Alfa E Betto

Alfa E Betto is an educational 2D top-down space shooter game built with Godot and C#. Players navigate a spacecraft and solve language challenges through shooter-style encounters.

Gameplay

Players engage enemies that represent linguistic challenges around words, letters, grammar rules, spelling, and language-specific knowledge.

Educational Mechanics

• Language modules include German, English, Portuguese, and Japanese. Spanish ideas have also been considered.
• Diacritics: identify or shoot words with correct accentuation.
• Spelling rules: choose correct spellings such as s vs z, x vs ch, and related rule groups.
• German grammar: identify noun genders and article/case forms.
• Japanese kana: practice Hiragana/Katakana recognition and romaji mappings.
• Future ideas include verb forms, misspelled-word recognition, and contextual word meanings.

Game Features

• Top-down space-shooter movement and projectiles.
• Player health, shield, weapon cooldowns, coins, gems, health pickups, and shield boosters.
• Regular shooter enemies plus word-based enemies, answer meteors, and special linguistic enemies.
• Dynamic spawning by language and enemy type.
• UI for main menu, HUD, pause, game over, and rule unlock/progression screens.
• Performance tracking for player accuracy with words and rules.

Project

• Godot target: 4.6.x, C#/.NET, GL Compatibility renderer.
• Main scene: res://main.tscn.
• Autoload: Global="*res://global.tscn".
• Solution: Alfa E Betto.sln.
• Main game project: Alfa E Betto.csproj.
• Word/data library: WordProcessing/WordProcessing.csproj.
• Tests: WordProcessing.Test/WordProcessing.Test.csproj.

Validate

dotnet build "Alfa E Betto.sln"
dotnet test "Alfa E Betto.sln" --no-restore

For editor/runtime changes, open this checkout in Godot 4.6.x .NET and validate through Godot AI MCP only after editor_state reports project name Alfa E Betto.

Future Development

• Bosses with shields requiring specific linguistic input to disable.
• Multi-part enemies that must be targeted in a specific order.
• Matching challenges with options in columns.
• Swarm encounters where only misspelled or incorrect targets should be shot.
• Trap/path choices based on linguistic correctness.
• Deeper German, English, and Spanish learning modules.
• Dynamic difficulty scaling and progression suggestions based on player performance.