http://forums.sykhronics.com/topic/smiles-japanese-iphone-app-store-search-terms Support and discussion of games developed and published by Sykhronics Entertainment en-US Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:01:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://forums.sykhronics.com/search.php http://forums.sykhronics.com/topic/smiles-japanese-iphone-app-store-search-terms#post-68 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 23:49:05 +0000 mrfun 68@http://forums.sykhronics.com/ <p>Hey... ok, here is an important one:</p> <p>落ちゲー (Ochige - meaning, dropping game, this is used for games like tetrix, puyo puyo)　could be good. you were close with 落ちる</p> <p>Also, ”脳トレ”　is a hot keyword for Japanese game players, but I don&#39; know if this game can be discribed as 脳トレ(brain training game) or not ;( So either way on that one. </p> http://forums.sykhronics.com/topic/smiles-japanese-iphone-app-store-search-terms#post-59 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:24:49 +0000 Mike 59@http://forums.sykhronics.com/ <p>Here&#39;s my list of Japanese search terms for Smiles. A mix of English words and kana/kanji. The words here should be common &quot;what someone would type in to Google&quot; when looking for this sort of game. I&#39;m limited to 100 characters (including commas), so the most common root word is preferred. If something seems too obscure, do let me know. &lt;img src=&quot;http://forums.sykhronics.com/my-plugins/bb-smilies/default/icon_smile.gif&quot; title=&quot;:)&quot; class=&quot;bb_smilies&quot; /&gt; </p> <blockquote><p>smiles,スマイルズ,笑み,笑顔,cute,かわいい,mahjong,麻雀,sudoku,数独,match,試合,楽しい,ゲーム,drop,落ちる,堕ちる,zen,禅,忍耐,puzzle,パズル,物理,女</p> </blockquote> <p>And a list of everything above, with what I was thinking when I added it.</p> <p><strong>smiles</strong> - the name of the game<br /> <strong>スマイルズ</strong> - Smiles in hiragana<br /> <strong>笑み, 笑顔</strong> - Smile and Smiles kanji<br /> <strong>cute</strong><br /> <strong>かわいい</strong> - &quot;kawaii&quot;<br /> <strong>mahjong, 麻雀</strong> - the tile game &quot;Mahjong&quot;<br /> <strong>sudoku, 数独</strong> - the number game &quot;Sudoku&quot;<br /> <strong>match, 試合</strong> - hopefully the idea of &quot;match&quot; or &quot;matching&quot;<br /> <strong>楽しい</strong> - fun (for the uncreative)<br /> <strong>ゲーム</strong> - games/game (how one would casually refer to a video game)<br /> <strong>drop</strong> - the name of the one game mode. an arcade puzzle game.<br /> <strong>落ちる</strong> - &quot;drop&quot;, implying a game where things fall<br /> <strong>zen</strong> - the name of the other game mode. an almost solitaire/sudoku like puzzle game.<br /> <strong>禅</strong> - &quot;zen&quot;, though I suspect it&#39;s not a commonly used term for games<br /> <strong>忍耐</strong> - &quot;patience&quot;. Trying to imply a game like solitaire with this (also known as patience), or a thinking game<br /> <strong>puzzle, パズル</strong> - &quot;Puzzle&quot;, as Smiles is a puzzle game<br /> <strong>物理</strong> - &quot;physics&quot;. It was &quot;物理学&quot; originally, but Google told me I could safely drop the 学.<br /> <strong>女</strong> - &quot;woman/girl&quot;. I had 1 more character to use, so I thought I&#39;d try something general</p> <p>Feedback on the above is greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Also! If you have any word suggestions that would come up in normal conversation to describe Smiles, Bejeweled, Mr.Driller, Tetris, or these sort of games, let me know. For example, we call them puzzle or matching games in English, but some people may also call them gem or block games.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Mike Kasprzak<br /> Sykhronics Entertainment<br /> <a href="http://www.sykhronics.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.sykhronics.com</a> </p>