aphasiac
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From: 台湾
Registered: 2009-03-16
Posts: 1031
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?
ファブリス
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2006-06-14
Posts: 3704
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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 >_>