Over the last few months, Collider Cafe has been exploring an exciting question:
How do families feel about games and activities based around the evolution of human language?
To help shape our thinking, we ran a survey to better understand what parents and families value in educational activities and how people respond to the idea of a language evolution game. The response was incredibly helpful and gave us lots of insight into what excites people most.
One theme appeared again and again throughout the responses: curiosity.
People spoke about learning, discovery, communication, creativity, history, sounds, ideas and shared experiences. Many respondents were particularly interested in activities that encourage children to think for themselves, test ideas and explore big questions in fun and engaging ways.
The survey also reinforced something central to Collider Cafe:
Families are looking for experiences that combine learning with imagination and conversation.
We were especially encouraged by the number of people who connected the idea of language evolution with broader interests in science, history, anthropology and human development. The feedback has already helped us refine aspects of the game concept, including gameplay ideas, accessibility and how we present the experience to families.
The word cloud below captures some of the themes and words that appeared most often in the responses.
As always, this is only the beginning.
We are continuing to develop the game and explore new ideas around language, communication and human history. Alongside this, Collider Cafe is working on a number of new projects and collaborations focused on bringing people and ideas together through science, technology, creativity and curiosity.
More updates soon.
