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I'm not sure that I'd ever be able to memorize these all, let alone use them, but this game is a surprisingly fun way to try and learn.
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Pro Tip for my fellow old people: copy the symbols from the instruction screen into PAINT or similar so you can look at them. Because if you're like me you can't remember the first 5 squiggly lines, nevermind all 10 squiggly lines at once.
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I refuse to use my brain while gaming. It's full of Pokemon names, so Japanese characters won't fit. I just brute forced my way through.
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It's 2020 and this game is still great! I found it not too long ago, and have since learned all Hiragana and almost half of the Katakana. I have been using lots of other apps/websites (such as Duolingo, Tinycards, Learn Japanese to Survive...) but for me this has worked much better than anything else! And it's fun.
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damn level 23, 250 characteds, O_O, it's going so fast, I was at 237/250 and I had failed once, grrrr tough luck aiming for full 100%
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I actually learned quite a bit through this game. This is the most effective way i used to learn japanese alphabet so far. Thanks for creating this!
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Oh man, I never knew this was on Kong! Heck, you're the creator of Anti-Idle! It's nice to see such fruitful beginnings of game developers.
One thing I would like to say about this game is that you need to have very very fast fingers and mad typing skills... that I don't have, even though I already knew all my hiragana and most of my katakana before I stumbled upon this. Anyone who happens to read this: I wish you luck in your journey to Japanese mastery!
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Stumbled upon this, and japanese is a language I want to learn, since I'm in a computer science major, and the two most major places to code are japan and the U.S. (especially if I want to go into game design, which I do.)
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Also, in free play mode the most of my failures are 「ぢ」(di) and「づ」(du) and theirs youon, since those kana are rarely used, and reads same as 「じ」(ji) and「ず」(zu).
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Anyone else types 「sya」for「しゃ」、「jya」for「じゃ」、「cya」「ちゃ」? jya and cya was invalid at u-biq if you used romanji to answer those questions but those are my typing habit. since 「きゃ」was「k+ya=kya」, so 「しゃ」was「s+ya=sya」for me.
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Overall a very fun game, although a perfect score in the last couple levels seems more about mastery over your fingers than mastery over kana. Probably 90% of my streak losses have been because of things like misjudging the timing for pressing space/enter and not hitting the keys hard enough for the keypress to register. (The other 10% of failures have been primarily due to hesitation over ソ / ン and シ / ツ.)
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This is awesome, clear and makes the learning of hiragana super entertaining! I hope you got a good grade on that school project! Cheers from France
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The words from Zahid41 which have -11 rating says:「せいこう、このゲームはむずかしいですが、せいそうはたのしいことです。」（漢字：「成功、このゲームは難しいですが、清掃は楽しいことです」）
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The game is great, but i lost my progression twice and had to restart all over... It still not easy for me to unlock the second half of the adventure by doing 1,500,000 in freeplay but thanks god you though about this feature ! Anyway, this game is for me the best way to learn kana, i'll recommand this
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Hey, Tukkun. I suppose you could say that I'm an amateur game developer. You know, just like you ;). I currently use Game Maker: Studio for the games I make. What platform/programming language did you use for this game? And would you recommend them?
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As someone who is totally not a weeb, I often come here when I feel like I want to refresh my kana, which has happened a few times over the years. This time, I had a more competitive approach, with a focus on reaching or beating Tukkun's impossible Typing Defense and Obstacle Destroy high scores, so I don't think I'll be forgetting a lot of this stuff any time soon. When I feel masochistic enough, maybe I'll finally start focusing on kanji, but I think that kana and some grammar and vocabulary are enough for an illiterate totally-non-weeb like me, just so I can understand in what context mai waifus are calling me "baka"
It takes quite a lot of practice! I also find myself mistaking certain characters during my first 2 or so months of learning Japanese, but over time as I learned more vocabulary, grammar and stuff, I stopped making those mistakes. Perhaps if you stop focusing too much on writing the characters, you'll be able to improve your writing skills without even noticing?
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This was very interesting. I never thought anything like this would be on Kong, but for what it was it was nice to see that it was easy to start and pick up. I took five years of Japanese ( I am still bad at it ) Thevisuals if anything could be worked on, but it is a small niggle and overall a good game. I also did a video review of it here if anyone is interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOiCUiNf16Q
Thanks for your comment and review! :o Please understand that all the super awesome visuals in this game are intentional and I have no plans whatsoever to work on it. Thanks!