Fusion of a social game and English learning---Eipontan

Drecom is one of the Japanese social game developers, but they make efforts in learning apps recently. Particulary, English learning apps "Eipontan" is popular.

Eipontan is the apps that combined learning with a social game.

At first, users take a level judgment test of English degree of achievement.

It is a quiz of English words. Users choose the right meaning of words.

My level is…"You can order a menu in an overseas fast food shop". Mmm, high level? or low level?

Well, it is the beginning of the game. We become the teacher of a strange school and choose one's student.

He is my student. When he study English, he grows up, and a level rises. However, his physical strength is worn out when he continues studying in succession(The heart marks express it).

We can get a virtual currency as a reward when we answer them correctly in questions.

Furthermore, we can get snacks for the student. The growth speed of the student becomes earlier by his eating snacks.

The figure of the student changes by growth. Kawaii!

However, delinquents sometimes torment a student. We must do punishment to him. Therefore we study English words again. They are slightly more difficult than normal questions.

Well, you may have already noticed. This is a form of a J-style social game. Study is equivalent to quests, and delinquents are equivalent to raid boss. Upbringing of the student is a form of the pet upbringing game. They develop the learning games using the social game development know-how that they cultivated until now. They release two learning games other than Eipontan, and the number of those downloading has already exceeded 1 million.

The first Japan's Diet member iOS apps developer was born

Liberal Democratic Party of Japan released first official iOS game apps Abe-Pyon(あべぴょん). The motif of the character is Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

However, the name of the iOS developer is not Liberal Democratic Party of Japan.

Takuya Hirai. Who is he?...

Oh! Takuya Hirai is a Diet member and Internet media director of Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He says in Twitter about Abe-Pyon...

まだ発表していないのに、どうしてわかりましたか？ RT @SocialJAPAN やっぱり時代はミニゲーム。国会議員初のiPhoneデベロッパー(@hiratakuchan)誕生。自民党公式アプリ「あべぴょん」を開発… http://t.co/i9ylX5xwEV
— 平井卓也 (@hiratakuchan) June 20, 2013

"Although I have not announced this yet, how did you get to know this? "
This is the first time that a Diet member releases smartphone apps in Japan.  The IT literacy of Japanese politicians is very poor. However, it may be improved if politicians come to be concerned with direct development like him.

Abe-Pyon is the simple and casual jumping game and anyone can easily play. We let Abe jump in sky high. This may look unpolished, but this is the first step of the Japanese politician.

Japanese girls band Perfume showed their 3D data and tech geeks output them with 3D printer

Japanese girls band Perfume makes efforts in an overseas advance. As the part, they started an interesting trial. It is free distribution of 3D model data of themselves. The downloading of data is here.

This is the data that 3D scanned them(The texture is not included). We can make 3DCG works and movies using this. However, Japanese Tech geeks made figures with 3D printer at first.

We apply a motion and can change a pose.

The figures of celebrities and artists has been produced until now. However, this trial shows new possibility in it. This is a form of new artists goods. If my favorite artist get on my palm? It is an excited experience.

Originally they were popular among tech geeks for some reason since before having gone into the global market. They seem to continue it in the global market, too.


Source:
http://matome.naver.jp/odai/2137183137011705101

Japanese Purikura smartphone apps Loppica started world development

Now, Japanese Purikura(photo sticker booth) seems to be popular abroad. Therefore Japan's Infocom started world development of their Purikura smartphone apps Loppica.

Loppica is camera apps using the facial recognition technology that Infocom provides from 2011. We can make eyes big, a face small, skin beautiful of own portrait. Furthermore, we describe a letter and illustrations in a portrait and can do various decoration. Of course this has the function to post a portrait in Facebook and Twitter. Because it was very epoch-making apps at the time of 2011, this broke through 200,000 downloading from release in two weeks.


At first, they start support of English, Korean, Chinese and provides this in 21 countries.

Clash of Clans started Japanese support. It's very natural

Supercell started Japanese support in Clash of Clans.

These are screenshot.

 Though it was written as "クラッシュ・オブ・クラン" under the title, did you notice? This wrote Clash of Clans in Japanese katakana.

 Characters speak Japanese lines.

All the item names and explanation are transcribed in Japanese, too.

There are very good and natural. And the fonts harmonize with a design. Usually, Japanese support of overseas games are very strange and funny. Or they become unnatural because they were translated exactly. They are sentences such as the example sentence of the textbooks. However, the Japanese support of Clash of Clans is natural. They seem to understand even the Japanese style spoken language and internet and game slang. They studied Japanese? or employ the Japanese staff?

By the way, GungHo announced the details of the collaboration with them in Puzzle & Dragons.

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Big tie-up: Japan's GungHo cooperates with Finland's Supercell by each other's games

These are screenshot under development.

In this collaboration, characters of Clash of Clans appear in the dungeon of Puzzle & Dragons. Their designs are arranged to harmonize with an atmosphere of Puzzle & Dragons. Probably artists of GungHo would draw them. The collaboration begins on June 24.