PyTales
Overview

All projects

Three project strands and an archive: learning games and tools in PyTales, applications for inclusion in SensAble, and the AI harness Lora.

Play The Lost Drachma

PyTales

Learning games for history lessons with the doctoral project “Die verlorene Drachme” at the centre – plus a roguelike and creative tools.

School version 3.0Educational visual novel

The Lost Drachma

A visual novel on ancient Greece for Year 5 history lessons (in German) – research prototype of a doctoral thesis at TU Dresden.

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Test versionHistorical card duel

Aeterna

An offline card duel for Android: 416 cards, 22 heroines and heroes from the Saxon history curriculum (Years 5–7) and a campaign with 22 missions.

  • Android
Pixel Edition 1.4.3Roguelike card game

Khaibit

A turn-based roguelike card game in pixel-art style: through the twelve gates of the Egyptian underworld to recover a stolen heart.

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5 toolsCreative tools

Tools for pixel art and music

PixelDraft, PixelArt Studio, Voxelwerk, LofiKasette and PixelGroove+ – editors for maps, pixel graphics, voxel models and music.

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SensAble

Applications that make barriers tangible and support inclusive teaching – and the seminar in which they are used.

Version 1.0.2Vision simulation

SensAble Vision

Uses the camera to simulate in real time how people with visual impairments perceive the world – as an Android app, in the browser and on the Meta Quest 3.

  • Android
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  • Meta Quest 3
Meta Quest 3VR web app

Inclusive Classroom VR

The inclusion teaching lab from other perspectives: in a wheelchair, with a visual impairment, with sensory overload or hearing loss – with stations, assistive aids and a room check in mixed reality.

  • Meta Quest 3
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TU DresdenTeacher-training seminar EW-SEGY-BW4

Seminar “Designing for inclusion”

The digital learning environment for the teacher-training seminar: 14 sessions as learning paths, six simulations and a portfolio in which students develop accessible learning modules based on Universal Design for Learning.

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Lora

AI assistant with tools for documents, literature and transcription – and two models of its own on the device.

Chat demoAI assistant with its own harness

Lora

AI assistant for research, teaching and administration: pseudonymisation on the device, tools with approval, two small models of its own. Shown here as a demo without any AI connection.

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Archive

Completed projects: Recorded History (2022) and the historical glossary (in German).

CompletedLearning platform (2022)

Recorded History

State-examination project with learning modules on video games: ancient Greece, the First World War, a video series and a historical glossary (in German).

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