Who are we?Hello everyone,
We're Tentáculo Studio, a little videogame studio based in Madrid, Spain.
Our team is formed by:
Alberto Gómez - programmer
Alejando Miralles - programmer and project manager
Julio Duque - artist and animator
Luis Carlos Vaquero - programmer
Rubén Rincón - music composer and sound designer
Tentáculo StudioWhat do we do?Actually, most of us are studying and working on this in our free time (which is not a lot
)
Last year we experimented a bit with our first game,
Krono Football (
LINK), a game based on the amazing Casio digital watches, in which you had to stop the timer as close to 0 as possible in order to score a goal.
Right now we're working on
Tako's Japanese, our most ambitious project up to now, in which we've been working for almost two years.
What is Tako's Japanese?Tako's Japanese is a game/app to learn how to
read and write Japanese. With Tako's Japanese, were trying to turn the boring task of learning a language into a fun experience. To achieve that, we've mixed the traditional way of learning japanese with videogames, creating this way a mixture we think it's going to be fun and original.
DevelopmentWe're currently at the 60% mark of its development.
We're actually working on the tablets version and after that, we'll work on the adaptation of the mobile version, which won't take too long hopefully.
ToolsThe game is being developed in
ActionScript3 with
Adobe Air,
Starling and
Feathers.
For the graphic part we use Illustrator and animating the resulting sprites with Flash.
Features- Learn to
read and
write Hiragana, Katakana and
Noken 5 Kanji.
-
86 lessons, divided into Hiragana, Katakana and Noken 5 Kanji, so players can choose what they want to learn first.
- You'll be able to
listen to every single character pronunciation.
-
Study Mode, in which you'll be able to practice each letter individually.
- Every lesson has several
minigames, which will test your language skills throughout the game.
- You'll be able to play these minigames too in the
MiniGames Mode, which will let you play with the characters you've already learned.
Screenshots
PlatformsiOS
Android
Kindle Fire
As we said, we’re currently working on the tablets version. As soon as it’s released we’ll adapt it to a mobile version.
Hope you like the project
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