Hi everyone! My name is Rob Howland and I am the creator of 三次元辞典 (SanjigenJiten or "SanJiten" for short).

Here is our recently launched Kickstarter - kindly help us spread the word:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1220951156/sanjiten

Here is the official website:
http://sanjigenjiten.com/

Here is the download page:
http://sanjigenjiten.com/?page_id=9


Hope you like it and sorry about the confusion!

-Rob Howland,

Looks awesome. I want to try it out but I don't have Windows.

Best to download from the official page:

http://sanjigenjiten.com/?page_id=9

There's also a Mac version on there

Anyone tried this yet?

I downloaded the alpha from the website and had a play with with the learning Chinese mode.

Nice graphics/polish, exploring is pretty fun, and it had quite a few words i'd never encountered before (posters, skateboard, clothes hangers). However, I'm not sure how you're meant to actually learn the words, as once i moved to "time attack" mode i couldn't remember which item was which and the game gave me no help (actually the camera controls hindered me somewhat).

Also weird they advertise funding through kickstarter, though it's meant to be an education-funded project?

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There's one type of 2D games on iOS with very nice art (usually) that would be very interesting, I don't know what they're called: you have a "bric à brac" and you look into the picture to find the items. Many many random things without the need for fancy 3D.

Ideally, you'd have adventure games, real full fledged adventure games that would be "enhanced" by a third party with inline dictionary, word lists, pronunciation and so on. But this isn't happening anytime soon, nor ever, that I know of.

Although I think there was some kind a tool that would parse the text in Japanese adventure games (more like image slideshows with lots and lots of spoken text and no choices to make ). This would at least let you look up the word but still very cumbersome.

So short of this, when I played Erben der Erde (Inherit the Earth) on my Amiga 1200 back in my early twenties, I had a notepad and I wrote down hundreds of german words and looked it all up. It was excruciatingly slow but within the context of the game's world I started to recognize more and more words without looking them up. Now I forgot all of it >_>

ファブリス Wrote:There's one type of 2D games on iOS with very nice art (usually) that would be very interesting, I don't know what they're called: you have a "bric à brac" and you look into the picture to find the items. Many many random things without the need for fancy 3D.

Are you talking about Hidden Object games? Some of the good ones have storylines, like Professor Layton etc.

Hi everyone! My name is Rob Howland and I am the creator of SanjigenJiten or "SanJiten" for short.

Hopefully no one was affected by the previous post and I would like to link everyone to the right place, which has already been done by good sir aphasiac. Thank you aphasiac!

Here is our recently launched Kickstarter - kindly help us spread the word:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1220951156/sanjiten

Here is the official website:
http://sanjigenjiten.com/

Here is the download page:
http://sanjigenjiten.com/?page_id=9

Hope you like it and sorry about the confusion!
-Rob

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@RealSanJiten You'll note that we did edit out the link fairly soon. However I should have acted on my hunch and ban this user already. He is banned now. If you can edit your post to something nicer, I can replace the 1st post. Then I'll clean up the thread.

The OP's IP is 46.21.99.26 . It is listed on StopForumSpam, it wasn't then.

Your IP is from Japan.

I'm afraid the original post (from an impostor) will probably be cached by Google for a little while.

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Getting a hosting error for the sanjiten website right now.

Hey ファブリス,

I did notice you removed the link actually. So thank you for that!

Sorry for my poorly-chosen words, I was simply upset and I apologize.

I've edited my post and would also like to thank you for helping to clear things up.

Cheers,
Rob