Happy New Year!

While we have been active on social media, this is our first actual update to the game since December! First thing is first:

After this update, we are closing new players from joining the alpha

Due to heightened interest in the game, we now have far more people interested in playing the game then we can handle. Therefore, we will be closing access to the beta to new players after this update. This brings up a very important point:

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Hard to believe it's the end of the year! Let's talk about the exciting new updates we have for Nihongo Quest!

Nihongo Quest is an MMO!

I am very excited to announce that Nihongo Quest is an MMO...at least for now!

This may come as a surprise to some of you (since this definitely wasn't something that was hyped), so let's explain some of the benefits to making this an MMO.

One thing I will note before I get into things: do not forget your Nihongo Quest password! We don't have a password recovery system (yet), so don't lose this, please!

In Japanese, basically one character = one syllable (technically, they're not syllables but "moras," but eh, you get the point). Each Hiragana character has a unique sound with a few exceptions. 

Two groups of exceptions are じ/ぢ (ji/ji) and ず/づ. (zu/dzu) When romanizing じ/ぢ, "ji" is used for both (pro tip: if you need to type ぢ on keyboard, though, you can type "di"). So what gives? Why have different characters for the same sounds? Is it just to torture poor foreigners studying the language? As you are playing through