Talking arms and hands

Our goal is to make it fun for every kid on the planet to learn at least one sign language. To do this we want to make it as easy as possible for animators such as yourselves using TGE to use our arms and hands on your characters so that in the field of play team members can speak sign language to each other to communicate team information or plans.

What is the best way you can suggest that we package our arms/hands engine to make it easy for you to pick up and use these smart appendages?

Our sign database will have every sign language of the world that a volunteer from that language group wants to enter. Our primary use of the hands/arms is to help with a world wide literacy program we have developed. The hands/arms will help deaf kids to learn to read their host country text. The lexicon covers 1700 meanings. And the lexicon will have exact cross reference between every meaning for every text language that a volunteer will enter. So if a player types in a message in Vietnamese the hands of his avatar will sign that message in any sign language the player chooses. e.g. Chinese Sign language. There are more than 114 sign languages in the world. And our Unicode lexicon can accept 5000+ different text languages that kids could type their messages in. Don't worry developers... you can make precanned messages in English or whatever is your native language and these canned messages will be echoed to the senders screen in his language of choice and correctly will find the correct hand signs to string together to say the sentence. We will take care of all that in our engine.

Our secondary goal is to make sign language ubiquitous... which means we want kids to see sign language everywhere so they can learn it more easily. If we can make it easy for game developers to include the signing function for free into their creations then kids in time will see the characters in their favorite games start to be able to speak with hand signs. This way we hope to help more of the general public at a young age to learn how to communicate with the deaf around them. And actually feel supercharged to exercise their newly acquired skills.

By way of application...
Think in terms for example how the Americans we so glad to have their own Native American Indians during WW2 to be the radio operators because the opposition did not know that language. The radio operators could speak freely over the radio and the enemy could not understand them.

In a like manner kids from various places around the world that have learned a certain sign language could team together for play and could visually communicate with one another using sign language and understand each other even though neither team member knows each others native spoken language. The knowledge of the hand sign language is their common bridge of communication.

One team member could watch through binoculars as a fellow team member communicates location for artillery coordinates, or passes plands to rendezvous at the tall hill, beyond the lake.

Or maybe the when the priest tries to convert an enemy soldier he says some riddle with hand language and if the soldier can answer the riddle with Yes or No correctly then he won't get converted and escapes. I don't know ... you will think of ways to use this communication tool and never want to go back. If it's easy enough to incorporate.