Instructional Game - Lyrical Genius

The last entry in my series of instructional games is Lyrical Genius.  Learning a new language can be difficult, this game attempts to inject a little bit of fun into the process.  Players are asked to listen to a clip of a popular song and match words on the screen with the correct lyrics.

Lyrical Genius by John Parsell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Lyrical Genius
Challenge your friends to lyrical combat!
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Goal:​
Enhance reading and listening comprehension for English as a second language students.​

Objective:
Players will identify and match lyrics sung from popular songs to written words.​

Game Play:
Players will choose to play as a single player, challenge a friend, or another random player on the internet.  They'll select a genre of music or opt to play from a random selection.  Hints and instructions will display while the game loads.  Once the game has loaded, a timer will display counting down to the start of the song clip.  

When the music starts, players will have a limited amount of time to match the lyrics on the screen to what they hear in the clip.  Scoring will be affected by consecutive moves without an error.  

At the end of each round the score will be displayed and a winner announced.  If a player selected to play the single player option, they'll have to beat a pre-determined score based on the difficulty of the lyrics in each clip.  A leader board can display the scores of those who play the game. 

Suggested Components: 

• Touch interface: Touch, drag and drop
• Save/Load user interface
• Music genre user interface
• Leader board and ability to challenge online opponents in real time
• 2D rendering