Changes, newest first
What's new
Changes land in the development build first and reach the beta with its next build. The Patwa is still a draft awaiting review by Jamaican speakers.
Something to do every day of the week
- Days 2 to 7 each ask something new of you: check a price at the market, carry a cake without a wrong turn, remember who wanted which ice cream, keep still for a doctor bird, order and pay for fish, and play dominoes.
- When someone tells you where to go, the marker stays hidden. Walk up to the wrong person and they point you the right way. A wrong answer gets a reaction and another go, never a fail screen.
- The First Day works the same way: follow what Miss Hyacinth and Maas Bertie tell you.
A warmer, busier Kingston
- Painted afternoon light by default, with soft shadows under people and a passing shower.
- A new street kit: shop-houses with louvered windows and burglar bars, piazza blocks, yards with breeze-block walls, zinc fences, light poles with wires, a route taxi, a city bus and hand-painted signs.
- The six main characters are rebuilt, with faces that change, mouths that move with their lines, and gestures.
Practice and reasons to come back
- One notebook for practice. Phrases you said and heard in the story come back for review alongside the phrasebook.
- Optional speaking practice on Android for phrases that have a human recording, compared on your phone. Nothing is uploaded.
- Days come in three parts, each with a good place to stop. Story days count toward your streak, and the end of a day tells you who is expecting you tomorrow.
- A placeholder score for the week, made in code: one riddim for each day.
- Anonymous play data and crash reports help fix problems. You can turn them off in Settings, under Privacy and support.
This website
- New pictures from the current build, a short film of the First Day street, and a scene you can try in your browser.
- One install button for your phone, phrase pages that show the line each phrase comes from, and this page.
The Kingston overhaul
- A lived-in First Day street: a cook shop, produce stalls, taxi bays, Miss Merlene’s gate and lock-up shops.
- Days 2 to 7 got hills on the horizon, trees, a clock tower, a market hall, Devon House and a seaside, and a lit night on Day 7.
- People turn to look at you and wave, stand in groups and remember how you treated them.
- Errands with choices on Days 3 to 7, and 26 street scenes to overhear.
- The First Day draws about half as much as before, so it runs on smaller phones.
Get it on iPhone Get it on Android Get the app on your phone In beta on iPhone and Android