Master 1000: Korean Words

Devlog

• Version 1.52 - Glowier Mastery
  November 20, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

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  Thank you to the gracious benefactor who donated! Another ice cream has been obtained. Just a small update, where now when the screen dims out, any glowing experience orbs will still be visible. Just... Continue reading
• Version 1.51 - Victory Lap
  November 17, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

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  I've reached Master 950 in the game, and thus I'm in the home stretch to completing my own creation! Thus, like Obama giving themselves a medal, there is now a little celebratory fanfare upon reaching... Continue reading
• Version 1.50 - Stars Aligned!
  November 10, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

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  This marks a good time for 1.50, as the latest feature is one I've wanted to add for a while but didn't know how to do. Now as a word reaches mastery, a star will fly down next to the button to show p... Continue reading
• Version 1.49 - Maximum Oversave
  October 27, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  I’ve done it, I finally got the saving backend completely working. Tragically, despite the improvements I made earlier, saving still caused awkward stuttering around the 500-word mark. Incidentally... Continue reading
• Version 1.44 - Saving Improvements
  July 21, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Today's update has three big improvements to saving: 1. The game will not overwrite saved data that has more experience points. If the game notices that your saved data has more experience points than... Continue reading
• Version 1.40 - Saving Efficiency Upgrade
  July 19, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  I've made the saving system more efficient. Previously, there were instances in the code where multiple saves could occur at once, such as when a right answer overlapped with a mastered word which ove... Continue reading
• Version 1.38 - Saving Reliability
  July 18, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

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  Saving and loading should be more reliable now. The plugin that allows Godot to save to the Firebase cloud was recently updated, and since my local version was acting funny, I updated to that version... Continue reading
• Version 1.35 - Quicker Topics
  July 16, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  The game should now introduce vital vocabulary even faster than before. As I was tuning words and adjusting some more categories, I was noticing that it was still taking longer than I'd like for a pla... Continue reading
• Version 1.32 - Making it Count
  July 15, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  While I was perusing my list of 1000 words again, I noticed that I was missing some of the counter words in Korean. For example, 개 means dog but it also means "number of things", which makes it a pr... Continue reading
• Version 1.31 - The Adjective Update
  July 13, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  In the previous update, I moved a bunch of adjectives (especially emotions) into an earlier word pack. But as I was practicing, I noticed I was able to constantly figure out the right adjective purely... Continue reading
• Version 1.30 - Accuracy Accuracy
  July 11, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

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  After manually updating a great handful of verbs, I became invested in further refining the accuracy of my words, since a number of them had more nuanced translations or even multiple translations tha... Continue reading
• Version 1.29 - Further Verb Tweaks
  July 10, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  I'm at Master 700 now! I'm continuing to table the addition of more features until I get to Master 1000 in my own game, since otherwise I'll be so busy programming, I won't actually be learning the wo... Continue reading
• Version 1.28 - Verb Corrections, Exp Tweaks
  June 12, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  A generous Korean friend at work helped me do another pass over the 200 verbs in the game and helped identify about 15 of them that had slight errors, usually just a tense error here or there, or a mo... Continue reading
• Version 1.27 - Tweaks and News
  June 02, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Howdy! Progress on expanding the scope has slowed as I've gotten busier, and led to a funny conundrum: I made the game so I could learn Korean, but I was spending my free time programming the game rat... Continue reading
• Version 1.26 - More Base Tenses
  March 27, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Just a small update that tweaked the verb frequency a bit more. I noticed it was sometimes tough to learn what the base form of a verb was because every time, the game would randomly select from among... Continue reading
• Version 1.25 - Word & Verb Improvements
  March 25, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Almost 100 people have a save file with the game now, with the highest record mastered being 337 words, which is somehow even more than me! And I made the game! Much thanks to everyone who has tried t... Continue reading
• Version 1.20 - Adaptive Experience Bar
  March 14, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  I posted this program on Reddit and received a huge amount of support and thanks for the work! Many people have already gone on to Master 60 words or so, which pleases me to see that some have found g... Continue reading
• Version 1.10 - Cloud Saving Descends
  March 09, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Cloud saving is now fully integrated into the application, making it possible to permanently persist data on the phone and now even cross-link progress between different platforms. I was motivated to... Continue reading
• Version 1.05 - Improved Saves (For Real This Time)
  March 07, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Unless I somehow messed it up, the saving and loading should now be significantly more persistent on mobile (finally). Saving and loading on mobile was still very touch-and-go and often prone to the w... Continue reading
• Version 1.04 - Touch Screen Fixes, EXP Adjustment
  March 05, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Major fix to mobile touch screen interaction where touching wouldn't properly line up with the elements on screen. The short version is that Godot's ability to detect "Button is at x position" is horr... Continue reading
• Version 1.03 - Improved Saves
  March 04, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  I found that periodically, the local storage of web browsers would be cleared, which would wipe out saved progress (most notably on mobile). Now, the game additionally saves to IndexDB. Theoretically... Continue reading
• Version 1.02 - Further Refinements
  March 03, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  A polish pass, most notably I reduced the experience threshold from 110 to 100, meaning new words will be added to the bank a little more quickly. Adjusted a few words as well to fit within the button... Continue reading
• Version 1.01 - Performance Update
  March 02, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  Made two minor adjustments - Previously, if an orb was still in motion when the game was exited, it wouldn't store the experience on subsequent level ups. This has been fixed, along with updated logic... Continue reading
• Version 1.00 - First Functional Release!
  March 01, 2024 by Aqua Dragon

  After 1,500 lines of code, the first major functional version of the game is now out. The most important addition, beyond the progression system being functional and visual, is that the game now autom... Continue reading