Category: Games
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Tiny Death Star – Learn Chinese and Be a Geek, for Free
The opening for this post probably deserves some more epic music, something maybe like this? Anyway, leave that on in the background as we go into the latest offering by the people behind Tiny Tower–Star Wars: Tiny Death Star! The best part: it’s also in Chinese! Set the OS’s language to Chinese and the game will…
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How StarCraft II helped write my thesis
Well, I should say my thesis is still very much in progress not started, but StarCraft II has played a very important role in helping with my writing and reading sources in preparation. That being said, I don’t actually own the game, but that’s the beauty of the internet. The focus of my thesis is…
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Final Fantasy VII—In Chinese: Replacing the Music
This is an update to the original post, and considering the length of that one, I figured a separate post would be much more manageable that shoving updates into the original. Note: I wrote this after some high hopes that it would work, regardless of the operating system in use. Unfortunately this is not the…
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Gaming on the iPhone
From the comments on this entry by a one Jacob Gill: This looks great. i have been wanting to revist this game for quite some time and playing through again in Chinese would make it even more fun (and perhaps productive). I have also found while playing FFI and FFII on my iPhone that if…
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Final(-ly) Fantasy VII In Chinese—PC Version
This blog is entirely dedicated, and completely sourced from, the hard work and penchant desire to finally get some Chinese RPG goodness up in our studying by @benjarmyn (is this the proper way to cite Twitter folk? I don’t know.. seems a bit silly). The following entry will be rather long, as it collects information,…
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Chinese Video Games
One thing I have always loved to do in my spare time was to play video games, and I have always wanted to incorporate that into my Chinese studies. Unfortunately, the vast majority of games (especially the ones I like) are generally only in Japanese. But! After a ton of searching I finally found two…
En Route To Fluency 