You make a choice by tapping or clicking on one of the numbered buttons next to the choice Messages are presented one at a time so you can have time to read and digest each one. Things you say or do are shown in green and appear towards the left, while things other characters say or do are shown in blue, and appear towards the right, kind of like a messaging app. The game will show descriptions of the scenes, describe the results of the actions you take, as well as show dialogues that occur in the game.
#Any online text adventure games series
If the game is suitable for you or not depends on how much effort you’re willing to put into it. In this game, you need to actively engage with the text and understanding it well is rewarded. This is a much more active form of reading than just following along a normal text where you can’t change the story and where your understanding of the text is not tested at all. Don’t feel bad about that, though, failure is a necessary part of the learning process! Exploring the whole game should take several hours unless you’re already quite good at reading Chinese. If you make bad decisions, perhaps because you don’t really understand the text, you will likely fail and need to try again.
Depending on what you choose, the story develops differently. Throughout the game, you can read what’s going on through level-adjusted text (see below) and you’re then presented with options for what to do next. The story begins with the main character (you) trapped in a room for unclear reasons, and you must find a way to escape and avoid getting caught. Please note that the game is free, but that you need to sign up to play!Įscape is an interactive graded reader where you need to both understand the text and make the right decisions to get to the end of the story. In today’s article, I will introduce something much cooler, though: Escape: a text adventure game for Chinese learnersīelow is a 2-minute trailer introducing the most important things.
#Any online text adventure games how to
This has resulted in a few articles here on Hacking Chinese about role-playing as a way to expand your Chinese, as well as how to use computer and word games to learn Chinese. Since I started leaning Chinese, I have also tried to come up with ideas for how to use the power of games (and stories) to learn the language. I love games and storytelling, so it’s only natural that I’ve played role-playing games since I was ten or so.
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