So. You’re grinding away grindtastically in your favourite grind-friendly MMO (Grind of Grindcraft: The Grindening) when suddenly another player strolls up to you and pressed the big “trade request” button floating over your head. “Excellent,” you think. “I have this +94 chest armour of doomblack that I’ve scrounged together, so maybe I can ask for a few cool spells in exchange.”
Oops. Crisis strikes: your new acquaintance speaks a bunch of gibberish that you cannot understand.
With global game audiences being the way they are nowadays, it seems to make sense to implement a fun and creative solution to this ever-present language barrier. GameCareerGuide.com is challenging readers to do just that: in two weeks, they want to see designs for a fun and engaging communication system for MMOs that doesn’t rely on typing out words.
More details on the challenge page.