglyphs to still its hunger.
- Health: Engage in a game to heal your pet by matching hieroglyphs and letters in the correct order.
- Joy: Play various mini-games to entertain your pet and learn new hieroglyphs.
- Energy: Read a magic lullaby-spell to boost your pet’s energy, so you can play on.
When any of these needs drops below a threshold, your pet will notify you. Each notification serves as an opportunity to learn new hieroglyphs and evolve your pet to the next stage.
As your pet evolves, the following will happen:
- The difficulty of the mini-games will increase slightly
- Their needs will increase / decrease in a different manner
- Their appearance will change to show growth
- New games for the "joy" activity will become available
- These changes reflect the five steps of second language acquisition:
- Pre-production
- Early Production
- Speech Emergence
- Intermediate Fluency
- Advanced Fluency
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- Download the APK file from the releases page here.
or
- Download the APK from my itch.io page
- Open the GLYPHAE app on your Android device.
- Select an egg to begin raising your god.
- Fulfill your pet’s needs by playing different mini-games.
- Evolve your pet by meeting its needs when it calls you.
- Learn hieroglyphs in a playful manner along the way.
Ancient Egyptian Desert Music - Tyler Cunningham @ Unity Asset Store
Desert Theme - ProjectHelmet @ OpenGameArt.org
Fantasy Wooden GUI - Black Hammer @ Unity Asset Store
Link Handler Script - ChristinaCreatesGames @ github.com
Horus Symbol & Sobek Symbol - Jeff Dahl @ Wikimedia
Wadjet Symbol & Nekhbet Symbol - EternalSpace @ Wikimedia
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Emoji Icons by various artists @ OpenMoji.org
- Fork the repository.
- Create a new branch for your feature or bug fix:
git checkout -b feature-name
- Commit your changes:
git commit -m 'Add some feature' - Push to the branch:
git push origin feature-name
- Open a pull request.
This project is dual-licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 for the software and the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license for some derivatives for the created or edited assets based on originals from Openmoji or Wikipedia.
- Software Code: Licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3). See LICENSE-GPLv3 file for details.
- Assets: Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). See LICENSE-CC-BY-SA file for details.
GNU General Public License v3.0: See the file for details. CC BY-SA License: See the file for details.
Feel free to open an issue or contact me at n-c0de-r_contact@e.mail.de.