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Huh?

A typing game with Japanese songs, inspired on the Flash game Typing Mania 4 (site seems to be down).

Building (Linux)

Run fetchstreams.pl under data/ to download some songs from YouTube and convert them to ogg. You'll need jwz's youtubedown and ffmpeg.

Add a font to data/ with something like:

ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/takao-gothic/TakaoGothic.ttf data/font.ttf

Build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Gameplay

The romaji at the bottom is just a hint, many characters have multiple valid inputs. For instance, し can be typed "si" or "shi", つ can be typed "tsu" or "tu", じ can be typed "ji" or "zi". Just forget the romaji and focus on the actual Japanese text.