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| Eltwish Diglot Newbie United States larrykenny.com Joined 4782 days ago 13 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, German | Message 1 of 16 23 October 2011 at 10:03pm | IP Logged |
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I thought this might be of interest to some here - I've made a game in Java where you have to build chains of words sharing kanji in common. You can find it here:
http://larrykenny.com/kanjichain/ So this can be kind of fun and good for practicing kanji, but I don't think it really taps into the huge potential of the Chinese characters for word games. I mean, your playing pieces are thousands of characters with semantic and phonetic content which combine in hundreds of specific ways, have elements in common, are of varying rarity - surely some really fascinating, strategically complex games could be played with kanji as your game pieces? Also, if anybody finds any bugs in Kanji Chain or can think of ways to improve it, please let me know. I also have a first-draft translation of the game text to Japanese available at http://larrykenny.com/kanjichain/gametext.txt (be sure you view in Unicode), and if anybody has time to look it over and point out mistakes / unnatural phrasing it would be really appreciated. My apologies if this is seen as advertizing - it seemed relevant, I'm not profiting, and I do intend to join discussions in this forum unrelated to my work (and have, but I had to create a new account when my last account's email address expired). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6125 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 2 of 16 23 October 2011 at 10:54pm | IP Logged |
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Kind of interesting. I gave it 動詞 and it responded with 詞賦, and ooh, what is '賦' -- not so easy.
Out there on the net, someone made a 四字熟語 puzzle game, where you had to fill these in, up and down in a 4-square box -- insanely, insanely hard. (Maybe even hard for Chinese? I wonder) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 3 of 16 24 October 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged |
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It won't load for me. I get a big white box that says "Error. Click for details." Clicking opens an alert window that
says "Error. Click for details" and clicking THAT leads me to a little window that tells me what version of Java I have and nothing else. Reloading the page did nothing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Eltwish Diglot Newbie United States larrykenny.com Joined 4782 days ago 13 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, German | Message 4 of 16 24 October 2011 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
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cathrynm: Heh, I think the game was just trying to discourage you... though if you were playing on beginner mode you shouldn't have gotten that kanji. The upper difficulty levels are meant to be hard for native speakers, so there's no shame in playing on Beginner.
Luai: That's strange, thanks for bringing it to my attention. Did you happen to notice what version of Java you had, and do you have similar problems running any other Java applets that you know of? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 5 of 16 24 October 2011 at 9:07pm | IP Logged |
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It says this: Java Plug-in 1.5.0_30
Using JRE version 1.5.0_30-b03-389-9M3425 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM It occurred to me that it could be a Safari issue so I tried Chrome and it gave me a message "The plugin needs your permission" so after approving that, I reloaded the page and got a similar error to the Safari one, only this time when the console opened it had a lengthy record of the error (that I don't have the computer knowledge to interpret), which the general gist of was "java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file" Or so I think. I can send you the whole thing via PM if you need it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6125 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 6 of 16 25 October 2011 at 8:37pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, actually it's okay. I think for me I think I've learned and forgotten many of the obscure jouyou at least a few times. I've kind of seen these, but I have gaps and some characters I only know one word. It's actually mildly entertaining to go until I fail on a difficult or forgotten one and then to look up the compounds.
It is very easy to type in a strange Japanese word for your name on the high score list. I think you look at the high score boards you'll see some peculiar names. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 16 26 October 2011 at 2:37am | IP Logged |
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Playing on beginner's mode, I just got 酸価 which doesn't have an entry in the linked denshi jisho, and shortly after that 薬練. I don't know about others, but to me it somehow doesn't seem to make too much sense to be confronted with many low-frequency words on a lower level. Also, at least on my computer the game uses a non-standard font that makes the game unnecessarily hard. Edited by Bao on 26 October 2011 at 3:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 8 of 16 26 October 2011 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
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I got the hightest score in all levels, my nickname was oresama wa ichibanndayo
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