Our Spanish Verb Conjugation game is now released!
You can download it here:
Spanish Verb Conjugation is a fun learning tool for mastering the art of conjugating Spanish verbs. Your goal is to select the correct conjugation for the selected tense and specified person. To win a round, you must choose 20 correct conjugations whilst making less than 3 mistakes.
Spanish Verb Conjugation game screenshots
It includes all of our 3,660 verbs in order of priority; that is more than one word a day for 10 years! It includes the conjugations for the 10 most important tenses for all of these verbs. And, it sells for a one off cost of just £11.99 or equivalent (US$12.99, €14.99). There are no adds, no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no further payments ever. Compare this to some other offers: even a book of just 501 Spanish verbs costs three times this!
Yes, you heard right. We are putting the finishing touches on Spanish Verb Conjugation before releasing in the next few days.
Screenshots from our game: – Flower game (left) – Learn New Verb in order or priority (right) – Select Tenses settings (top middle) – Pick From Three game (bottom middle)
We are specifically checking over the definitions of reflexive verbs that differ from the non-reflexive version of the same verb.
Some are easy such as vestir means to dress (someone) or to wear (something) and vestirse means to get dressed or put on some clothes. Other reflexive verbs are less straight forward. For example, agarrotar means to “to squeeze tightly” and agarrotarse means “to become stiff”.
About a month ago, we had only two bugs left to fix. They are fixed now! YAY!
What a great feeling to be so close to releasing our Alpha candidate. Close means we are not over the line though. As we worked through the previous bugs, we noticed some areas we could polish whilst we were at it. The usual unexpected paperwork and challenges with artwork added more delays.
In other words, our new planned release date for Alpha is this week Friday and all signs are positive we’ll get it done.
Yes, you read that right: We only have two more bugs to fix before we can put it all together and show you how the Spanish Verb Conjugation game will play like!
We’re all set up to put in the graphics and make some videos, which you’ll be able to watch on our YouTube channel or on our Google PlayStore.
If you want to sign up to play it before the official release, use the subscription form or contact us directly on info@doma.games.
UPDATE: The game is live and you can download it here:
Spanish Verb Conjugation will teach you how to conjugate Spanish verbs in a fun and friendly way. It includes all 86 irregular ways of conjugating Spanish verbs. It includes the 10 different tenses from the indicative through the subjunctive to the imperative across all six different persons. And it does this with over 3,600 verbs!
Best of all: Once it’s downloaded, you don’t need an internet connection! So wherever you are, you can keep learning and practising.
How will you play it?
You can select any verb you want, learn today’s verb of the day, or continue your journey through learning the most important verbs first using our version of the spaced repetition learning technique. Once a verb is selected, you choose which tense you want to practise. Then the fun begins.
The Flowers game will show you flowers containing random conjugations of the verb. Your goal is to pick the correctly conjugated form for the person and tense before they float away. Here is a preview of what the screen will look like with the verb “hablar” (to speak; to talk):
What do you think?
It’s not ready yet in that the final verb display and scoreboard is still being worked on. We are also working on a little bull as a mascot to be our logo and stand in the field. More on that next week though.
Do write in and share your ideas on how to improve it, what you like and what you want us to change.
If you want to play it, get in touch to get on the early user list so you can give it a go sooner than anyone else!
UPDATE: The game is live and you can download it here:
There are many reasons to improve your Spanish. And, what better place to start than verbs – the action words of every language?
Verbs are the only word needed to make a sentence. Just think about this for a moment. How often do you tell someone to “Look” or “Stop!” or “Move”?
It may not just be the love of grammar. You may also need to learn Spanish verb conjugation for school or university. Possibly, you were inspired when you holidayed in any of the 21(!) Spanish speaking countries such as Spain or Mexico.
Flag of Spain by RelShot 263 (CC0)Flag of Mexico by Alex Covarrubias (CC0)
As for me, I wanted to be able to speak Spanish from a very young age. I don’t know why. I just knew that I would want to speak Spanish one day. There were many failed attempts and my main hurdle was the complex verb conjugation. I looked for more fun ways than mere repetition, but I didn’t find anything that would cover my need to learn all of the tenses and not just the present tense and one of the past tenses. So we decided to build our own game!
Fast forward a year or two and the game is now ready for testing. Our database contains over 3,600 verbs which rotate as the “Verb of the Day”; for those who want to practice every day without getting bored. If you think long term, that’s nearly 10 years worth of a new verb every day without repetition! And yes, they cover all the 83 irregular conjugations we are aware of.
Does 3,600 verbs sound like too much? Fear not! We have prioritized the most important verbs by how often they are used in every day speech in the “Learn New Verb” section. This way, you’ll stay focused on what you need the most. It also feeds into the “Revise Verbs” section, which helps you stay on track with your revisions. It uses our version of the spaced repetition learning technique, to ensure revision is beneficial – without overdoing it of course.
Our demo version will be free and will contain the most important verbs and tenses so you can get a feel for the game. The full version will contain all of the 3,600 verbs, all of the 10 tenses and all of the persons you’ll ever come across.
If you want to be one of our early access testers, please sign up with the form below and let us know what you think of it. Your feedback is very welcome!
Fun fact: did you know that the Spanish language features more than 12,790 verbs?
UPDATE: The game is live and you can download it here:
It’s been a long time coming but it’s finally arrived. We have released our first game: our own version of Mine Sweeper!
It may not be the most creative start into our games journey, but it’s a start, and we are proud of it. That’s what it’s all about after all: Getting started and gaining experience with the release process. Most importantly: now we have an actual game published.
Our way to learn how to make great games is to use each game we work on as an opportunity to learn something new. We focus on an area that we need to improve upon or try something new: Try a new mechanic, or existing mechanics in new combinations. It will be a long journey – we hope – since that would mean we are continuing to improve our skills and our games are getting better. It would also mean that we continue making games which after all is what we want to do.
What is next you ask?
We are currently working on a game that helps you learn to conjugate verbs in Spanish. I used it while I learnt Spanish and continue to use it today. I have given pleeenty of feedback along the way. After all, conjugation by itself isn’t a lot of fun, but our game should make it so. So hang on tight for more news!
In the meantime: try out our Mine Sweeper game, which can be played in landscape or portrait mode. You can even customise the size of the mine field and the number of hidden mines in contains.
You can find it on Google Play Store. It’s free and ad free. Try it today!
