Duolingo · InteractiveAdventures
The Game inside the app.
Sound design & musicThe first original music for Duolingo’s first RPG.
Gameplay capture
Adventures is Duolingo's first and only RPG gaming experience inside the language courses. It's also the first time the language courses had original music. The task: take Duolingo music and make it sound like RPG game music.
Calming music that still felt like Duolingo. Keep things moving, but never give the learner anxiety. Leisurely, at a walking pace.
MUSIC · THEME
A loopable theme used across all Adventures levels with an celebratory ending stinger for when a lesson is completed.
Adventures Theme (Loop)
Leisurely, walking pace. Duolingo music that had to pass as game music.
Adventure Complete (Stinger)
The theme resolved. Plays when the lesson is completed successfully.
SOUND · INTERACTIVE
Interaction sounds for everything a player touches.
New task
Tap to move
Tap to learn
Speech bubble
Walking (loop)
Item acquired
THE PROMO
When the promo came round, the musical world of Adventures was already there. Same instruments, same world, just opened up. Fuller, more dynamic, somewhere to build to and follow the storytelling beats. Duolingo ran it again at DuoCon when they announced the feature.