June 29th, 2010

Learn to read Hiragana and Katakana with our new game Kana Invaders. It’s easy to play. First, chose the type of game, either Hiragana or Katakana. Then select the level of difficulty. Finally try to blast the Kana Invaders by typing the kana displayed. If you are too slow they will land on your head and it’s all game over man.

PLAY KANA INVADERS!

A huge shout out to Ricardo who made this game and designed this website. Check out his awesomeness at Cataplasma.

As we would like to improve this game, please feel free to leave your comments and feedback here.

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  • WOW, awesome game you have there. This game has definitely helped me a bit since I do have some basic knowledge. :)
  • Amy
    Thanks for this! My friend and I started learning katakana a couple of weeks ago, and now we're onto level 17 - almost there. This game has been enormously fun and helpful; can't wait to move onto hiragana.

    I do have one suggestion; in the first levels of the game, just ka, ki, ku etc. are used, and then the "g" forms. This was useful as we knew the symbol we were looking at was one of a potential five, and helped us cement their images in our minds.

    But in later levels, other symbols are used (the sa, ta, na lot) as well as the original five, so we weren't as confident in our guesses and became confused.

    Would it be possible to incorporate newbie levels? For example, a level with just ha, hi, fu, he and ho and its variations with "b" and "p", a level with na, ni, nu, ne and no, and so on for each set. This worked best for us when first learning the "k"s.

    Thanks again for the game and the great site.
  • Snilloc42290
    its fun, though it seems a little fast, i would be cool if there was a way to slow it down a bit
  • kristin
    this is awesome. can you make a kanji invaders to help me study?
  • Seconded! I was just posting about that, my very self!

    おねがいします!(<--it takes me 24 minutes to read that!!)
  • Frodo
    Great game,, a Blast *ahem*
  • Groan...ha ha. Thanks for playing the game.
  • awesomely addicting game, creating a youtube video about it now with a blog post coming next week.
  • Vince
    Alex, this is Vince - we met at the Hacker Space. Nice game there brutha. We should catch up one of these days on your mag … let us know if there's anything we can help you with ...
  • Hi Vince. Absolutely. I think we need to talk about this over a beer!
  • Barbara Beltran
    thanks :D
  • Ish
    I absolutely adore this game. I have been trying to find something that will help me learn the symbols besides rote memorization and this seems to do the trick. The only thing I wish it had was a native speaker pronouncing the symbols as we blast them away, or just have a list of them at the bottom so we can make sure we are pronouncing them correctly!

    Thank you!
  • Thanks for the comments. Maybe we can work your ideas into a future release of the game.
  • jeremy
    Fantastic work!
  • Domo domo!
  • Stephaniebsc
    GREAT GAME
  • Thanks!
  • Narnia
    awesome :) add highscore? lol
  • Very good idea. We will have to release that in the next version.
  • Stephaniebsc
    This is so great. I love it. This is a great way to learn.
  • Thanks!
  • Josh Williams
    This game is too cool. Its absolutely awesome. It really makes you think and its tests you on how well you know the kana. I love it.
  • Thanks for trying it out.
  • hahahahaaha suuuuuuugoooooi!!!!!!!! (^_^)
  • Domo!
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