Sapmagic (Ed Altorfer)

Hey everyone. We've been quietly building something for a while now. It started because we were learning Japanese and couldn't find anything that taught kanji in a way that clicked for us. Today we're opening it up. This is Kanjimori. 1/7

@houancao @sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 🤔 hmmm

@Sapmagic @sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 so change your words.say it is Chinese not Japanese

Chinese

@houancao @sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 That’s true!

@Sapmagic @sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 not include 零。

@houancao @sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 Kanji are fundamentally Chinese for sure, but they have meaningfully diverged over time in some interesting ways. Some characters were simplified into new forms 新字体 that don’t exist in Chinese, and likewise there are uniquely Japanese characters 国字.

@sonu11421 @usa_hobby01 No.the Japanese also call it "kanji, it mean Chinese. so it just Chinese. nothing to do with JP

Titles are our first reward type for @thekanjimori. You unlock them like achievements. We’re a learning app, so what are the right things to reward? Commitment? Accuracy? Overcoming adversity? Doing something rare? Let us know. #kanjimori #japanese #learning #gamedesign

When I’m making something, there’s usually a moment where it feels real, not just like I’m checking it for bugs. For @thekanjimori, that’s been the past week or so. Come check it out for free: thekanjimori.com #kanjimori #japanese #learning

Recently I've been having fun creating some programmatic visual assets for celebrations and now premium gift codes. Kanjimori is mostly vanilla Javascript and CSS on the frontend, so figuring out how to make these is rewarding, pun intended. #kanjimori #japanese #learning

Friends and mutuals: if you’re not learning Japanese but you still want to support Kanjimori, you can repost the thread below, or share the links with people you know. thekanjimori.com discord.gg/atrVDXMhBA Thank you so much!

As a bonus, if you want to help us build Kanjimori and make it into something awesome, you can join our Discord. Help us grow our seed of a community into something worth being part of. Thank you! 🥹 discord.gg/atrVDXMhBA 7/7

Come try out Kanjimori right now. It's free for five levels, and all you need is basic knowledge of hiragana and katakana to begin. thekanjimori.com 6/7

Hey everyone. We've been quietly building something for a while now. It started because we were learning Japanese and couldn't find anything that taught kanji in a way that clicked for us. Today we're opening it up. This is Kanjimori. 1/7

@CestDommage LinkedIn is leaking

As a design leader, talent is your number one priority. You need to constantly adjust the microbiome of your team to achieve top 1% performance. If a design comes out a bit fish-headed, your canons are probably not firing correctly. Check in with your people.

@nikoue653 Depends on the stage of development in my experience - early R&D projects tend to need UX designers who can be really hands-on working in engine to prototype ideas, while more advanced projects can sometimes need/support more paper design.

@Sapmagic Curious how heavy the Unreal integration is on the UX side compared to just knocking out the heavy lifting in Figma first?

Hey UX and game design homies—if you know me directly or we're connected through a mutual and you might be open to contract work on some interesting projects, let's chat. On the UX side: strong game and/or product UX background, Figma expertise, Unreal/multiplatform experience is a plus. On the game design side: systems design primarily, goals-driven approach, multiplatform is a plus. Could potentially be full- or part-time contract work depending on fit. Senior+ ideally, shoot me a DM!

Kanji has undergone tons of mutation and transformation over many years, so there's definitely stuff that you Just Gotta Learn(tm), it becomes way less scary when you start to master the fundamentals. 4/4

If instead you look at the family tree, you can analyze and look for patterns, like if you think the person component in 休 (resting), 住 (master), 信 (belief), 働 (motion) is semantic or not. 3/4

Another cool thing you start to see when you map these big kanji family trees: forms. A lot of kanji can take on different shapes when they are used as components. Take 人 (person) for example. When it's used as a component it can become: 亻・ 儿・𠆢・勹 2/4