Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography news & patch notes

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Localisation

Wonderful members of the community have helped to localise the game into several new languages! Shashingo now supports learning Japanese from:

• French (Français)
• German (Deutsch)
• Spanish (EU) (Español (EU))
• Spanish (Latin American) (Español (LAT.))
• Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro)
• Simplified Chinese (简体中文)

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Romaji + Kana

Added Romaji + Kana option for viewing the flash cards! This is good for beginners if you are not yet comfortable with hiragana and katakana!

Steam Trading Cards

You can now collect Steam trading cards for Shashingo! Collecting complete sets will allow you to earn and level up a Shashingo specific badge that has cool artwork, and earn new chat emoticons and user profile backgrounds! You can earn trading cards by playing the game, or purchase them via the marketplace from other users.

Minor Updates

- Minor optimization improvements - Some small text/clipping bugs fixed - A few Japanese words adjusted for clarity - Added control swapping for AZERTY/QWERTZ keyboards Thank you again for your support! - Ryan

Changes

• Movement speed has been increased
• Running speed has been increased
• Gameplay options menu now includes a WIP "Motion-Sickness Reduction" setting.

Motion-Sickness Reduction

This setting removes the offset of the camera and sets the pivot point to the centre point of the player. In theory this should help reduce feelings of nausea, but has not been thoroughly tested. Please let me know if this has helped!

Bug Fixes:

Fixed: Cars should no longer clip into each other. Fixed: Difficulties stepping into the butchers shop on low frame rates. Fixed: Rain would sometimes randomly occur when not supposed to. Fixed: Favourite button could be pressed on an photo empty slot. (Controller Input) Fixed: Small visual glitch for 1 frame when swapping borders on new photos. Fixed: Audio button input overlapping with take photo input in find mode. (Controller Input) Fixed: Quiz mode could be skipped with the page turn button after page 1. (Controller Input)

- Fixed an issue showing button prompts when the input did nothing - Fixed a lock out during the tutorials when played with controller

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New Photo Flash-Card Viewer

Many of you wanted to view your photo flash-cards from your album in full-screen just like when you make new ones. So I've included a new way to view them in the photo album! When playing with keyboard/mouse, simply middle mouse click one of your cards and you'll be able to see it much larger on the screen. If you're playing with a controller instead, use the right trigger when focused on the photo flash-card you want to view. On controller, you're also able to move left and right between the photos on the page you are viewing. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/f5d2e741ba3c656324ed7a07a4d63f588f6fd7af.jpg

Day/Night Transition Slowed Down

Many players said they love the sky's colours when the world transitions between day and night, but it was too fast to snap a nice photo. The transition time has now been increased so you can enjoy it a little longer. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/e0b718d68e575a0c1648ad1df8addba696b99c27.jpg

Bug Fixes:

• Windowed full-screen was locking the mouse to the frame when it shouldn't have been.
• The bridge was visually not aligned properly to the road.
• Tree LODs have been adjusted to look better visually.
• Controller allowed some menu options to continue scrolling when past the final option, causing further bugs.
• Find-Mode could be replayed with the "weak" word set when the amount was higher than your actual amount of weak words after getting an answer correct in the previous session.
• Quiz mode duration was incorrect and never properly reset.
• One of the popup translations by the arcade was linked to the wrong sentence.
• Standardized "Reading & Listening" and "Reading + Listening".
• Coffee in the vending machine now counts as "Coffee".
• Ghost was missing it's highlight/focusing in find-mode.

Thanks for playing, Ryan!

A few changes:

• Stool -> Chair. This was changed to teach a more generic and usable word, this word's mastery progress has been reset.
• 2 typo fixes
• 2 Small signs at the convenience stores have been updated to retain an E for Everyone rating
• Fixed a bug regarding the quiz mode selection on controller
• The Find/Quiz Mode menu now has a small animation to show that it can be swapped more clearly.
• The "Export Favourites" button in the pause menu now has an icon

Some bugs have been fixed:

• 'Focused' list should now not reset. But if you have recently played it may have already reset until you next play through Find Mode at least once for each card.
• Some Quiz Mode statistics were not saving, or rewarding coins
• Some pop up translations were not showing
• Various other fixes, and typos

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Introducing 'Quiz Mode'

Quiz Mode lets you study the vocabulary that you learn on the back of your Photo Flash-Cards! You can set up a study session in-game and answer multiple choice questions to earn more coins for buying Filters! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/619f6d365bc323299f2a48980bd4a4de49546bfd.jpg

Export Your Photos

You can now export your favourite photos as .jpegs and transparent .png flash-cards! If you have any issues with this feature, please let me know in the Discord or Steam discussions area! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/84946e053b13e7c4cc1c2e44424c559625cb6acf.png

Incorrect Answers Now Shown After Find Mode!

Your incorrect answers will now be given as a list at the end of a session of Find Mode (and the new Quiz Mode!), so you'll know which words you'll need to study more! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/e86e33661bc95ef03789e2a7e214bc8f52c0cad9.jpg

Reading & Listening Setting

Find Mode & Quiz Mode now let you swap between Reading & Listening, Reading or Listening modes so you can practice the way you want to!

Extra Answers Accepted in Find Mode

Some words in Shashingo could technically have different multiple "correct" answers when you make a guess. Now, some words will accept a few additional answers when photographed. For example: If you are searching for "food / tabemono", you can now answer with a photo of an "egg / tamago" I understand how annoying it must've been to take a photograph of a cherry blossom tree and it be marked incorrect for "tree." It's now possible!!

Pop-up Translation Size Slider

In the settings menu you can now change the size of the in-world pop-up translations!

Invert X or Y-Axis

Many users asked for this option, so here it is! The setting words for both controllers and mouse input.

Updated Tutorial Images

One or two tutorial images have been updated for clarity, as some users are missing out on some of the game's features.

Added The 2 Karaoke Songs to the Credits

Additional Kickstarter backers will be added to the credits soon too. Plus various other bug fixes! Thanks for playing, Ryan!

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/05b6af795f28c5051698865d184f97cba425d59c.jpg The bug has been fixed and the update now includes Furigana / Romaji pop-up translations when you look at and click text in the game! Thank you for being patient as I worked on this! The next update will include invert-Y axis and some other things, so please stay tuned! :D As always, if you spot any bugs, please let me know in the Shashingo Discord!

Bugs fixed:

• 辛い was incorrectly marked as a na-adjective, but it is an i-adjective
• The Egao Dōri sign was missing the line above the o
• The Parking entrance next to the hotel did not register as a photographable object
• Game and TV both displayed "None" as their name when Romaji was set in the options menu
• The English text at the end of lesson 7's dialogue was cut off and should've said "(I) was not well."
• The pronunciation of danboru bako/cardboard box sounded like "ganboru bako"
• The romaji translation of nuigurumi/plush toy, was incorrectly written as meigurumi
• One of the street signs was not able to be photographed
• A few other small details

The Golden photo-flash-cards styling has been removed as it is causing issues with the cat and sakura border

Note: This hotfix release does not include the pop-up translation functionality which is still being fixed/worked on. Thank you for your patience.

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/bc2809bad0b418bdd344fedaa5a75f16fa25af05.jpg Immerse yourself in a unique gameplay experience that combines the beauty of Japan with the art of photography. Start your Japanese learning journey by capture stunning images and making them yours with unique filters and borders.

The future

But that's not all! Post release, I will be hard at work cooking up some exciting new features, including: -Photo exports -Support for additional languages (including French, German, and Spanish etc) -New lessons In the meantime, join the community on Discord to connect with other players and stay updated on any future development! Thank you all so much!

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The Kickstarter for Shashingo is ending soon!

You have less than 2 hours to get some of the great rewards and add-ons which are available: Stickers, Pins, Digital Soundtrack, Flash-cards etc! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autumnpioneer/shashingo-a-photography-game-for-learning-japanese

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The Kickstarter for Shashingo is now LIVE!

With your help, we can get Shashingo to the finish line and you're able to get some great rewards in return! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autumnpioneer/shashingo-a-photography-game-for-learning-japanese

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/f779268c4eee2dae39cdca1b74ba2dddd057e8cd.png I'm pleased to announce that Shashingo is coming to Kickstarter on March 1st to secure the funding that is needed to complete the game. You can subscribe for a launch notification over on the page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/autumnpioneer/shashingo-a-photography-game-for-learning-japanese

{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40512862/bd3d30be830446f73f1aadb9bda35321797204d8.jpg I've opened up a Discord server to chat about Shashingo and to share some behind the scenes development screenshots, gifs and videos! 👀 ➡️Join Here!

On June 11th at 8am PT / 5pm CET / 4pm UK, a new trailer for Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography will shown during the 2022 edition of the Guerrilla Collective showcase. Please tune in to watch the new trailer which shows some new gameplay features and information!