Word Familiairty, Hi-scores and bug fixes!

こんにちは！皆さん！ 

Today's update is a big one with new features, lots of play-ability bug fixes and QOL tweaks! The major feature of this update comes in the form of the Word Familiarity System and hi-scores that saved based on users!

Word Familiarity describes a player's ability to re-call words and their constituent Kana. When interacting with a word in Kana Smasher that is related to the question the player will gain a certain amount of "Familiarity" with that word. The converse is also true that if a user interacts with a word that is not related to the question the player will lose some Familiarity.  Players can gain Familiarity in 3 ways:

• Answering a complete question word(this will gain you the most familiarity)
• Picking a guess tile that had Kana in common with the question
• Matching Kana guess tiles with their correct answer tiles

When the round is over the data is pushed to the cloud and any words that you gained or lost Familiarity in will be displayed on end screen. Be sure to scroll down to see all the words and your progress!

Note: Please give this a second to load. You can scroll through the list with the mouse wheel.

With the implementation of cloud saving also brings the Hi-Score system, this will now save your Hi-Score for each JLPT level so you can have a score to strive to beat while increasing your Familiarity!  With this also comes some playability bug fixes and QOL changes, read below.

Bug Fixes and QOL updates:

• Added hi score system that implements cloud saving
• Fixed a bug where bad lists were being overpopulated with un-usable words thus creating some guess tile sets with no usable words
• Fixed issue with duplicated Score elements causing displayed score to be unclear
• Fixed a bug where sometimes answer would try to populate before Question Element was ready thus causing game to freeze
• Fixed an issue where long words were being clipped from view
• Improved shuffling for guess words so the best words aren't always in the same place :)
• Made question elements bolded for better visibility
• Fixed issue where when answering a Katakana word the second round of guess tiles would never spawn
• Gave more time for answering words

This addition of the Familiarity system paves the groundwork to build out other supporting systems to be able to serve up words that you need to review and keep words you know at top of mind. Would love to know what you all think of Kana Smashers latest update! Thanks for reading :)