Thank you for the feedback! Sometimes making a game feels like screaming into the void. I wasn't expecting anyone to see this, much less put out a 20 minute video about it!
I agree with the vast majority of what you said and will be keeping track of the notes I took from your video if I ever go to improve this. I am tempted to work on it again, but my current life and project load are too heavy for me to add anything on top at the moment.
One point I'd like to make is that I created all the art, so the icons that show up by color weren't downloaded. The original plan was to put the icons behind the kana, but that made everything to hard to parse.
Lastly, if I were to change the gameplay to be goal-based, that would require a lot of thought. As it is I can grab 5 different hiragana and, due to the words included, be guaranteed of being able to get at least 2 words that use those hiragana. I have absolutely no guarantee of being able to get 10 words all of which only use the five hiragana tiles for that session. It's not a bad idea at all, I would just need to put more thought into how it would work. Once again, thank you for your feedback.
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A little gameplay and a LOT of critique about a potentially excellent educational game
Thank you for the feedback! Sometimes making a game feels like screaming into the void. I wasn't expecting anyone to see this, much less put out a 20 minute video about it!
I agree with the vast majority of what you said and will be keeping track of the notes I took from your video if I ever go to improve this. I am tempted to work on it again, but my current life and project load are too heavy for me to add anything on top at the moment.
One point I'd like to make is that I created all the art, so the icons that show up by color weren't downloaded. The original plan was to put the icons behind the kana, but that made everything to hard to parse.
Lastly, if I were to change the gameplay to be goal-based, that would require a lot of thought. As it is I can grab 5 different hiragana and, due to the words included, be guaranteed of being able to get at least 2 words that use those hiragana. I have absolutely no guarantee of being able to get 10 words all of which only use the five hiragana tiles for that session. It's not a bad idea at all, I would just need to put more thought into how it would work. Once again, thank you for your feedback.