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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.
Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev.
Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers
0:03:31
Martha Megarry
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… - book
Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r… - book
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
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
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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.
Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev.
Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers
0:03:31
Martha Megarry
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… - book
Describing Morphosyntax: A Guide For Field Linguists is the other book Martha r… - book
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
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
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