How do I make a vocab typing game?

kikathom

I am making my first game, and I am trying to make a Japanese English typing vocab game. I am basing it off of an old Typing Tutor 7 mini game.

Basically, I am going to have English words fall from the sky, and you will have to type the Japanese word to send a missile at the word to destroy it. If you don't, they will land on one of your 3 cities and damage it. Fast and fun way to learn vocab (mainly making it so that I can play games and study Japanese vocab at the same time.

I have some of the basic rules in place. But I do not know how to do the following:
1. Have the missiles auto path to the words
2. Having the missiles auto target the word you typed correctly
3. Make a table that has the vocab
4. choose how many chapters of words to use (from a textbook)
5. spawn random words from the table
6. how to setup typing each word
7. comparing the word types to the vocab word

Thank you for any advice

I am making this game mainly for myself, But I will post it if people would want to play it.

tatiang

1: Have the missiles auto path to the words

2: Having the missiles auto target the word you typed correctly

Aren't #1 and #2 the same?

3: Make a table that has the vocab

Type the words into a table, one word per row or divide them up into letters, one word per row with each letter in a separate column. Using the Release Candidate of Creator will allow you to do string manipulation, which tends to help with things like this.

4: choose how many chapters of words to use (from a textbook)

Why is that difficult? It's just a choice.

5: spawn random words from the table

You can look in the Spare Code thread on the forums or Google things like random table gamesalad or spawn random gamesalad and you'll find videos and demos that will help you learn how to do that.

6: how to setup typing each word

As a game developer, you have to figure that out. Thankfully, many people here are generous with their time and will help you if you ask questions as you go along.

I've been working on a custom keyboard that you might want to check out: http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/comment/451764/#Comment_451764.

7: comparing the word types to the vocab word

Again, this is something you'll have to figure out or ask for help with.

Since you're new to GameSalad, I don't recommend trying to do all of this at once. Pick one (or maybe two) things from your list of questions and focus on getting those working first.