Comments on: Into the Haze: A new text adventure game for Chinese learners

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 13:06:43 +0000

In reply to Will. Actually, the full version of the game does require a paid account. :)

By: Will

Will — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 03:06:58 +0000

This game is an awesome tool. Many thanks and much respect for allowing it to be free.
I would pay for access.

By: Fearchar

Fearchar — Wed, 24 May 2017 21:48:30 +0000

Nice artwork; pity about the ugly script. Let us know when you have proper characters, 正體字. 😉

BTW, “whom” is not really appropriate for that register or word order (“it’s good” and a preposition at the end of the clause show the register).

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Tue, 23 May 2017 17:44:59 +0000

In reply to Kate. Hi! At the moment, there's only simplified. The ambition is of course to provide traditional as well (both Kevin and I learnt mostly traditional actually), but we need to show that the game is actually something students want before we invest much more time and money. :)

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 21 May 2017 23:38:34 +0000

This looks SO exciting, and my family would be really motivated by a game like this, as we’re all four learning to read and write Chinese, and our two kids are very game obsessed. We’re currently at 100, 400, 600, and 900 characters, so the game looks perfect for our level. However, my husband is from Taiwan and we’re learning to read traditional characters. After you pay, is there any way to switch to traditional characters, or simplified the only option?

By: Alf

Alf — Fri, 19 May 2017 09:36:35 +0000

In reply to Olle Linge. Thank you! Can't believe I missed that sentence...

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Thu, 18 May 2017 05:40:05 +0000

In reply to Alf. It says in the article! His name is Kerim Akyuz.

By: Alf

Alf — Wed, 17 May 2017 18:54:33 +0000

That’s really nice artwork–who’s the artist? (Of course, the games themselves are good too!)

By: Olle Linge

Olle Linge — Fri, 12 May 2017 08:54:19 +0000

In reply to Harland. Right now it's definitely possible, because the game has been out for about a day. :) There are no plans to introduce anything that costs anything, apart from full access, which is already implemented. If you have any suggestions for how we can continue working with this and develop more learning resources, please let us know! It takes hundreds of hours to develop something like this so it's not something we can continue doing on our spare time.

By: Harland

Harland — Fri, 12 May 2017 08:02:37 +0000

You’ll never be on the leader board. The people on there play the game obsessively, every day. That’s the problem with these “game-ified” apps, they appeal to the wierdos out there and we mere mortals never have a chance. The only thing missing is microtransactions to buy clues to the next mystery, which I assume are coming soon.