What's the purpose?
Órion is a game that I created while I was in the university. It's a game to provide empathy between dislexic children and their parents. Our purpose was to make a person that is not dyslexic, to actually see how a dyslexic person see. Also known until the 1960s as word blindness, Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by reading below the expected level for one's age. So we made a research with dyslexic kids and teenagers, to know about their problems and many of them answered about the lack of empathy and patience while they're learning or reading, causing anxiety and embarrassment.
The story
In a very distant place on planet Earth, there is a huge colorful cloud, where the population of King Orion lives, a small being who has ruled his people for over 200 years. Orion inherited his father's kingdom, but his gift was always for hunting, a hobby he used to dedicate his free time to. The great cloud of Orion is invaded by slimy beings, in a strange way, and the little king is taken by force to a great unknown world, where he has to solve several riddles to open the portal that will take him to different adventures.
Analogy to dyslexia
Orion's story is related to dyslexia, as it addresses a new universe that opens up to the child (literacy), as something dazzling. However, the difficulty of the puzzles (reading, writing or calculating) will be seen as barriers, but they will be overcome with the help of Sirius (father, mother or guardian), who will help him to solve the game's challenges.
In the first level the players will identify a constellation and the shape of its respective animal and every lesson have a time to be solved.
In the second level, we have a writing task where the player willdrag the letters
to form words.
In the third level, we have a counting lesson. The spaceship will shot to
destroy the asteroids
The player can choose if they're a kid or an adult. The adults will play, reading as a dyslexic, with cropped words and mixed letters, to experience how difficult it can be for the children who has the disorder.
Here we have the main menu, with the play, settings, questions, save and log out buttons.
The player will unblock three phases.
In the illustration above, you can see a simulation of how a dyslexic person sees.
