1) You take on the role of a translator joining a heroic fantasy team exploring a dungeon in search of treasure. 2) As the translator, you must learn the languages of the other team members to effectively communicate and coordinate their skills and abilities during the adventure. 3) The game challenges your linguistic skills through interactions with characters and situations that test your knowledge of nouns, verbs, grammar, and ability to translate effectively between the languages.

1. IGAM4ER COMPETITION
TRANSLATION
IN THE DUNGEON
An RPG game based on linguistic skills
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2. The translator, at the
center of a heroic-fantasy
team
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3. The story
You have been chosen by
your talents of translator to
bring some cohesion in a
heroic-fantasy team
Your mission : to infiltrate a
dungeon to find the
treasure
The problem : you have been
misinformed ! You don't
know the languages used
by the members of the
team. Well, you will have
to learn with the help of
your linguistic skills...
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4. How to play?
By coordinating all team
members and using all
of their abilities
Not by clicking, but by
saying it
Interacting with characters,
creatures, skills,
weapons, space...
Creating his own inventories
of nouns, verbs and
other grammatical
categories
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5. "Warrior dwarf, attack the
skeleton sorcerer with your
axe!"
I) Vocative: how to
II) Imperative: how to III) How to express
apostrophe someone give orders, with
and define the object
which verbs
IV) You want the
dwarf to attack a
particular enemy, use
adjectives. What it
the canonic order?
V) The manner:
VI) The lifes of your
skeletons resist to
partners depend of
arrows, an axe is a
your traduction!
good choice. But will
you use a preposition
or a postposition?
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6. The universe
The company will have to
prepare itself before to
fight
In the village, you will find a
blacksmith and a healer :
useful to enrich your
glossary !
And, of course, a pub, to
make relations, maybe to
find secondary missions or
to hire mercenaries.
Bonus : you could hear
songs of your partners or
of other clients!

7. In the Village
To test your linguistic skills:
the library and the
translation room
In the library, you could search
grammatical words as
“because” or “then” to better
build your sentences
In the translation room, you
will be able to work with a
companion to translate
some verbs and other
abstract processes, like
« attack », « defend », « be
prudent » by using
schematic illustrations
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8. In the Dungeon
You will move forward into a
place full of horrific
monsters
Besides, you will have to
manage the tiredness of the
compagny, the supplies or
the difficulties of the ground
Each of these situations will
test your knowledge : it
would be better to advise
the others to rest few times,
not to eat like a dwarf or to
climb with precaution this
wall
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9. Benefits of the game
TRANSLATION IN THE DUNGEON can be considered as a
pedagogical tool to form to linguistic methods and skills,
particularly to :
The relativity of grammatical structures
The identification by comparison
A potential object of research
A great corpus created by speakers of different mother
tongues
Especially for typologists and didacticians
TRANSLATION IN THE DUNGEON is a ludic game teaching
endangered languages