After a relaxing holiday in the sun, we are back and working hard to finish our Spanish Verb Conjugation game. Unfortunately, we were side tracked by some admin tasks which took longer than expected.
I guess you can empathize with receiving an unexpected letter; which then results in you spending the next few days on formulating a response! This is then followed by more delays, since there appear to be issues with post getting through. Once you receive a response, you find out that there are more questions than answers and off you go again with responding… and this, in a nutshell, is life sometimes. It’s part of what needs to be done to keep DOMA Games up and running. Now that we’ve overcome the obstacles, nothing can hold us back 🙂
Most importantly, we are back in full swing and will share a more in depth progress update late next week!
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:
Mine Sweeper is now ready, published and all feedback implemented. You can get it for free – and ad free – from the Google Play Store. As always, if you have further improvement suggestions, do get in touch and let us know.
Whilst we were putting the final touches on Mine Sweeper, we were also busy on the first version of our next game. We call it “Spanish Verb Conjugation”, because that is what you can learn with it.
Did you know that the Spanish language contains more than 12,000 verbs? In addition, there are over 80 ways of conjugating irregular verbs. Yes, it is indeed a lot of work to get the conjugation right when you are learning to speak the language. That is why we created this game: to help everyone who wants to learn conjugation fast and with some fun. The premium game includes over 3,000 of the most common verbs and conjugation of all 10 tenses. We will also be releasing a free version, which will include your first 100 verbs and the first 3 tenses.
Currently, we are working on making the game available for early testing. Ideally, we would like to provide the game for free to the first 100 early access users. Having actual users would really help to get early feedback. The game is functionally ready and we’re working on the polish.
So, if you are interested in speeding up your learning curve, sign up to our updates on the Spanish Verb Conjugation game with the below form. We are aiming to send updates at each major milestone which we expect to happen about every two weeks.
