BABEL
Babel is a
game-like application that allows surfing a 3D world populated with
conversations created by other users, and read them
These
conversations have an adventure game format: A Sentence can be followed by
different options, each one of them has an answer that can be followed by
different options, and so on... giving it a tree shape, so every time we choose
to read a conversation we can follow a different branch
Babel uses
an external tool called scriptmaker (a PC program) that allows creating users,
writing conversations, and upload them on the internet, to be used by the
mobile using Babel
THE 3D WORLD
When Babel starts, it shows a 3D world in which
we can interact with, by using the icons located at the top left corner of the
screen:
Rotate the world
Zoom in/out the world
Select a conversation
Show/Hides the portion of the accessible
world
As
soon as Babel starts, it searches on the internet for conversations, and
display its location with the symbol 
, so they can be selected
and read them
SEARCHING FOR CONVERSATIONS
Babel
uses an search engine to look for conversations created by users and upload
them using the tool Scriptmaker. We can enter a word or group of words, and it
will show the conversations that contains those words, so we can choose them
and read them
Another
way of searching for conversations is just by clicking on the icon
on the 3D world. This
will show up a list of conversations that are in that location, allowing us to
choose one, and start reading it.
LOG ON
For
those who have downloaded the tool scriptmaker, and have created a user there,
there is the possibility of log on through Babel, using the same user and
password
This is not compulsory. You can use Babel without log on, and just read the conversations that others have written, but then, your progress on the game will not be saved. See later on about how the game works
STATISTICS
The
statistics page shows you the progress that you and the rest of the users using
Babel are doing.
There is a difference in this page depending whether you have successfully logged on or not.
Only the users that have an account created with the tool scriptmaker, will see their individual progress as well as a list of the people that are more active reading and being read by others
The anonymous users will see just this list
THE CONVERSATIONS
Anyone that has something funny / interesting / deep / curious / silly / ... to say, can do so by using scriptmaker, allowing Babel users to have something funny / interesting / deep / etc... to read
Following is a little sample of some conversations already uploaded for some people in different languages.
HOW THE GAME WORKS
Once you start using Babel, you can choose any conversation to start with.
From then on, you can only choose those ones that are contiguous to it.
You can always click/unclick on the icon 
,
located on the top left corner of the screen, to see/hide the areas of the
world that are accessible:
The
world is made up of rhombus, and every time we use a conversation, that part of
the world become accessible, as well as their neighbours. In this screen, the
portions in red are the areas in which we have used some conversations, and the
ones in pink, are their neighbours. Any conversation in those areas can be read
Also, if someone else uses a conversation made by us (only for those who have an account), their area becomes also accessible for us. It will appear in purple.
SCRIPT MAKER
In order to create an account and upload conversations, there is a small application called scriptmaker, which can be downloaded from
All the explanations about how to use this application are in this page too, both in English and Spanish