年獸：文字冒險遊戲 | The Beast, Nian: A Chinese Text Adventure by IFforClassroom

年獸故事文字冒險遊戲。（可以选择简体字）。For Chinese language learners, I highly recommend the mouse-over annotation bookmarklet found at http://mandarinspot.com/bookmark

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Comment IFforClassroom

03 Aug 2020

Here's a CYOA about college life http://cst4.zecong.hu/

Comment IFforClassroom

06 Feb 2020

http://play2.textadventures.co.uk/Play.aspx?id=fn3lbvmpgkqjquwzfbuiiq
<u>The Martian</u> is a Simplified Mandarin sci-fi game.

Comment IFforClassroom

06 Feb 2020

Thank you, China_FBI! You are very kind.

Review China_FBI

31 Oct 2019

多写一点中文的，在这里不常见。

Comment IFforClassroom

30 Jun 2018

侦探故事 http://jagt.github.io/detective-story/

Comment IFforClassroom

10 Jan 2017

Thank you for giving my game a try, Jesse Richardson. I look forward to finishing yours. The beginning is already funny.

Comment Jesse Richardson

10 Jan 2017

i can kinda sorta read chinese, but i forgot most of it. Reading 5 words in this game was challenging for me. But not to fear, Xanmag, this game is not a sandpit game.

Comment IFforClassroom

22 Dec 2016

Apart from visual novels, IF is really hard to find in Mandarin. Here is a TPRStory I found for Chinese language learners. https://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/j92x

Comment IFforClassroom

04 Aug 2016

<u>Escape (逃出去)</u> is better than my game. Play it if you want to practice reading Chinese!

https://wordswing.com/cards/text-game/escape/play

Comment IFforClassroom

27 Feb 2016

If you know of any other Chinese text adventures or interactive fiction, please leave an informative comment. Thanks!

Comment flysquirrel775

25 Feb 2016

Oh I see the game is now Sandpit.

Comment XanMag

18 Feb 2016

IFfC,

I initially placed it in sandpit, because that was listed as the suggested category by the author. It still is. I don't think any moderators can read Chinese, so I think it is safe enough to trust the author? Right? After seeing the news feed, I moved it back to uncategorized because I did not now where to put it! =)

Anyway, either respond in your comments section to what category it belongs in OR update the listing requesting the proper category and I will move it to the proper location! Thanks!

Comment flysquirrel775

18 Feb 2016

IFforClassroom do you think someone among the moderators can read Chinese? This game should really be part of a different category than just "Uncategorized".

Comment IFforClassroom

18 Feb 2016

For Chinese language learners who would like to us IF for reading practice, I highly recommend the mouse-over annotation bookmarklet found at http://mandarinspot.com/bookmark

Comment IFforClassroom

15 Feb 2016

Rats. I got one iteration without �� marks; now they're back again. :(

Comment IFforClassroom

15 Feb 2016

Wow! That fixed it, apparently! It was not troublesome, I just "replaced all" in a text editor.

Comment flysquirrel775

15 Feb 2016

This solution might be troublesome, but try typing the question marks in English instead of Chinese when writing it. Hopefully that works.

Comment IFforClassroom

15 Feb 2016

Yes, exactly!

Comment flysquirrel775

14 Feb 2016

Is this one of the question mark problems you are talking about?

�� I see this sign in the middle of some sentences.

Comment IFforClassroom

14 Feb 2016

flysquirrel775, thank you so much for your generous review! I learned English first which accounts for the numerous errors and wrong words in the game. (My friends got tired of revising this for me). The Simplified Chinese version still needs a lot of debugging and fixing as well. Did you notice the occasional double question marks (??) ? Do you have any idea how to make them stop popping up? The really weird thing is they don't pop up in the same place from play to play.

Comment flysquirrel775

14 Feb 2016

IFforClassroom, which language did you learn first, Chinese or English? I just want to know since I had some difficulty playing the game due to not being completely able to read all the characters. Since you're fluent in both, that's obvious, I was just wondering if you learned Chinese as a foreign language or maybe English as a foreign language. Either way it's nice you can write games in both.

Review flysquirrel775

14 Feb 2016

写的不错，我玩了足足45分钟。让我能够在一个游戏里接触传统文化。再继续写这一类的东西吧！

Getting excited for New Year's? While exploring the streets and gathering celebration food, keep in mind that there exists a New Year's Monster, which comes to town at the end of the year.

If you're up for a challenge, definitely try this game. Keep in mind that at first it may take you some time!

Comment IFforClassroom

13 Feb 2016

Yes, flysquirrel755, I can speak English. I know of very few IF in Mandarin. Taiwanese and Chinese Mainlanders often prefer visual novels and graphic adventure games. The only other Chinese IF author I know of is 余英卜月. It would be nice to find more.

Thank you for your attention. It looks like your game, Memories of Hell: Story of My Hometown, is getting great reviews. I'll play it soon!

Comment flysquirrel775

13 Feb 2016

wait you definitely can speak english.

Comment flysquirrel775

13 Feb 2016

wait a minute IfforClassroom can you speak english it seems like you can

Comment flysquirrel775

13 Feb 2016

能讀懂這些的人幾乎沒有。這裡說中文的人不多。

Comment IFforClassroom

12 Feb 2016

親愛的moderators,

不好意思。可以麻煩你們重新考慮。我不覺得這個遊戲是「Too short.」主角色可以隨時去山洞睡覺。如果還沒有辦法去攻擊年獸的話遊戲就結束了。可能是這個原因。我老婆（台灣人）第一次需要差不多半小時玩完。

Dear moderators,
Please excuse me. I would like to bother you to reconsider your assessment. I do not think that the game is "Too short." The player character can find a place to sleep at any time. However, if the player character has not yet found a way to defeat the Chinese New Year Monster, the game ends a that point. My Taiwanese wife took about half hour to win this game.

Thank you.