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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2012, 02:08:47 pm »
Another screenshot :)

Here's some notes on accent marks, chickendude -- in your word list, you will need to use @ for an accent mark.  For example,

.db "n@oc" = .db "n'oc"

 But for the 16x16 tiles the accent mark can be in any blank tile you want.

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2012, 07:35:02 am »
Wow, when it is on "Spoon", is it showing a picture of a spoon o.o If so, that is awesome!

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #17 on: December 15, 2012, 07:55:58 am »
Wow, when it is on "Spoon", is it showing a picture of a spoon o.o If so, that is awesome!

Hmmm, I'm not seeing a picture of a spoon...

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #18 on: December 15, 2012, 08:37:06 am »
Oh, haha, now I see XD Still, it looked kind of like a spoon XD

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #19 on: December 20, 2012, 05:13:44 am »
More progress!
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* If you jump at a smiley face with the correct Russian word, you can no longer wait 2 seconds and collect the question mark that reappears.  Because now a question mark will not appear!  You will have to find another question mark.  I did this so that the player will have to keep going all over the map to complete all 7 questions, just like in the original Word Rescue.
* Fixed a couple of bugs

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2012, 12:28:11 am »
New screenshot!  This is mostly bug fixes.  For debugging purposes I made it so I couldn't die :)

That's 14 levels done!  My goal for a release is 30.
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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #21 on: December 25, 2012, 03:44:28 pm »
Good news!  Japanese, Chinese, etc. characters will be 100% supported, including for bonus words.  However, if you want that many characters to be supported, you will need a 3rd application page (right now Slova uses 2 pages)

I've finished the drafts of all 30 levels, so now I need to work on polishing them.  Some of you may be pleased to know that level 29 will have a boss -- the buildup to Level 30 was so epic, I couldn't resist adding a boss!

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #22 on: December 25, 2012, 03:56:16 pm »
Nice! I cant wait untill japanese characters are added
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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #23 on: December 25, 2012, 04:04:23 pm »
Nice! I cant wait untill japanese characters are added


Btw, jus in case you didn't know, I'm just adding support for Japanese characters.  Someone else would need to create the font :D
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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #24 on: December 25, 2012, 05:18:05 pm »
I still don't really get how you learn a language (programming?) while playing this...

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #25 on: December 26, 2012, 01:03:37 am »
I still don't really get how you learn a language (programming?) while playing this...

This is for learning vocabulary from other 'spoken' languages, such as Spanish and French.  Sure, you don't learn grammer, but some people (like myself) have trouble remembering vocabulary.  Check out the first post :D

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #26 on: December 26, 2012, 01:05:34 am »
Oh, now i get it >.>
Thanks a lot ^^

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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #27 on: December 28, 2012, 05:42:31 pm »
I could defenitally help with a hiragana font, I already have an 8x8 one, but if I can get a biggerr resolution that would be great
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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #28 on: December 30, 2012, 06:36:46 am »
Because Slova is supposed to be an educational game -- a fun one, but an educational one nonetheless -- I'm adding "shields" to the game.  You can hit gruzzles up to 4 times without dying in a level.


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Re: Slova -- A language-learning game
« Reply #29 on: December 31, 2012, 01:30:17 am »
I'm still amazed at the graphics.....
Awesome work :D

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