Influent 4+
Language Learning Game
Robert Howland
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
FREE TO PLAY: FRENCH + ITALIAN + KOREAN
20 Additional Languages via In-App Purchase
Current Price of Each Language: $0.99 USD
Influent is a Language Learning Game focusing primarily on vocabulary acquisition and pronunciation. It was initially developed in Japan at the University of Tsukuba's Entertainment Computing Laboratory under the Monbukagakusho Government Research Scholarship.
Inspired by Dreamcast titles of old (namely Shenmue and Toy Commander) Influent immerses players in a fully interactive 3D environment where the names for absolutely every object in the game can be gleaned with a single tap! In fact, even more information can be learned with a double-tap! Every door, drawer, and cabinet can be opened with a tap-and-hold, revealing more things to be learned! Packed to the brim with hundreds of native audio pronunciations (painstakingly recorded specifically for this game), Influent offers players of all ages a unique opportunity to enjoy learning both vocabulary and pronunciation in the language of their choice.
What’s New
Version 2.5
Minor bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Has Potential
I am stuck in a state where I am supposed to pretend my character is doing some sort of Twitch-like streaming of going around the house and clicking on objects (I guess, that’s just what I’m getting from the bee character’s dialogue when I open the game). Once the 15 minute timer is up, nothing happens. No idea how to get to the minigames, and I teach UI at a university…
Discord server invite link in the game is expired.
So, I think this app has a lot of potential. I am just not sure how to get to it, and it would be great if additional environments were added. I’d be willing to pay .99 per environment per language, and there are a few languages getting studied in my home.
Sooo helpful
The amount of time that the creator put into this is actually amazing! I’m learning Korean, and my biggest issue is immersion and putting vocab words to use. This helps so so so much.
I really like the testing feature where you have to go find the items to master the word.
I’ve been looking for an app that does exactly this. Immersion is super hard when you aren’t in an area where you have easy access to the language. This puts you in the position of forcing yourself to learn through looking at the objects. I think because it’s set in a house, and you’re surrounded by everyday objects, you have the ability to think about/redirect your attention to what’s physically around you IRL and use the new vocab.
I literally just started but, I really reccomend this to any beginners to the language— I’m super excited to see more progression in the game.
Rob you killed this, thank you!
Great for building vocab
Review for the Japanese version: If you already know the Japanese alphabet, this is a fantastic app to use when trying to learn the basics of items you see and use everyday in your home. I removed a star because the latter challenge (reversal challenges) are trying to test the user on words that are not in their vocab list. It is quite confusing and results in a failing score, I’m not sure why it keeps trying to give me words I have yet to study but it ruins the last bit of the challenges.
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Information
- Seller
- Robert Howland
- Size
- 395.5 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2014-2024 Rob Howland
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Korean $0.00
- French $0.00
- Italian $0.00
- Japanese $2.99
- Spanish $2.99
- Mandarin Chinese $2.99
- German $2.99
- Russian $2.99
- English $2.99
- Norwegian $2.99