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Jan. 16, 2011 (10:34 am) By: Matthew Humphries
Typing is a skill you develop over time, but many of the people reading this don’t touch type. Even if you don’t, it’s possible to improve your typing speed with practice, and what better way to do so than by playing a game?
One of the best typing tutors I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing is Typing of the Dead. Typing words correctly to shoot zombies before they had a chance to bite you worked well and kept you playing. Your typing skill was improving while you had fun making practice a very pleasant experience.
Typing of the Dead was released several years ago, and it’s about time we had a new game that improves your typing. Now we do. It’s a shmup called Z-Type and it’s completely free to play in your web browser.
The gameplay is simple: you control the weapon of a ship positioned at the bottom of the play area. Enemy bombs will then appear at the top of the screen with each one having a word printed next to it. Typing the words out fires your weapon and slowly destroys each unit. Each word must be typed before the bomb decends the height of the screen and hits your craft.
Gameplay happens in waves which get progressively harder based on the length of the words you have to type and how many enemies there are in each wave. You should be able to make it past Wave 10 easily, but it then starts getting more difficult.
This game has been created in HTML5 using the Impact Engine created by Dominic Szablewski. We have featured him before on the site when he created the great little 2D platformer Biolab Disaster.
Give Z-Type a play and see if it improves your typing skills.
