I created a gamified education app to help portuguese speakers continue their english studies during quarantine

Hi folks, I am a software engineer from Brazil and I have been studying gamification for some time. My mom is an english teacher and because of the Covid-19 outbreak, their students couldn't have classes with her anymore ( they use to come to our house to have private classes ).

They were also a little bit reluctant to take classes from Skype or Zoom ( I don't know why, maybe it is because they are from a small town from the countryside and are used to have more personal interaction in classes ).

My mom told me that most of their students want to study abroad and they like games and cartoons. I did some research and benchmark with learning apps like Duolingo and Primer and we decided to create this application based on storytelling, micro-learning and interactive game elements ( quizzes and word search ).

It is a web based application where they can play on the computer, tablet or mobile phone. In the application we tell a story of a boy who is studying english because he applied to study in a school in England. He receives a call telling him that in order to get accepted he will have to perform a test. He gets very excited but also a little bit anxious about the test.

The story follows on with a friend helping him to study and achieve his dream of studying abroad. We use cards with illustration to tell the story while we also teach concepts like simple past and present continuous. We also introduce game elements during the story.

In the end of each topic we also have a test in the form of a quiz with random questions where the user gains more points the faster he answers the questions. I know that there aren't many portuguese speakers here but if any of you is interested in taking a look at the application, you only need to create an account using email and password.

Link for playing the game: https://www.gamific.app/app/enter/-celsaraceni

We have finished the first topic ( Simple Present and Present Continuous ) and we will add more content as we improve the application. Any feedback, suggestion or comment is welcome =)

Thanks