Разработчик: Progorion
Описание
In the game, you have 3 worlds to play. In the first one, you have to find animals by their English names, in the third one you have to find them by their Spanish names. In the second world, you see both the English and Spanish name of the animals. You can freely choose levels from the 3 worlds.
The quicker you find objects the higher score and achievement you get. By getting 3 stars completing a level you will get pieces from the puzzle of the Hidden Animals.
- 72 Challenging Hidden Object levels using 36 backgrounds
- Language learning aspect
- 3 language worlds to play (English, English - Spanish, Spanish)
- 112 items to discover
- 12 dedicated piano songs for the game
- Built-in Owl Eye Hint
- 3 Hidden Animals Fresco
- More than 3-8 hours of gameplay
Building your vocabulary is about repetition. The best way to repeat words is to use them somehow and in our opinion, a game is a really good tool for that. Many of us learned English from video games. This small game is for those who likes the hidden object genre that offers a relaxing activity with a really useful feature: helping you to study Spanish.
The dedicated music of the game was made by András Illés who is a multi-instrumental musician and composer.
*Trading cards, backgrounds, emoticons, and badges are uploaded, but won't appear until steam accepts them and lets them to appear. This is because of the new system of Steam Direct.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP SP2, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card: DX9 compatible
- Storage: 450 MB available space
- Additional Notes: The game is optimized to 16:9 (1920x1080 for example) aspect ratio. The game runs with other aspect ratios as well, but the pictures won't appear in full-screen.
Отзывы пользователей
Lovely music makes this hidden object game better than most.
A nice game as such, but containing unforgivable mistakes in the vocabulary that it’s supposed to teach you, and badly optimised in my opinion.
I bought this game for my 9 year old daughter, who likes hidden object games and is quite good in them - but there aren't that many suitable for children, so I was happy to find this one. Since we are neither English nor Spanish native speakers, I was prepared to translate for her and the game wasn't meant as an educational tool, but she learns English in school, so I hoped she would also pick up a few animal names while playing. But very early she got frustrated by the fact, that it seemed simply impossible to get three golden stars and thus uncover more pieces of the bonus puzzle, no matter how quick she was or how hard she tried (I tried to help with that and didn't succeed either) - so she stopped playing because it was driving her to tears, and I bought her Hidden Animals Photo Hunt instead to make up for this disappointment.
Then I started playing myself. I got through all the levels, but I wasn’t able to figure out how the scoring works. At first I thought one just had to be really quick, but sometimes I got three stars when it took me 60 seconds and sometimes 30 seconds wasn’t enough for even one star, so I didn’t have a clue. Eventually I developed an effective way how to exercise my newly acquired language skills - after opening a level find all the animals in it and try to name them one by one, and only after that start clicking on the 8 randomly chosen – which turned out to be also an effective way how to receive three stars, so I guess it’s good mechanics in itself, but having to find that out by trial and error wasn’t that great. This was long after I decided not to mind the scoring (even though it kept me slightly wondering because it just seemed completely random) and concentrate on actually learning a few Spanish words just for fun and some new English words too, because to this day I never knew what a curlew was for instance (neither in my own language).
Very soon it became clear that this won’t work without a Spanish dictionary (with pronunciation, because what use is knowing how to write a word in foreign language when you don’t know how to say it), a zoological encyclopedia and lots and lots of googling – because there was a lot of birds pictured as seen from a distance that weren’t recognisable at all, animals I wasn’t sure about and didn’t know their English name, and some I thought I knew but the English name given didn’t correspond with that. And thus I found the greatest fault of this game, one that simply doesn’t allow for a positive review: there are mistakes in the vocabulary. You get a picture of a stag beetle – yet are given “dor-beetle” as its English name, and “el escarabajo de oro“ as its Spanish name, which appears to be a jewel scarab Chrysina resplendens. You get a picture of a grosbeak and the right English name for it - yet are given the Spanish name for a great spotted woodpecker (el pico picapinos). The same goes for a hyena, that is passed to you as a lynx (el lince) in Spanish. You get a picture of a silver angelfish – yet are given “sailfish“ both in English and Spanish (el pez vela), which is a very interesting fish with a characteristic dorsal fin that I didn't know at all before. And so on. (Please do correct me on any of these if I'm wrong.) If you are really dedicated to learning the right names, you’ll find all that for yourself, and it certainly teaches you not to trust everything that is written and verify your information. But I doubt the game was meant to remind you of the importance of that instead of teaching you the correct words.
Also, I went through all the English-Spanish levels, so that I would be able to learn the Spanish names of all the animals in the game, and then practice them in the Spanish levels. But there are a few animals that are not present in the bilingual levels, and then appear in the Spanish ones – how is one supposed to learn those? Again the only way is to use a dictionary outside the game, which is uncomfortable and the game being designed this way somewhat goes against its proclaimed educational value. Plus the fact that you are given 8 randomly chosen animals in each level to find and thus practice resulted for me in getting the same animals again and again and again most of the time, while others weren't chosen but once or twice. This really isn't a very good way of building your vocabulary.
Then there are some minor issues. As mentioned in another review, it’s quite annoying having to click the exit icon three times in a row in order to exit the game. Much more annoying is entering the bonus puzzle every time you finish a level with 3 stars, after it has long been uncovered – one wants to revisit the levels in order to practice the words, which this feature makes rather unpleasant. And the score counting at the end of each level simply takes too long (not to mention that the dull jingle accompanying it always feels like a slap in the face after such great music in the level itself), but if you skip it, you don‘t get to see what score and how much stars did you get. I also encountered two minor bugs: in one English level there is a picture of a curlew assigned to “hoopoe“ (in other levels these two birds are correctly distinguished) and in one Spanish level a bear and a fish it carries in its mouth are wrongly assigned each to the other‘s name.
Pros: Unlike one other reviewer I find the way the animals are “glued“ into the landscapes quite cute and often entertaining. And the music of course – that is undeniably good.
Meh, completed the English sets in 45 minutes. There are also 24 english-spanish scenes and 24 spanish scenes.
I've you're going to do a language orientated hidden object scene then surely it's make more sense to have useful things to know like cars, beer, trains, wallet, money etc.
The English sets comprised of 24 scenes, 8 animals each scene BUT, It's the same animals over and over again, placed poorly in to environments where the animals mostly don't live.
I'd say don't pay more than a dollar for it.
Get hidden animals photo hunt instead, that's much better.
Brilliant game for my 4 year old to spend some quality "game" time with me.
Music is awesome, and the game simple enough to keep her attention.
Well done here. £1.99 well spent!
Quick and easy game, with a amazing soundtrack. Very good for children and younger people to learn new words in another language.
The game just gets in the way of good music.
Seriously for the first time I turned my computer screen off and just listened to the relaxing original grand piano 12 piece soundtrack. The Developer of this edutainment game Amdras Illis http://www.progorion.com/about.html is also its musical composer. To write original musical scores like he does, he must be extremely talented, like a progeny of Mozart. What are you doing wasting your time coding? You should be in Carnegie Hall, touring the world staying in ritzy hotels demanding room service that they fill your hot tub to the brink with red m and m's. Signing record deals with clauses that include bodyguards that fight back all the tweens that want to catch a glimpse of the new 'Hungary got Talent' superstar.
So with such an amazing talent of being able to write and play music why waste it on things like this? Do you really think people want to hear the new 12 track romantic hidden object album you’re producing? The title and setting just does not do your talents justice. This is beneath you...
With his musical abilities placed aside Amdras wants to make learning a new language fun. He has produced this concept where you need to find various hidden animals among 36 different backgrounds. First in English, then with the names of the animals displayed in both English and Spanish and finally in Spanish. The problem with this concept is that since there is no pronunciation given in any of the categories learning here seems rather trivial and fleeting.
Sure it did teach me that 'el perro' is dog and that their very long word I can't pronounce is a duck etc., but can I string a sentence together like 'your dog is humping my leg'? No. So what is the point of all this? Someone who is really genuine about learning Spanish or English would do much better if they just downloaded any of the many free translators or tutors available like 'duolingo'. The only target audience this might do well with is public schools. Students are all too thankful for introduced programmes that get them onto a computer and out of a text book.
The game forces you to remember because speedy clicking is crucial if you are to get 3 stars on each landscape which in turn will reward you with 2 puzzle pieces vanishing from a picture of a mystery animal. Each category (English/English and Spanish/Spanish) has their own mystery animal that needs revealing as an extra incentive.
In total nearly 4 hrs I’ve spent completing the game, 3.2 of which was spent looking for that bleeding grasshopper. I assure you, I spoke another expletive language when that thing showed up.
In final a very talented musician which seems to be wasting his time on a concept where the target audience would be trivial since there are many more suitable learning apps already flooding the market?
Below is a sample of the game from someone else...
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Progorion |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (6) |