18 Bardwell Road, St Clare's, Oxford, UK
Word Invaders takes a light-hearted approach to accuracy practice, testing your vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation skills in a fun arcade-style game.
This game replicates a famous arcade game, where hostile space ships must be destroyed before they get to Earth, but in this case the hostile ships are words, in groups of four. Three are similar; one is the odd one out. Users must aim their rockets at the incorrect or different word and destroy it, thereby gaining points.
The program has six levels, ranging from false beginner to advanced, and five groups of words with a total of 2400 lexical items.
Users are given feedback on their mistakes after the game is over, so they can learn from them.
The program is fully authorable, with complete flexibility to add to the existing word store or produce personalised and class-specific word groups, so that teachers can create large word files for any of their general English or ESP syllabuses. The size of the files is only limited by the size of the computer hard disk upon which the files are stored.