Laga
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
Latest Update 13/08/23: Beta Demo V3 is out!
Story driven game / visual novel set in the ancient Middle East after the fall of the Tower of Babel. It's based off a visual novel style of gameplay in which there are no battles or points to be gained. The emphasis is on characters, stories, and exploration. (Although there are 4 mini-games.)
- Approximately 2 hours of gameplay in Story Mode.
- Optional Language Learning Mode with 5-10 hours of gameplay, 4 minigames, and dictionary.
- Easy switch between Language Learning Mode and Story Mode.
Laga can be played in the following 28 languages:
- English
- Arabic - MSA
- Arabic - Levantine / Shami
- Danish (New!)
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- French
- German
- Greek (New!)
- Hebrew (New!)
- Italian
Japanese- Korean
- Kurdish - Kurmanji
- Latin
- Norwegian (New!)
- Pashto (New!)
- Persian (New!)
- Polish
- Portuguese Brazilian
- Romanian
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swahili (New!)
- Swedish (New!)
- Turkish (New!)
- Ukrainian
- Vietnamese
- Yiddish (New!)
If you don't see a language you'd like to learn, please write it in the comments!
Translations are good quality and *not* made with Google Translate.
The Language Learning Aspect:
If you choose, the native inhabitants of Laga will speak a language you're trying to learn. For those who wish to learn a language with Laga, they will have the translations in their native language, with the click of a button.
Laga has other language learning tools like a self-made dictionary, and exercises to become more familiar with vocabulary and grammar, based off the dialogue in the game. There is also a typing game to learn how to type in your target langauge.
Motivation:
The initial motivation for creating this game was to make a language learning tool that would be more effective and engaging than mainstream apps like Duolingo or Rosetta Stone. After creating a strong language learning engine for Laga, we realized that the game would be more engaging if it could stand on its own, without the language learning aspect.
The result is a story driven game with which you explore the land of Laga and it's crazy characters. If you want, you can turn on the language learning aspect if you feel like learning a language, or turn it off again if your feeling lazy and just want to play in your native language.
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Final game currently in development.
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This is the final version of the demo. After this, I'll be working on the next/first real chapter of this game. I'm so happy to finally be finished with the basic foundation of Laga! It's going to be a lot of fun from this point forward. The whole point of this game is the story, which is going to be nothing short of an epic to be released one chapter at a time.
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Development log
- Mini Update for V3Aug 24, 2023
- V3 is finished: 10 new languages and 2 new mini-games! Wooooooooooooooohoooooooo...Aug 13, 2023
- V2 - New Languages and TONS of bugs eliminated!Jul 09, 2023
- The beta demo is up and ready to download!Jun 28, 2023
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I've always dreamed of having such a game for language learning, where it's a story first and foremost but that you can explore while learning a new language. I've immediately recommended it to my friends who are learning Arabic.
I'd love for it to include Mandarin Chinese as well.
I Really Enjoyed The Game So Much
EVEN ITS BETTER THAN OTHER VISUAL NOVELS
I downloaded the game today and finished it today, it's been a while since the game was released and a new chapter hasn't been added yet
Hungarian would be nice
Hey, a trespasser here, and I saw that there's a mistranslation in Korean in the preview screenshots. In the screenshot where Jasmine says "Which language do you want to learn?" and Korean (in Hangul, the Korean alphabet) is highlighted, 한국인 means Korean as if in a Korean person. To say Korean as if in the Korean language, you would want to use 한국어.
This games seems super interesting, so thank you for developing this game
Can't wait to continue my Laga journey :)
This is a wonderful game! It is exactly what I have searched for. Fun characters, an interesting story and an relaxed atmosphere to immers into the language.
Thanks so much!
I've send a small amount your way and definitely plan to buy the following chapters
I really enjoyed this demo and I can't wait to see more of the game! I'm a language lover and, just like you, I can't really retain things from just studying with apps. The real-time, real-conversation aspect of this is so cool!
If it's possible, I think an on-screen keyboard for the target language would be really helpful. I have a physical one that has both English and my target language's layout, but I'm sure not everyone does. So, that would be really cool to possibly see in the future :)
Thank you for making this; keep up the amazing work!
I really can't believe I downloaded visual novels originally to learn English, so I was surprised that the game has a feature for that ------enthusiasm af-----, and it also has the Syrian dialect, oh my God
I love the Syrian dialect - I made this game for myself to learn it :)
لا اصدق حق ا انا حملت روايات مرئية اصلا لتعلم الانجليزية فتفاجئت بان اللعبة فيها خاصية لدلك حمااس وفيها اللجة السورية كمان يا الاهي
أكيد! عملت هالشي لحالي عشان أتعلم العربية السورية :))))))))))))
سأجرب اللعبة حالا دام فيها عربية
العربية والعربية السورية كانتا أول لغتين لهذه اللعبة. قم بتحميلها وسترى :)
Hello. I downloaded the game (and did send a little money for it.) I have been playing the game on Japanese, and would like to let you know there are some pretty big holes in the Japanese version right now. I'm pretty sure whatever algorithm you use to parse the sentences relies on there being spaces, and because there are no spaces in Japanese, the personal dictionary is completely broken (you translate entire sentences) as well as one of the games--the one in which you are supposed to order the words in the sentence (you just order the sentences in front of the punctuation mark--haha!) The third game just brings up an error screen it looks like. Also, for some reason, a number of kanji don't display. Maybe you have a limited character set? There are also some silly things with translation but I'm sure you're already aware of this fact. I thought I'd let you know about these problems, though. It's still fun and useful to read through the Japanese sentences, but the language learning features you developed are essentially broken for Japanese as of now. Thank you for this cool game!
I really appreciate the feedback! This is good to know. I'm going to pull the Japanese because it's been giving me too many problems. I won't give up on it entirely but for now it's going on the back burner. Luckily I haven't been having the same problems with any other languages.
I'll be sad to see it go, but I understand, it's probably better to pull it than to have some people think the whole game is broken!
Definitely. When it comes to translations and language learning, it's better to focus on quality than quantity. This is especially true for Japanese!
I arrived in laga and they started to speak another language but... should I translate it without learning anything? it is kind of confusing
These kinds of games are meant to be explored and discovered by yourself so I don't want to give too much away. My recommendation is to make the game whatever you want it to be. The language learning tools will all be there by the first 20 - 30 minutes or so. You haven't gotten to that point yet :)
ok, I will try my best