Our first concept for Rollama was to combine grammar, punctuation and spelling questions with something like Pokémon to make it fun and motivating to practise regularly.
We could have gone with 'SPAG Superheroes' or 'Grammar Gym', but we wanted something unique and bit unusual.
We brainstormed ideas for a digital animal for users to look after. After a few ideas like yaks, crows and even dragons, we settled on llamas. Who doesn't like llamas (and alpacas!). They're cute and funny, and not harmful to anything.
We also wanted to include a word to show that our questions pop up randomly, so you can't just learn a list of answers – you need to understand a learning objective and apply it. So again we thought of words like shuffle, jumble, snap... Eventually we landed on roll (like rolling a dice). Our first thought was to use 'llamaroll' (and we actually started out with llamaroll.com!).
In the end, we decided to make the name a bit more mysterious, so we swapped it around to Rollama, and the rest is history!
