Navigo

Navigo is an ambitious tablet-based learning game designed to support children learning English, German, Spanish, or Greek as a first language. Developed by fish in a bottle alongside a major European research consortium, the game complements traditional classroom teaching by reinforcing core literacy skills through an engaging narrative and a wide range of interactive game mechanics. As part of the fish in a bottle development team, we worked closely with over a dozen educational and technical institutions across Europe. Our responsibility was to take the pedagogical research and language-learning guidance provided by university partners and translate it into a diverse suite of mini-games, each focused on teaching key principles of early language development. This project required us to go above and beyond the usual call of game development, working in close collaboration with multiple sources to design and create compelling and effective learning games contained within an appealing world. The game was focus tested with various different age and learning groups throughout development, which provided inciteful feedback and allowed us to refine the our game designs to meet the needs of the target audience. Ultimately all of this dedication paid off as the game received an award from the Serious Games Society in the Digital Game Competition as well as receiving glowing reviews from the focus testers and the schools themselves.