The new client is the Center for American Indian Languages. The goal: Create interest in the Shoshone language and help them teach it to Shoshone youth. And by youth, I mean teenagers. Okay....So here we go. As I understand the problem, they want us to make learning about the Shoshone language and culture cool. Now to do that, do we abandon any notion of portraying an authentic portrayal of Shoshone culture? I'm told the parameters are wide open and we could make Shoshone Starfighters in space vs evil lizards if we wanted to but I dont think that is true....at all. The truth is that language and culture are absolutely linked. You cannot separate the two and we would be doing a disservice to their mission if we did that.
So.....in my opinion, we have to come up with a game that tries to portray them authentically. I think this is absolutely gamified teaching. So.....lets make damn cool gamified teaching. How do I do that? I dont know yet.
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