Death Spiral Launch Party Contest

Hey, I just wanted to fill you in on how our Death Spiral Launch Party Contest was coming along.  We saw that Word Warp Xtreme was a HIT at Macworld, and we invited all those who stopped by to check out the Launch Party contest.  I can already tell a lot of you have been practicing!

Talk about a terrific response.  We've had an overwhelming amount of entries and we absolutely love the turnout.  The competition is great and there's still a couple weeks still left to play!  It seems there are some very skilled Word Warp Xtreme players!

So remember, go download the latest version of Word Warp Xtreme (free), make an account through our Community (free again) and play the Death Spiral mode (also free…Xtreme!)  Your scores are automatically recorded and you can enter as much as you want, so hurry up and play!  For more info, go here

The contest ends on March 12 and we'll be announcing the winners on March 16 on our website, so stay tuned!

Our trip at Macworld 2010, complete with pictures!

So for the last month, you probably know we've been super busy here at MobilityWare getting ready for Macworld 2010.  In case you didn't know, Macworld is a gigantic convention held once a year in San Francisco that offers access to tons of different Mac products and services.  There's a ton of booths, demonstrations and programs there that are all somewhat related to Macs and electronics.  This year, they decided to devote an entire section to highlight the latest apps from iPhone and iPod touch developers, namely dubbed the Mobile Applications Showcase.  So we figured, what better way to showcase Word Warp Xtreme than to take it to Macworld, the one place where tons of people are looking for the latest great products for their Mac devices!

Click past the jump to read about our trip and check out some pictures!

Macworld 2010 Contest Winners!

Macworld 2010 was so much fun!  It was so great meeting everybody and I'm sure everybody had a blast.  We'll have a blog post recapping our trip really soon so check back later for that!

Anyway, our Macworld 2010 Word Warp Xtreme contest was a HIT!  Thanks to everybody who came and checked out the game, and it was extremely fun showing all you guys how the game worked and stuff.  Thanks also to everybody who took the time to enter in our Word Warp Xtreme contest!  We just posted the winners here, so go over and check it out!  Lots of people entered, but in the end, there was only one grand prize winner.  Congratulations to Ben Rice, who wins a brand new iPod touch!

We already sent emails out to the winners, so if you see your name on there but haven't received anything, send an email over to Marketing@MobilityWare.com right away!

Macworld 2010 and Contests!

Greetings from San Francisco!  We are currently getting situated at the Moscone Center, getting things set up and whatnot.  While we're here, I just wanted to let you know about some contests we're going to be running!

Click past the jump to read about two exciting contests we're having!!

Impressive!

Thank goodness it's Friday!  For the past couple weeks, we here at MobilityWare have been swamped with work and preparation for MacWorld 2010 and that's led to some long and stressful days, but we did receive an email this week from a guy who had something rather impressive to share.

James Ryan of Austin, TX notified us that he reached a score of 1,000,000 in Word Warp! Very impressive indeed, thank you for letting us know and congratulations on reaching that milestone, James! 

James also asked what the all-time high score might be.  We're curious too!

Click past the jump to read more! 

MacWorld 2010

Hey guys, I just wanted to let you know that MobilityWare will be attending MacWorld 2010, on February 11-13, 2010 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.  If you didn't know, Macworld is the premier showcase of Apple products and related technologies, and is an absolute blast to attend.  One new feature that is being added to MacWorld this year is the Mobile Application Showcase, which is a special show floor area completely dedicated to iPhone apps, and you can definitely count on us being there!

Click past the jump to learn about our special Word Warp Xtreme contest held exclusively at MacWorld 2010!

Why Word Warp Xtreme is a NEW application!

Just to let you know, Word Warp Xtreme is NOT just an updated version of Word Warp.  We're sure we are going to be asked that question and the answer, like in many cases, while there are some trade-offs, we thought it would be better for most of our users.

First of all, remember, the existing Word Warp game that users currently have, will continue to function normally and users can still continue to play it if they choose.  However, if they want to take advantage of the new features that we've been talking about the past week or so, they are going to need to download the application we've been featuring, Word Warp Xtreme.

Click past the jump to learn more!

Different Versions for Different Folks

MobilityWare fans are probably aware that MobilityWare likes to offer its users choices.  For instance, many of our applications have free and paid versions.  Word Warp is one of those applications; we offered a free application that contained ads, while a paid application did not have ads at all. 

With Word Warp Xtreme, we again offer our users choices.  However, because of changes made by Apple, we now have to do so differently.  There is only one Word Warp Xtreme application in the App Store.  Users may download it FOR FREE and play it for as long as they want.  Yes, there are ads in this base version of Word Warp Xtreme.  However, if you decide that you really like Word Warp Xtreme but don’t want the ads, we offer an option where you can upgrade to a version that does not have ads.


Click past the jump to learn more about this option

Suggesting/Reporting Words

Remember the series of blog posts we did responding to comments made in the App Store about Word Warp?  Remember the most controversial series…the one where we addressed those who questioned the authenticity of the words used in Word Warp?  (It's found here in case you wanted to refresh your memory). 
While we think we answered that issue fairly well in the blog post (the answer again is, NO, the words are NOT made up) we decided to include a feature in Word Warp Xtreme that those conspiracy theorists may find rather useful – the option to suggest a word or report a word.

Click past the jump to learn more!

Community!

If I had a dime for every time I read a tweet that said something along the lines of, "I've achieved Word Warp greatness with a score of ____ points and I dare anybody to beat that," I'd be leaning back, relaxing, and sipping bottles of beer in Aruba, debating whether or not I should text Steve Jobs and tell him to step his game up.  Unfortunately, that scenario only exists in Corona commercials and I don't think I'll ever be competing with Steve Jobs. BUT, we did make sure to include a feature that will impact the number of people boasting about their scores. I'm not going to lie, I love and appreciate reading all of the tweets, but sometimes I wish there was a way for people to actually know how their score stacks up against others.

Click past the jump to find out our solution!

Challenges!

Think you've got the best Word Warp Xtreme score amongst your friends?  Think you can take on the so called "Ultimate Word Warper" in your office?  Feel like you deserve the chance to take on the #1 ranked Word Warp player on the leader board? Wish there was some way to prove your worth?  Here's your chance!  By using the community features offered in Word Warp Xtreme, you can send and accept challenges from your friends and see if you've got what it takes to be declared the most Xtreme!

Click past the jump to learn more about Challenges!

Head 2 Head Play!!

Continuing on our mission to cover the features of Word Warp Xtreme, we'll discuss other exciting social features of the game.  In addition to Play-N-Pass, there's an even more exciting way to play against your friends, the thrilling Head-2-Head play! 

Click past the jump to read more about my most favorite mode in Word Warp Xtreme!

Play-N-Pass Mode

How often have we read tweets about people talking trash to each other about their Word Warp scores?   Given a stronger desire to compete than we had initially imagined, one of the goals in the design of Word Warp Xtreme was to make it easier for a person to play against their friends and, of course, to really determine who the best is.  We made sure to include lots of opportunities in Word Warp Xtreme where we could have some sort of social interaction and resolve all disputes about who was the most Xtreme!  Ok you're probably right, all we're doing is increasing the trash talking – but at least now it's more fun!

Click past the jump to learn about the Play-N-Pass mode!

Xtreme Play!!

Today, we'll be taking a look at our Xtreme play mode, our newest feature of Word Warp Xtreme! 

Xtreme play is where you get a series of six and seven letter words that are jumbled up.  Your mission is to unscramble each of these words before time runs out.  You get no points for coming up with four or five letter words.  You have to figure out each word!   The faster you figure out each complete word, the higher your score!!

Click past the jump to learn more about Xtreme play!

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.

Click past the jump to learn more!

Word Warp Xtreme Giveaways!!

Want to know more about Word Warp Xtreme?  Dying to purchase the new John Mayer album?  Wish you could do both?  Here's your chance!

To celebrate the launch of our new application, Word Warp Xtreme, we thought we'd give away some stuff, in the tune of iTunes gift cards!  You want one?  Listen up!

For the next EIGHT days, we're going to be spotlighting a feature of Word Warp Xtreme, giving a description about it as well as maybe some insight and what it may bring.  Along with each post every day, we're going to be giving away one $15 iTunes gift card to a lucky individual.

How will we choose that individual?  Click past the jump.

WORD WARP XTREME

So on our Twitter, we promised you guys big things for 2010.  Today is January 3rd and wow, do I have some good news for you today.

So, we all know you've played Word Warp and I think it's safe to say that people absolutely love the game.  I know I've spent quite a few blog posts thanking you guys for playing it all the time.  I've also spent a good amount of time on Twitter thanking people for telling their friends to play Word Warp.  It's really heartwarming to see people embrace a game you've worked so hard on and we cannot thank you guys enough.

Well, you are in for a treat!!  Drum roll please!