Taipo is an experimental game exploring the idea of limiting control of the game to typing random Japanese phrases. There's also an English mode.
This could turn out to be a useful tool to practice quick Japanese recognition / production.
A web build is hosted on itch.io.
Please feel free to open a PR if you are motivated. See the TODO list below and any open GitHub issues.
Taipo uses the Bevy engine and is pretty easy to build.
Bevy also has a few dependencies on Windows and Linux that you may need.
cargo run --releasecargo install --git https://github.com/TheBevyFlock/bevy_cli --locked bevy_cli --rev 326722d --features wasm-opt
bevy run --release web- Move UI images into texture atlas.
- Corpses should despawn after some time.
- Load tower stats from
game.ron. - Load starting yen from
game.ron. - Position tower label placeholders in editor with a direction attribute (up/down/left/right)
- Add a "partially typed" state to rendered glyphs?
- If you type extra letters at the end of a prompt, but it otherwise matches, we should tint it red, not green.
- Display upcoming wave's enemy type
- Add sound for
- Wave complete (Train Station Jingle?)
- Wave approaching
- Enemy dealing damage
- ?Earning yen
- ?Becoming able to afford to do literally anything
- ?Tower firing
- ?Enemy taking damage
- ?Wrong word after pressing enter
- Art
- Enemies (Last remaining BrowserQuest assets)
- Map decorations
- An auto-tilable tileset
- Shuriken Tower is awful, so maybe that too
- Another tower or two
- More levels!
- More words, word lists.
- Allow users to add their own words
We're temporarily using some unmodified assets from BrowserQuest, which are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.