A hero lands in China to teach English and make money, but unexpected events pull him into battles against monsters to collect pages from the valuable Chinomikon book. He tackles challenges across locations to gather all 34 pages and push the story forward. This indie RPG adventure blends learning with play through a unique RPG Maker battle system.
Players hunt for location-specific items-Chinese words complete with pinyin and translations-then enter portal battles. In fights, they select the correct item to defeat monsters marked by Chinese characters, which drop key items for progression. Repeat encounters help memorize words and meanings. Simple gameplay and fast storytelling suit fans of adventure RPGs that mix education with combat.
Chinomikon is an adventure-learning game about a Hero who arrives in China. Hero wants to earn some money by teaching English, but, due to unxexpected set of events, he starts fighting with fearsome monsters for Chinomikon pages. Which is, bytheway, a book of great value.
In order to survive, our Hero must complete a set of challlenges and acquire 34 Chinomikon pages.
RPG maker battle system, but with a slightly different approach.
Algorithm of learning process:
1. You are seaching certain location for items - words that connected to this location. Any item has pinyin (romazition) and tranlation.
2. After searching all of the possible items, you are gaining an access to battle zone's portal of this location.
3. During fight, you have to use right item on an any giving monster. All Monsters, on their part, have chinese characters atop them.
4. Monsters have a chance to drop key item, which you need in order to continue story and learning process.
So, during multiple fights you could remember chinese characters and their translation.
Learn and play at the same time!
- 34 chinese words, that you could learn;
- fast storytelling;
- simple gameplay.
