After another productive week, I am almost ready to put Let's Learn Japanese! out for alpha testing.
The game now has another play mode with which players can practice the Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. It's a simple multiple-choice quiz, which shows the right answer whether the player has got it or not. As the scored part of the programme, both the quiz and match-3 games now have score-bars and life bars, which go up and down depending on the player's right/wrong answers.
The Hiragana levels are now more numerous; now consisting of 12 levels to learn every group of Hiragana character. I also researched some trivia facts; like mentioning now-unused Hiragana characters.
All to make the experience as complete, engaging and informative as possible!
The Match-3 portion of the game also has some more enhancements. Now, players can click the Hint button if they are struggling. If there is really nothing the player can do, there is also a Shuffle button to reset the board.
My final goal accomplished this week was to make a level-win animation. I came up with something simple, but which I think is pretty fun nonetheless.
My main task for next week will be polishing what I have at the moment, in preparation to release the game's alpha demo.
If you're interested in playing the demo, join us on the Let's Learn Japanese! Hiragana and Katakana Discord group.
