Here you will find releases for an early build of Kanji Adventure, an edutainment turn-based RPG game designed to teach you Japanese in an entertaining way. The current alpha release includes a demonstration of the crafting system, including the gathering and crafting portions.
As I do not possess knowledge about the Japanese skill of yours, I will presume that you have no previous experience. As such I have prepared a cheatsheet including a list of all kanji used within the current build of the game. You can find it at the end of this document.
Click here to download the latest build.
The game requires a minimum resolution of 1920x1080. If the user is running Windows 10, they need to turn off scaling for the game to display properly.
- keyboard - writing kana in query mode
- enter - confirm query
- ←↑↓→ - optional camera control (battle only)
- mouse or compatible pointing device - everything else
Try your hand at seven unique quests available in this release. You will hunt rabbits, participate in a scavenger hunt, collect fruit and more.
You will often encounter gatherable resources on your journeys throughout the world. To gather the resource, move your mouse onto the tile and click. Once your character reaches the tile, a query will appear requiring you to match a kanji phrase with its pronunciation in hiragana as well as its English translation.
Once you have gathered enough resources, you will be able to craft articles of clothing and certain consumables. To do so, visit a crafting station which is denoted on the map.
You have four spells at your disposal, that you can mix and match during each turn.
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Whirl - a powerful spell that can only be used on nearby enemies
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Precision Shot - a long range spell that deals moderate damage
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Wind Gust - a powerful area-of-effect spell that deals damage to multiple enemies at a time
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Fiery Arrow - a directional area-of-effect spell that deals moderate damage to enemies located in a straight line between you and your target
In addition to these four spells, you also have an option to use consumable items during the battle portion of the game in order to replenish health.
Each time a spell is cast, the player will be asked to transcribe kanji character displayed to kana using their keyboard. Damage dealt by the spell depends on time spent answering the query. The player obtains a new kanji character every time they level up.
The following table lists all possible query phrases that can be encountered, their pronunciation in hiragana as well as approximations of romaji transcriptions. If the player is not familiar with hiragana, they can enter these letter by letter.
| Kanji | Hiragana | Romaji | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 日 | ひ | hi | day |
| 本 | ほん | honn | book |
| 人 | ひと | hito | person |
| 火 | ひ | hi | fire |
| 花 | はな | hana | flower |
| 口 | くち | kuchi | mouth |
| 月 | つき | tsuki | moon |
| 見る | みる | miru | to see |
| 見せる | みせる | miseru | to show |
| 山 | やま | yama | mountain |
| Kanji | Hiragana | Romaji | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 日本 | にほん | nihonn | Japan |
| 日本人 | にほんじん | nihonnjinn | Japanese person |
| 火よう日 | かようび | kayoubi | Tuesday |
| 火花 | ひばな | hibana | spark |
| 花火 | はなび | hanabi | fireworks |
| 人口 | じんこう | jinnkou | population |
| 月日 | つきひ | tsukihi | time |
| 月見 | つきみ | tsukimi | moon viewing |
| 花見 | はなみ | hanami | flower viewing |
| 火山 | かざん | kazann | volcano |
Thank you for trying out my game. If you have any feature ideas or have found a bug, feel free to open an issue here on GitHub or e-mail me at [email protected]. As always, everything you see here is a work in progress.
A game by Tomas Havlik and David Nguyen.