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knuckleheads 4 days ago

https://www.threeemojis.com/ , a daily word game for learning foreign languages. It's been a lot of fun to work on, and it's almost something that I am very proud of. For now it's only playable in German, and someday I hope that it will include many more languages. Today's puzzle shows the challenges of making something like this because there are a lot of old ancient words in there (that I am working on filtering out).

slig 4 days ago | parent [-]

Hoping to see the English version soon! By the way, I'm also working on a daily games website with a subscription model (it's not live yet!), and I'm considering a price range exactly like yours. Are you having success with your subscription model? This thread [1], specifically this comment [2], was a letdown, but I haven't given up.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595184 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600346

knuckleheads 3 days ago | parent [-]

Ask me in a few months about subscriptions, I'm only a few weeks into having this thing be something even remotely playable. It's more or less the nytimes model and they seem to make it work. Right now, my girlfriend is very helpfully finding very obvious bugs in it most nights that I am fixing, and then after that I hope to get English in there.

I have also read that thread previously and disagree with ads being the only way to go. I think if the game is good enough and, for three emojis in particular, people learn more about their target language, that they will happily pay for it. I know I would at least, and I personally don't think I'm so weird. Friends have surprised me by signing up as soon as I sent it to them, specifically on the language learning value proposition, so I think there's something there. But, if it was just a puzzle game for fun only, then I might agree that the model doesn't work. We will just have to see!