A 3D open world on Yugambeh Country

Goomp Goomp Country©

Not flashcards: a whole world. Fly as Goomp Goomp across more than forty places, help twenty-seven birds remember who they are, and learn Yugambeh by hearing it, saying it and using it, until it stays.

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Fly through Yugambeh Country
43places: 31 to fly between, 12 to go inside
27birds to help remember
30animals across Country
83jobs from the birds
239Yugambeh words and phrases
5stages, from Nyamul to Guruman

A language engine, inside a living world

Every part of Goomp Goomp Country is built around Yugambeh. The birds, the jobs, the places and the story all carry the language, and underneath them the game keeps track of every word each player knows, and brings it back at just the right time.

  1. Meet

    New words arrive a few at a time from the birds you help, never more than you can keep.

  2. Hear and say

    Hear words spoken by a Yugambeh speaker, then tap the microphone and say them yourself.

  3. Use

    The birds start speaking your words in Yugambeh, and English fades. Build sentences with the words you know.

  4. Recall

    Words come back to practise: with English first, then heard only, then typed from memory.

  5. Keep

    Practice returns after days, weeks and months. Leave a word too long and wangal, the Forgetting, comes for it.

A whole world to explore

Rainforest gullies, gum-tree ridges, lagoons, beaches and paddocks, each with its own birds, animals, plants and light. Here are a few of them.

The Great TreeGoomp Goomp’s home, and where every journey starts
Fig Tree GullyRainforest, ferns and fallen logs at dusk
The LagoonReeds and clear water
The BeachDunes and coastal grass at sunset
Gum Tree RidgeWhere the eagle rides the wind
Rainforest GullyTall trunks and hanging vines at night
Open PaddockGrass and gum trees at sunrise

The birds have forgotten

Across Country, the birds have lost their names and their colours, and they have turned grey. Goomp Goomp, the Southern Boobook Owl, sets out from his Great Tree to help them remember.

Every bird has jobs for you: find something, visit somewhere, clear away the sandflies. Help a bird and it remembers its name and colours, and you learn its words. Help enough and you can even fly as that bird.

Garang calls the birds together at the Jaligam, the great tree.

What is inside

An open world that grows with the player, built around the Yugambeh language from the ground up.

Explore Yugambeh Country

More than 30 places to explore

From the Great Tree to Rainforest Gully, Gum Tree Ridge, the Lagoon and the Beach, each with its own birds, plants and weather, and more to go inside: burrows, hollows and a giant fig.

Fly as the birds

Every bird you help can be flown, each with its own power: the eagle soars highest, others float on water, run fast or slip past the sandflies. Tap to take off, Goomp Goomp holds his height, and a Land button brings him down.

Missions and moves

Fetch, visit and clear jobs from every bird. Learn the peck, the whirlwind and the tail whack to see off sandfly swarms, and face jinir-jinir in a final battle in three parts.

Your migany

Goomp Goomp’s tree hollow, in honey wood, grows into rooms to fill with keepsakes from your travels, each named in Yugambeh, and your Book, Remember and Pouch close at hand.

Goomp Goomp has dug up a yam: “Wulimani wahlu dam! You found a yam!”

Gather, fish and follow trails

Gather bush food, spear fish and follow carved stones on treasure trails, learning the words for each along the way.

The Paint your form screen, with Goomp Goomp in red ochre and white clay

Paint your form

Gather natural pigments around Country, like gudjing (red ochre) and dalang (white clay), and paint Goomp Goomp’s feathers.

The star game at Mother Emu’s Fire: find the star for wash

Play among the stars

Catch word-stars by their meaning, their sound or their Gibamyeri carving, and build a constellation in the shape of your bird. No timer, no lives.

Watch the colour come back

When you help a bird, the words you taught it spiral in and its colours flood back from head to tail.

Learn Yugambeh as you play

English fades into Yugambeh

Birds speak English at first. As you learn each word, it switches into Yugambeh in their speech, so the language grows around you.

A real Yugambeh voice

Yugambeh words recorded by a Yugambeh speaker and linguist, so children hear them said properly. More are added as they are recorded.

Say it

Tap the microphone beside a new word, say it, then hear yourself next to a Yugambeh speaker.

The New words card, with a microphone under each word

A few words at a time

New words come a few each day, and only while the ones you already know are kept up. Gentle, Normal and Tough each set their own pace.

Hear it, then spell it

As a word settles in, you hear it without seeing it, then type it yourself. Practice comes back after days, weeks and months, so the words stay.

Make a sentence

Put Yugambeh words in order to build real sentences, using only the words you already know.

Read and write Gibamyeri

Practise the Gibamyeri script at a tree beside the Great Tree: find the pieces, read a word, write one by its syllables.

Glowing violet wisps over a paddock gone grey

Wangal, the Forgetting

Leave your words too long and the colour drains from the world. Glowing violet wisps come looking for Goomp Goomp, each one a word slipping away. Catch them and name them to bring the colour back.

Nyamul to Guruman

Grow through the same five stages as our reading levels, with Fly Home branch-hopping practice built in.

Watch a word move in

Tap through the stages to see how a bird’s speech changes as a player learns. Words come back at just the right time, so they stick.

Made for every player

A gentle start

A narrator reads the way through the first night, one step at a time, and never talks over the birds. Garang speaks his own lines, and the opening story is read aloud.

Open Paddock in Very Low and Ultra graphics, side by side

Runs on almost anything

One Graphics setting, from Very Low for older phones and school laptops up to Ultra for strong computers. The game chooses for you, and you can change it any time.

Explore Country

More than thirty places linked by paths through Yugambeh Country, each with its own birds and animals, and more to go inside: burrows, hollows and a giant fig. Here are some of them; tap a place to send Goomp Goomp there.

The Great TreeMoonlit ClearingRainforest GullyThe ScrubThe Forest FloorOpen PaddockWoodland EdgeGum Tree RidgeThe LagoonThe Beach
The Great TreeGoomp Goomp’s Great Tree, with his hollow to arrange.
Meet the animals of every place.
Like the booklet in the game box

The Gameplay Book

Remember the little booklet that came with a new game? Goomp Goomp Country has one too. Twenty-eight pages of the story, the characters, the controls, the final battle, why words come back, how words move into Yugambeh, the places of Country and the words to know, with pictures from the game.

  • The story of the Biran
  • Controls for every device
  • A map of Country
  • Every bird and animal
  • How memory works
  • Tips for wangal
  • 24 words to tick off
  • A journey checklist
  • Nan Joan and the Caravan Park
  • About the creator
  • A page for parents and teachers
Download (PDF, 7.6 MB)

Play at home

Learn Yugambeh together, one word at a time. Cancel any time.

Individual

One player

$49per year

  • The whole game, on your devices
  • One player profile
  • Words spoken by a Yugambeh speaker
Best for families

Family

Your whole household

$89per year

  • Up to 6 player profiles
  • Everyone’s progress kept separately
  • One sign-in, then a family code for each child’s device

Community Access

Yugambeh and Yuggera families

FreeOur way of giving back

  • Everything in the Family plan
  • For Traditional Owners and families raising their children
Community Access

Not sure yet? Play free for 14 days on one device, with just a first name. No account needed. Start playing

Read the Individual and Family Subscription Terms. You’ll need a free account to subscribe.

For schools

A school subscription gives every student their own progress, and gives teachers a panel to see how the class is going, choose focus words, set how many new words a day the class gets, and spot who needs a hand.

Made for school devicesRuns on typical Queensland school laptops and tablets, with a Very Low graphics setting for older devices.

Safe by designNo open chat, no ads and no in-game purchases.

Class codesStudents join their class with a simple code; no email addresses needed.

Progress you can seeWords learned, stages reached and words slipping away, for each student.

The teacher’s panel

Goomp Goomp Country is part of the Yugambeh Language Program: workbooks from Early Years to Year 10, Teacher’s Editions, Start Books and a Yugambeh language mentor, all aligned to the Australian Curriculum.

See the program for schools The teacher’s panel

Language centres and school networks: talk to us about a program-wide licence.

Cover of the Goomp Goomp Country cultural protocols

Our cultural protocols

Goomp Goomp Country© shares Yugambeh language, stories and knowledge with children, so we have written down how we do that respectfully, accurately and with community consent.

The protocols cover where every word comes from, how voices are recorded, the Gibamyeri script, which stories can be shared, how animals and Country are shown, children’s privacy, and how anyone can raise a concern.

  • Words traced to their sources
  • Stories shared only with permission
  • No sacred or restricted knowledge
  • Safe for children and schools
Download the protocols (PDF, 2 MB)

Download Goomp Goomp Country©

For computers, phones and tablets. Get the app and start exploring Yugambeh Country.

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Get Goomp Goomp Country

On a computer, a tablet or a phone. Sign in once on each device, and your progress comes with you. In your browser, signing in on the website signs you in to the game too.

Computer

Windows

The full program for Windows 10 and 11. It opens full screen and runs smoothly on most computers.

Download for Windows
If Windows shows a warning

Windows may say “Windows protected your PC” for new programs. Choose More info, then Run anyway. Our installer is safe; Windows shows this until a program becomes well known.

Tablet and phone

Android

The Android app, for Android phones and tablets.

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How to install it
  1. Open this page on your Android device and tap Download for Android.
  2. Open the downloaded file. If asked, allow your browser to install unknown apps.
  3. Tap Install, then Open.

Any browser

Mac, Chromebook, iPad and iPhone

Play straight away in Chrome, Edge or Safari. Nothing to download.

Play nowgoompgoomp.com/play
Keep it like an app

iPad or iPhone: open goompgoomp.com/play in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
Computer: in Chrome or Edge, open the game and press Install.

You’ll need a way in

New here? Play free for 14 days with just a first name. After that, a class code from your teacher, a family code, or an account with a plan. See the plans, or Community Access for Yugambeh and Yuggera families.

Your progress follows you

Sign in on each device and carry on where you left off. No internet? Keep playing for up to a week.

For schools

School IT teams will find the web addresses to allow in our Privacy and Consent Pack. Talk to us about installing on school devices.

Get Goomp Goomp Country©

Choose how you would like to play.

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Install the app

Opens the game, then adds it to your device so it opens like any other app, even without internet.

  • Computer: in Chrome or Edge, press Install when it pops up.
  • iPad or iPhone: tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  • Android: tap Install when it pops up.
Computers, phones and tabletsOpen and install

Download for school computers

A ZIP of the whole game for computers with patchy internet, or for school IT to set up. Unzip it, then double-click start-windows.bat on Windows or start-mac-linux.sh on a Mac. It needs Python or Node.js, which most school computers already have.

Download ZIP