This is the project page for the LeaRN Japanese RPG: Slime Forest Adventure.

SFA can teach you basic Japanese literacy with: katakana, hiragana, and kanji.

It is playable and the first storyline ("Jenk's Adventure", for introductory kanji recognition) is essentially complete. There are demo and registered versions available for Windows, OS X, and Linux.

-Darrell Johnson
 (contact by email - all inquiries welcome)

Current Features

Demo version of Slime Forest Adventure:

• optional introduction to katakana and hiragana
• learn to recognize and distinguish 200 kanji
• the adventure begins with Episode 1
• start learning kanji readings with a sample sidequest
• introductory vocabulary and grammar in Supplementary Training

The Gradeschool Kanji registered version additionally has:

• the adventure continues with Episodes 2-4
• expanded set of 1,000 kanji, with readings training
• full sidequest to train and test kun readings
• additional readings training and testing coming soon

The Common Use Kanji registered version also has:

• expanded set of nearly 2,000 kanji
• complete readings training with ~3,000 example words
• full sidequest to learn kun readings for 1,000 kanji
• replay the story on Hard Mode to learn more kanji and their readings
• continuation of main story coming soon

Slime Forest Adventure

Screenshots

	Register for more:
	$10 for Gradeschool Kanji version
	$20 for Common Use Kanji version
(the Common Use Kanji version includes all of the Gradeschool Kanji version content)

News

Friday, October 3

Just a small bug fix release today. Still working on the major release, but I got some good bug reports that I felt should be dealt with.

Tuesday, September 16

I'm working on a major release, which extends the story to an ending, with four new areas. After it's done, I'll go back and add sidequests, and generally polish things up. Sorry for only minor updates this last couple of weeks, I expected to be done sooner.

Monday, September 8

Another minor release. This one changes the spell charging to be more logically based on fighting with the spellbook equipped.

Wednesday, September 3

Very minor release today. Just changes the text entry to be more standard: you can enter しんとう as "shintou" rather than "shinntou", since it's not ambiguous when the "n" is followed by a consonant. You still have to type "anni" to get あんい, since "ani" will be あに. Text entry is still in katakana, to ensure you get enough katakana practice, and as a style thing, because of the association of katakana with very primitive computer systems (like ALL CAPS).

Friday, August 29

New release today. The spells now each have their proper effects, gameplaywise.

Tuesday, August 26

The mailing list / email newsletter has been discontinued. It's just not arriving for half of the people on the list, due particularly to gmail refusing automated mail from lrnj.com (it doesn't even put it in the spam folder, it just refuses to deliver -- apparently the system decided that individually requested password-fix emails were "unsolicited bulk email").

Saturday, August 23

New release today, adds spell charging and casting.

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