掲示板 Forums - Quick Draw

Had a quick play at it just to see how it works, seems like a fun way to practice and the customization options for difficulty are great!

What does the "stroke direction" toggle do?

Just an idea :3

What if we tried to make Quick Draw an Online thing?

We could compare our scores and maybe recommend advice for those who struggle.

(Since Shiritori is the only online game in the games section I thought of this idea)

Yea...I've been thinking about the hiragana stroke lengths - some of those are crazy long.

As to "online"-ness, I do plan on having high score tables. Each game we make is an evolutionary step in how much "gameness" it has in it, and I've got a lot of ideas to really flesh this one out! Now, with everything I have in my head, it'll probably go into larger testing in early July, and I hope to get it out by August 1. There's a TON of visual assets that need to be made, so we'll see how much Saki can get done between now and then!

This game is EXACTLY what I was hoping for, wow!! Seriously, when I wanted more writing practice than we had here I decided to go try out a few different free apps made specifically for that, and this is already better than any of them! I feel like I already learned a lot about my weak areas after just 2 rounds.

The interface feels nice to write in, very smooth and responsive. As always, I love that there are plenty of options to tweak it! The "disappearing" mode is fantastic. I haven't played around with the strictness slider yet but I love that it's there. And I was very pleasantly surprised that it can detect stroke direction! I hadn't noticed until I saw it mentioned in this thread, but the way the character appears line by line in the battle scene is a really nice touch too.

A few suggestions:

• I would love if kana had the "hint only" option too, with the hint just being the pronunciation and which alphabet to write it in.
• It might be good to just always show the pronunciation/hint for which character you're on. After getting stroke 1 wrong a couple times on a disappearing kana, I actually forgot which one I was supposed to be writing, lol.
• For kana, 3 seconds is actually a bit long to have to wait before it disappears. What if tapping on the timer in the corner could skip the rest of the countdown, or something like that?
• Gotta admit, for a game called Quick Draw, it actually felt pretty slow to me. It'd be nice for the settings to have an option to decrease the time limit!

Thanks for your hard work once again! 🌟

Thanks for all the feedback!

1. Timing is still being tested, no numbers are absolute yet.

2. There will be a speed slider, just like the other games :)

3. I will probably bring hints in for everything.

4. Good idea on the waiting for kana being cut!

5. I am still deciding on where to draw the line between regular and pro functionality. One thing I have already decided on is that the overworld will have an island off to the side for pro members only - it'll be the custom world where you can whip up whatever list of characters you want! So regular levels will be fixed contents, while the pro island will have a much higher level of customization!

Update:

1. Speed slider added

2. Generally sped things up.

3. timer for disappearing kana shortened

4. Added hints for kana

More levels added (split out the kana a bit). A timer is now built into the game, and your times are recorded and ranked!

The visuals for the front page are still a mess, as I'm working on functional level stuff, and not visuals yet.

Ah, I see! It's meant to be random :)

Quick Draw will most likely buck that trend, though, because the backgrounds will be linked to the area of the map you are playing on.

If this hasn't been pointed out already: just realized that in the katakana levels, the "hint" text actually just shows the katakana instead of its pronunciation. Just those though; hints worked as expected on the two hiragana levels.

On the Katakana first level, only the character ア is showing.