I played Maplestory and grinding games over many years and had alot of fun and made many nice friends, but in its basics all i did was leveling up characters by running around in a map over many hours and killing monsters. I got used to learn vocabulary or learn for school while grinding. I always had one eye on the screen, the other eye in my books^^ One day i had the idea to put both together and started to create a maplestory fangame, where i can grind my japanese vocabulary The game is growing by every day, and i input more and more vocabulary. If you want to have a fast look feel free to watch this movie: [VIDEO] I wished some famous gamedesigners would create games like this in a professional way. Imagine there would be a MMORPG, where people move in a great world like maplestory and learn a new language I have seen people with so much potential who are grinding like 24 hours to get more and more Level Ups, but in the end one day the game server is closing and they lose their character. If they would learn something by grinding, they would be able to speak for example a new language after some years of grinding and if the server is getting closed they wont lose what they have earned Education MMORPGs would be really a great thing Here are still some screenshots from my game, if you dont want to watch the video: Characters are actually created by banned story, and then you can add them into the game and give a name In every new map 5 new vocabulary are coming. The higher the level of the monster, the more vocabulary it knows. Nice training grounds Yes... the game and the vocabulary is still growing by every day. If you like my idea and what i do, you can wait for more videos and things i will post here. If you know famous game designers tell them to make a professional game like this, where people can play and learn together My game is actually made for myself and my own vocabulary set. There will be like 10k words in the end :S I hope i will reach Level200 here XD If you are interested i can share my game with you but i recommend to learn reading Japanese Characters first and get some basic grammar knowledge. ^_^ I used the books from "Genki - elementary japanese" In addition to this books my vocabulary grinding maple fangame will be great :3
Looking forward to playing this! I've been self-studying and taking some courses at the community college and my university in Japanese. Studying has been getting tedious, this seems like a good way to reinforce kanji and kun/onyomi.
Thank you for your nice comments I made 5 new maps, jumpquest, following pet and new boss Here is, how its going on:
Thank you for your nice words ^_^ You motivate me to keep working on this alot^^ So i made another video to show you how a new map is created and what engines and software i actually use
140 words are in the vocabulary database now Here are alot of new maps and a new boss in the end of the video. I thought its an interesting journey to move through a ancient dungeon world and come out in a big city area Have a nice weekend!! Soon i will show you the freemarket i created and a simulated society of random people there ^_^
