dance of a translator

TLDR design deconstruction

Simon-Says with novel controls and aesthetics.

Premise

You work at a firm whose job it is to translate English into an alien tongue. The catch is that their language is entirely gestural. You must therefore learn the gestures with corresponding English meanings, and move your avatar accordingly to speak the tongue. You will be given a phrase to translate, begin recording, start moving into each pose (hold each gesture for about a second!), then stop the recording and you will be told if you successfully translated the phrase and if not, what you ended up saying instead.

Further Reading

here's a longer form process journal