u/Ime-Emergency

I’ve been experimenting with a small browser word game built around Chinese characters.

Instead of spelling words from letters, you place radicals/components on a 5x5 grid. When neighboring components can form a valid Chinese character, the game detects it and upgrades the income engine.

Examples:

亻 + 木 = 休

氵 + 古 + 月 = 湖

It’s still rough, but playable here:

https://www.chunqiuyiyu.com/hangrid/

I’m mainly looking for feedback from word game players:

Does the core idea make sense if you don’t read Chinese?

Does it feel like a word game, or more like an idle game with symbols?

I’m the solo developer of WordJoy, a word game about building Chinese characters from smaller components.

You place components onto a 3x3 grid, combine them into valid Chinese characters, and score through points, multipliers, relics, and skills. Each stage has a target score and limited plays, and between stages you draft new components and relics to shape your build.

The idea was to make Chinese character structure playable rather than treating it as a vocabulary test.

Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4218330/WordJoy/

I’d love to hear how this kind of component-based word game reads to players who usually play alphabet-based word games.