One of the obvious "I should do that!" gameplay additions to the Typing Tutor will be a return of the Munky Train!

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Previously on Munky Train...

Munky Train (2005)
Munky Tests his Engine (2010)

Munky and his Train go a long long way back, and though I'm fairly sure people know not to get on his train any more, he keeps on chuffing along to wherever the tracks will take him.

When I added Munky Train to my list of lessons/games for the typing tutor, I knew it'd require a ton of features.
An animated puffing train would be nice, for one, but also the poetry.
That game thrives on having a nice long poem to type.

"Hey, why not ask the AI" I thought..
So, I grabbed the poems from the two games listed above, and threw them into Claude.AI, before sitting down for a good hour or so, reading and editing the lines of text so they had "just" the right rhythm (to me!) and also made sense within the poem.

Each of the four versions takes the train on a new and exciting adventure. I can very easily see how people might end up creating those A.I. Generated kids books, because, my goodness, right now, this is very much that!

I might add a few more train journeys to Munky's adventures, and see where that takes me.

Animating things might be tricky, though. I'll have to think about that.
Eeek.

Meanwhile...

I've added "a" form of Greenie to the tutorial engine.
I'm not 100% sure if that's the final style, but he certainly does look happy, and his little arms flap up and down as he types!
He's on the bottom right, so if you're playing in a landscape ratio, or a portrait, he should be out of the way enough that he isn't too distracting.
Next I need to start adding him to the tutorials and the like, but in a way that isn't annoyingly obnoxious!

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A.I. Corner

Lyrics : The first chunk of the original Munky Train
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"Cartoon Derek screams from the window of an out of control steam train" by Replicate/Flux

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