Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Six and Seven Letter Puzzles!!!!


So to kick off our blog series spotlighting the features of Word Warp Xtreme, I thought we'd start by taking a look at one of the most common requests we received for Word Warp: seven letter puzzles.  Now we've been meaning to institute seven letter puzzles into our game for some time now, we just didn't think we could put it in Word Warp without drastically changing the layout of the game.  As you may know, our old Word Warp game is played in portrait mode and if you look at the screen, there's no way we could comfortably place seven blank spaces on the screen without anything looking squished or awkward.

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Hence, the next big feature in Word Warp Xtreme, and perhaps the most obvious, is that the game is played in LANDSCAPE mode!  Now we can easily fit seven blanks across the screen, and still have room to fit the Warp, Last, Got It, and End buttons as well.  I had the opportunity to play Word Warp Xtreme and I can definitely say the gameplay feels much more natural as I can hold my device comfortably and tap letters with both hands.  I hope this accommodation factor adds a boost to your Word Warping abilities!

But back to the main topic of the blog post, yes, because of the layout of Word Warp Xtreme, there are now seven letter puzzles available to be played.  I'm sure this adds an extra element of challenge to your game and I'm definitely excited to see how well you guys do.  Yes, the six letter puzzles are still there and you can play games with strictly six letter puzzles, seven letter puzzles, or play games where you'll encounter both sets of puzzles.  How great is that?

Also, because the game is played in landscape, we have room to include space for five columns, holding ten words each, allowing us to include a lot more space for words that can be derived from the puzzle characters (more than any other game in this specific anagram game genre).  Hence, this makes our puzzles the largest in the App Store!

You may also notice that next to some of the words at the top, there may be a multiplier, like "2x."  If you can get those words, hats off to you!  Those are the bonus words, the seemingly "harder" words that one might not normally pick up right away.  Correctly spelling that word doubles the points you would have received for that word.  Xtreme, right?

So there you go, our first big feature of Word Warp Xtreme.  Stay tuned in the coming days for other elements of Word Warp Xtreme we will feature.


Remember, you can get Word Warp Xtreme from the App Store for FREE!

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