Hopster’s Alphabet Hotel

The Program-Ace team developed an educational game from scratch according to GDD (Game Design Document) composed by our team together with the client’s producer. Our team has performed cross-platform development to allow players to enjoy interactive education on multiple mobile platforms, initially targeting iOS and Android. Basically, Alphabet Hotel is built according to a casual level-game structure. The youngster finds himself/herself in the hotel's great hall with a variety of rooms (levels) that help children learn letters and sounds in the easiest way for them - through the game. Besides the stealth-like nature and accessibility, our approach featured the following characteristics:

- Quick-to-the-fun
We designed the game with minimal play inputs/choices that are required to interact in order to relieve children from unnecessary fuss and deliver the necessary information in an interactive manner.
- Sense-based approach
The game has minimal text with most information visual or audible in order to be perceived by kids under 7 years-old who cannot read.
- A set of educational mini-games
Inside the hotel, children will play a variety of mini-games to consolidate their learning of the single-letter phonemes before progressing towards learning more complicated combinations that will be digraphs (2 letter phonemes) to make up the majority of the 44 speech sounds used in the English language.

The Program-Ace team designed the background elements with several depth levels: foreground, midground (or interactive area where 2-6 year-olds actually play to learn the alphabet) and backgrounds for each “hotel room” as well as the hotel’s decor. Moreover, the entire gameplay was developed by our Unity certified specialists in a way that can be effectively acquired by toddlers and play agers. Each level is designed to replicate gamified learning, which is the most efficient way of memorizing things, especially for children under 7 years-old. The style of the game is kept cartoonish in order to be better perceived by the young generation. The Program-Ace team also connected app analytics systems such as Google Analytics and AppSee.