🦊 Tobi's learning to speak

Communication by symbols

Symbols, pictograms or emojis?

Many games communicate ideas to you by words. English, German, Italian or Slovak, doesn't matter they are still words which need to be translated if the game wants to have broader player base. Symbols (pictograms or emojis) however are a universal language. They can be "read" instantly and when put together one after the other they can form simple sentences. That's why I decided to have such a communication system in the game.

Complexity from simplicity

I design every single emoji to be as simple and as straight forward as possible so that it is easy and fast to understand. When these simple emojis are placed in sequence one after the other with defined set of simple sentence rules, they can communicate more complex ideas.

Just take a look on this video and try it for yourself if you can understand what this fox is saying: