Taipo is an experimental game exploring the idea of limiting control of the game to typing random Japanese phrases. There's also an English mode.

This could turn out to be a useful tool to practice quick Japanese recognition / production.

This is my first foray into ECS, and it is a bit of a mess.

A web build is hosted on itch.io.

Taipo uses the Bevy 0.8 engine and is pretty easy to build.

• Rust

Bevy also has a few dependencies on Windows and Linux that you may need.

cargo run --release

cargo install cargo-make
cargo make --profile release serve

• Can we remove TaipoStage::AfterUpdate?
• Corpses should despawn after some time. (This might break the gameover screen)
• Load tower stats from game.ron.
• Load starting yen from game.ron.
• Position tower label placeholders in editor with a direction attribute (up/down/left/right)
• Add a "partially typed" state to rendered glyphs?
• If you type extra letters at the end of a target, but it otherwise matches, we should tint it red, not green.
• Pressing escape should clear the typing buffer.
• Display upcoming wave's enemy type
• Add some volume control, even if it's just typing "quieter" and "louder"
• Add sound for
  • Wrong word after pressing enter
  • Correct word after pressing enter
  • Wave complete (Train Station Jingle?)
  • Becoming able to afford to do literally anything
  • Enemy dealing damage
  • ?Tower firing
  • ?Enemy taking damage
• Commission some art
  • Enemies (Last remaining BrowserQuest assets)
  • Map decorations
  • Shuriken Tower is awful, so maybe that too
• Refactor so that we can restart the game without exiting and reopening.
• More levels!

We're temporarily using some unmodified assets from BrowserQuest, which are licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.