I'm going to love this game right up until someone creates a cheating app/site.
Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
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Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#12I'm going to love this game right up until someone creates a cheating app/site.
Sounds like a good weekend project to me!
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#13Very fun and beautiful game, just tried it out. I also like the solution that you can play up to 2 games for free, and then you can pay for it to be able to play more at the same time.
A very similar model to Outwitters's (https://itunes.apple.com/app/outwitters/id432969074?mt=8)
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#14I really like this take on asynchronous gameplay UI, it's tough get the "glance" aspect of the UI correct and yet make it compelling. The "Draw Something" problem where you're drowning in partially played games perhaps led to it's demise, a victim of the UI's inability to scale? (Sigh... should have spent more time studying design / HCI in school...)
The [free] Coursera HCI course is going on right now, too.
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#15Very fun and beautiful game, just tried it out. I also like the solution that you can play up to 2 games for free, and then you can pay for it to be able to play more at the same time.
A very similar model to Outwitters's ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/outwitters/id432969074?mt=8 )
Unfortunately, Outwitters was a sales disaster: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/outwitters-sales-disas...
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#16I'm going to love this game right up until someone creates a cheating app/site.
Sounds like a good weekend project to me!
True! Let me fix that.
I'm going to love this game right up until someone else creates a cheating app/site.
Seriously though, cheating apps totally ruin these word games. I remember loving Scrabulous (remember that name?) right up until everyone figured out how to cheat. Then the game just became tedious. Hopefully the tile-taking mechanic in this game will introduce enough strategy to keep play interesting for a while.
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#17I'm going to love this game right up until someone creates a cheating app/site.
The game is far more strategy-dependant than vocabulary-dependant. The word list comes nowhere near being exhausted on a given board within a game.
Now, is it possible to write an AI? Sure, and actually, an AI-contest for this game would be a whole lot of fun. It's not simply "generate words" - you could give everyone the word list and the game would still play well.
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#18Very fun/cool UI. It's surprisingly reminiscent of Metro, err, Windows 8 Style UI. You could wrap an iPhone in some clumsy metal/plastic Windows phone wrapper from a year ago and you'd have no idea what OS was powering this.
I haven't tried the game yet but at first sight, it seems to be heavily inspired by Meego Harmattan / Symbian Belle - a beautifully designed UI (at least in its Meego implementation) that unfortunately never went anywhere due to Nokia killing both Meego and Symbian before it was even released.
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
A very similar model to Outwitters's ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/outwitters/id432969074?mt=8 )
Unfortunately, Outwitters was a sales disaster: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/outwitters-sales-disas...
Loren should do relatively well out of this game though.
Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
A very similar model to Outwitters's ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/outwitters/id432969074?mt=8 )
Unfortunately, Outwitters was a sales disaster: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/10/outwitters-sales-disas...
Outwitters main problem was the teams were functionally identical so there was little point in paying for them. Yes the uber units were different but in actual gameplay these weren't used at all. If there were other noncosmetic differences, this wasn't apparent to me as a casual player.
I guess I spent around $20 in Hero Academy but I spent $0 for Outwitters, a game of similar polish and quality.