Floral Rain

A Mandarin word game for Android and iOS designed to help Mandarin learners grow their vocabulary and improve their pinyin in a fun way.

Players chain phrases containing different words with identical pinyin to score points alongside a ticking timer. Successfully submitting a phrase refreshes the timer. To make things exciting, longer phrases grant more points!

Repo for the currently unused backend API here.

Core Libraries

• Flutter, frontend
• Riverpod, state management
• Isar, local NoSQL database

Visuals

Gameplay demos

Taken using the iPhone 14 simulator.

All features

demo_video_all_features.mov

Main gameplay

demo_video_in_game.mov

Start Game Page

Stats Page

In-game Page

Game Over Page

Installation

flutter run 

• Working on uploading the app to TestFlight/Google Play Store.

Progress Log

Completed

• [12/9/2023] Completed v1.0.0. Implemented stats page, rules page, data persistence for all pages. Tested on iOS and Android physical devices.
• [24/8/2023] Completed main gameplay functionality. Data persistence is not implemented, mock data is being used in stats page.
• [8/9/2023] Moved backend to Isar after trying out Google Firebase and Express+MongoDB backends.

In Progress

• Deploy to TestFlight/Google Play Store.
• Implement settings page and allow users to adjust time limit etc.
• Write pinyin parsing Dart library.

Attributions

• Sakura bridge image from Yuliya Pauliukevich on Vecteezy.
• Falling sakura flowers image from Freepik.
• Chinese dictionary data from CC-CEDICT.