"Qapla'!" Intro to Linguistics for game developers; Making your own tools

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to.

 

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Intro to Linguistics for game developers



0:03:31


Martha Megarry



Category

Audio
Game Design

The Legend of Zelda’s Hylian Language - Fandom wiki

The Language Creation Society

A list of constructed languages in video games. - Wikipedia

Myst’s created language, D’ni. - Fandom wiki

“UK Professors Go Primal With 'Far Cry'” - Gail Hairston, University of Kentucky

SIL’s Glossary of Linguistics article on sonority scale - SIL

“Skyrim’s Dragon Shouts” - Matt Miller,, Game Informer

Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages - Omniglot

The Conlangers Library game list - Conlangers Library

“No Man’s Sky guide: alien races, languages and Monolith puzzles”  - Jeffrey Parkin, Polygon

The Rosetta Stone in Fez (Pretty obvious clue in hindsight.) - mykwud, YouTube

“Twitter Blowup Leads to Sudden Cancellation of Fez II”  -  Owen Good,  Kotaku

“Playing the Birth and Death of Language in 'Dialect'”  - Alex Roberts,  Waypoint

“Scientology’s enturbulating lingo” -  Britt Peterson, The Boston Globe

Kathryn Hymes on Twitter - @chiclashaw, Twitter

The Language Construction Kit, a book Martha recommended, is available for free…

Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r…

“Speaking ‘Star Trek’: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language”  - Matt Blitz, Popular Mechanics

The Klingon Language Institute is a thing that exists.

International Phonetic Alphabet - Wikipedia

“Mass Effect: Meeting the Elcor Ambassador” - Thieving HIppo, YouTube

“Gaming’s favorite VR mouse uses sign language in the cutest way” - Allegra Frank, Polygon

“Cantonese vs. Mandarin” - Off the Great Wall, YouTube

“Feast Your Eyes on This Beautiful Linguistic Family Tree”  - Arika Okrent, Mental Floss

The Conlangery Podcast is a neat podcast about linguistics and conlang. - Podcast

Making your own tools



0:44:57


Stephen McGregor



Category

Tools

We referenced a few of our episodes during the show:

"75% sure."

"The Stevechievement."

GDC 2017 Special (Part 1)

GDC 2017 Special (Part 2)

Stephen’s tool he recently made for Fingeance. - Stephen McGregor, Twitter

Tech Toolbox microtalks at GDC 2017 - GDC

Our friends at Howling Moon made Super Fast Soft Shadow. - Unity Asset Store