Gaming
The games cited below contain conlangs (contained in brackets) as part of play. Where available, links to either rules or information on the Internet are provided. This section is divided into two parts. The first includes games where conlangs play a part in the verisimilitude of the created world in which the game takes place. The second involves games where the act of creating a language is the game.
Games Where Conlangs Are Incorporated
- GUST's Ar tonelico series
- [Hymmnos, Ar Ciela]
- The language of the Ar tonelico series of videogames was created by Akira Tsuchiya. There are a number of good websites for information on the languages: Omniglot, The Hymmnoserver, and the Hymmnos article at Conlang Wikia.
- Shazrad: City of Veils (PBeM (Play-By-E-Mail) game)
- [Drakash, Sokarese]
- www.cityofveils.com/pbem/introduction.phtml
- Has a good language page at www.cityofveils.com/pbem/languages.phtml which covers Drakash and Sokarese. Gives guidelines for constructing names (phonemes, syllabic structure, and general "sound").
- Tékumel
- [Tsolyáni]
- Tsolyáni is the conlang creation of Dr. M.A.R. Barker for use in his conworld Tékumel. A good web site to see the depth with which Dr. Barker imbued his world is www.tekumel.com. Professor M.A.R. Barker is a retired professor of linguistics and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Also has books and a game Empire of the Petal Throne. Tékumel has been called the Cadillac of RPGs (role-playing games). A good web site for the language of Tsolyáni itself is at terengo.tdonnelly.org/tsoldata.html.
- Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series
- [Hylian]
- www.kasuto.net/language.php?main=language/language.html.
- Web site includes grammar, fonts, history, etc.
- Another website on Hylian is at the Zeldapedia: zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Hylian_Language
- Cyan World's MYST series
- [D'ni]
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27ni_language
- The Wikipedia site is a good place for info on the Déni language.
- Origin's Ultima Online computer game
- [Gargish]
- martin.brenner.de/ultima/
- Gargish Dragon's Ultima Page is excellent introduction to the language, including a downloadable font and dictionary. Gargish is the language of the Gargoyles in the computer game series: www.uoherald.com/news/.
- FanPro's Shadowrun role playing game
- [Sperethiel]
- ancientfiles.dumpshock.com/Sperethiel_Dictionary.htm
- Uncle Ancient's Sperethiel Dictionary gives a good overview of the language. Information on the game itself is available at www.shadowrunrpg.com.
- Square Enix's Final Fantasy X
- [Al Bhed]
- Although not actually a conlang but a substitution cipher, Al Bhed is employed like a conlang within the game.
- Mythic Entertainment's Warhammer
- [Eltharin, Khazalid]
- The Gostak
- www.wurb.com/if/game/1670
- An award-winning interactive fiction game/puzzle created by Carl Muckenhoupt. The title comes from the phrase the gostak distims the doshes coined by Andrew Ingraham in 1903 (quoted by Ogden and Richards in The Meaning of Meaning).
Games Where Conlanging (in the Widest Sense) Is Part of the Play
- Glossotechnia
- bellsouthpwp.net/j/i/jimhenry1973/conlang/glossotechnia.html
- Jim Henry's imaginative card game where players create a language during play. First discussed (and test played) at the 2nd Language Creation Conference.
- Make-A-Lang Card Game
- makealang.blogspot.com/search?q=game
- Matt Haupt's card game inspired by Jim Henry's Glossotechnia
- Verbotomy
- www.verbotomy.com
- James Gang's create-a-word online game.
- Tork: Can You Torque The Talk?
- www.abc.net.au/gameon/tork/default.htm
- The player crash lands on a distant planet and must learn the native alien's tongue to get his or her ship repaired.