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Learn with Antura: an open educational game and framework ​

Learn with Antura

Learn with Antura is an open source educational game ecosystem designed to support learning through exploration, interaction, and narrative.

It started in 2016 as a humanitarian initiative for children in fragile contexts and has grown into a modular platform that can be adapted with partners to new countries, languages, curricula, and cultural contexts.

This page documents both the playable game and the underlying Discover Framework.

At a glance ​

  • Audience: primarily children aged 6–12 (usable in class or at home)
  • Format: short sessions (typical quests 5–15 minutes) + teacher-led debrief activities
  • Platforms: cross-platform by design
  • Offline-first: after installation, the game does not require internet to play
  • Open source and community driven development
  • Modular: content can evolve without rewriting the core systems

For educators and classroom usage, start from the Manual.

What makes Antura different ​

Learning through exploration ​

Antura embeds learning inside a playful 3D world. Children progress by exploring places, talking to characters, solving tasks, and collecting knowledge.

Transparent, reviewable content ​

Everything that exists in the game also exists in a browsable form on the public website: quests, knowledge cards, dialogues, and translations.

This supports partner workflows such as pedagogical review, linguistic validation, and cultural adaptation without requiring Unity builds.

Proven impact and a long-term open approach ​

Antura has been evaluated in real-world contexts and improved over time based on external feedback.

Two learning modules ​

Antura currently supports two complementary modules:

Learn Languages ​

A collection of mini-games focused on letters, words, and vocabulary.

Discover Cultures ​

Short quest-based adventures where children learn culture (and language) through stories, tasks, and collected knowledge cards.

Key features ​

If you are new to the project, these are the main gameplay and content systems you will encounter:

  • Worlds & locations: children explore immersive 3D environments (from abstract scenes to real places).
  • Quests: structured missions that combine narrative, exploration, and tasks.
  • Activities: short reusable mini-games (quizzes, puzzles, memory, ordering, etc.) embedded in quests or playable from the Book.
  • Knowledge Cards & Topics: “atoms of knowledge” collected in quests and connected into topics/graphs for review and classroom discussion.
  • Characters & dialogue: NPC-driven interactions with multilingual subtitles and voice.
  • Teacher/classroom support: classroom setup, short-session format, and post-session debrief activities.

For the detailed breakdown (with screenshots), see Discover features and the educator workflow in the Classroom guide.

Browse real game content ​

All educational content is published in a browsable form and kept in sync with the latest game data builds.

Developer-, designer-, and educator-friendly workflow ​

A key characteristic of the Antura ecosystem is that game content is transparent and reviewable outside the game. This supports a workflow that is unusual in educational games: educators and partners can inspect what will ship (quests, dialogue, topics/cards, activities, translations) without requiring Unity builds.

In practice this enables:

  • Content review & feedback: review dialogue scripts and translations, validate terminology/tone, and iterate on educational materials earlier in the cycle.
  • Data-driven content production: the Discover Framework keeps core systems separate from narrative/educational content, so new quests and learning paths can be designed and iterated primarily as content/data.
  • Teacher and classroom orientation: teachers can preview materials, and institutions can audit alignment with curricula before classroom use.

For partner-facing creation workflows, see the Quest design guide.

The Discover Framework ​

The Discover Framework is the reusable backbone that powers the game. It is designed so partners can build new learning experiences without rebuilding an entire game.

Core building blocks:

  • Worlds & locations: exploratory 3D environments
  • Quests: narrative missions with tasks and progression
  • Activities: reusable mini-games embedded in quests or played from the Book
  • Knowledge Cards & Topics: atomic pieces of content connected as a knowledge graph
  • Characters & dialogue: guided interactions, multilingual text/audio

For detailed design and creation workflows, see Quest design guide.

Why this matters for Erasmus+ partners ​

Antura is designed for multi-stakeholder collaboration. A typical Erasmus+ partnership can combine:

  • Educators & schools: co-design topics/quests aligned to curricula, run classroom pilots, produce teacher materials and training
  • Researchers: evaluate learning outcomes and classroom usability, iterate based on evidence
  • Developers & studios: extend the framework, create new activities, improve tooling and pipelines
  • Institutions & funders: support a sustainable, reusable, open core that can be replicated across countries

Typical work packages (example structure):

  • WP1 Management & coordination: consortium governance, planning, reporting
  • WP2 Pedagogical co-design: curriculum alignment, content guidelines, teacher toolkit draft
  • WP3 Content production: topics/cards/dialogues + localization and cultural validation
  • WP4 Technical development: framework improvements, new quests/activities, tooling and pipelines
  • WP5 Pilots & evaluation: classroom pilots, data collection, iteration cycles
  • WP6 Dissemination & sustainability: communication, replication guidelines, long-term maintenance plan

To learn about the current Erasmus+ project context, see Erasmus+.

Open source and licensing ​

The project is open source to enable transparency, sustainability, and institutional reuse.

Get started ​

If you want to partner with us, see Contact.