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Tag: KANJI

Brainscannr - very quick Time Waster

This one has to go in the "just plain odd" category. Brainscannr is based on a Japanese web site, called nounai me-ka-, or Brain Insides Maker, which uses kanji to represent the various brain states a person might have. The creator of Brainscannr needed to come up with something that would be easily understood by the English-speaking world, so he chose the ubiquitous smiley face. It's hard to ...

Knuckles RPG to help you learn Japanese

I'm not sure why this game is called Knuckles in China Land, but it's a learning game for practicing your Japanese characters--Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji--or your Japanese, Indonesian, or German vocabulary. The game stars Knuckles from the Sonic the Hedgehog games (unlicensed, I'm sure) and takes the form of a traditional RPG, except that instead of fighting battles with monsters, you must ...