Hi everyone,
As the title say I am creating a JRPG inspired graded reader illustrated with pixel art and I have just released a new chapter [here](https://drdru.github.io/twc/twc_markus_ascent/chapter_3/01_the_legend_of_the_cavern.html).
You can find the links to the 4 chapters [here](https://drdru.github.io/twc.html). I hope you enjoy them !
A bit more about this project :
What’s the Tile World Chronicles ?
– The Tile World Chronicles are a set of stories in N4+ Japanese that intermediate learners can use as comprehensible input. Despite being written in simple language I intend to make the stories genuinely entertaining. Ideally even people who are fluent in Japanese would enjoy reading them.
Why do I do that ?
– because I wish this kind of resource existed when I started learning Japanese
What’s my inspiration ?
– I am a Final Fantasy fan, especially the old ones : FF6 & FF7.
In what type of world to the stories take place ?
– the stories take place in a typical fantasy world quite close to FF6. The one thing that makes it unique is that this world features a technology that allows people to communicate remotely and form some sort of social networks.
What’s my timeline ?
– I’ve been working on it on and off for 2/3 years or so and I expect the project to be achievable within a decade.
Am I a native speaker ?
– I’m not. My Japanese is not even great. However I pay a freelancer to proofread my work and make the Japanese sound natural (she does wonders!). I actually believe being a learner helps as I know which words tend to be learnt first.
7 comments
Looks interesting.
I’m taking a look for sure! Might be quirky and fun enough to force me to actually put my reading to the test.
Love the retro, SNES-like aesthetics of it! Also the pixel art is fantastic. Was the script written by a native Japanese speaker? Or did it go through a revision using an AI translator such as deepl.com? I’d love to use this resource since it looks like a lot of time and effort went into it and looks like a high-valuable resource. Thank you for sharing!
Looks amazing! Definitely out of my league, but going to use it on the future
That’s awesome, thank you. I hope you keep going !
Looks nice, good job! I remember you posting one of your previous chapters here, but at the time I’d slightly fallen out of studying Japanese.
Now that I have gradually been getting back to it over the last couple of months, I am preparing for my first dive into proper immersion. For reading, I’m going to start with Yotsubato!, whose all 15 tomes I imported and received yesterday. Your stuff might just be next on the agenda however. Thanks!
Very neat, bookmarking for later ^_^