Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by tuhin » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits
atebits.com

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by nicholassmith » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 5:24 PM UTC

It's one hell of a good looking app and according to an article on The Verge it apparently clocked in at under 7k LOC. Looking forward to seeing what comes out of Atebits over the coming years.

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by wmeredith » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

Good lord the App Store search is lame. I get three results when searching for "Letterpress" and this game isn't among them. In fact, I just spent about 5 minutes trying to find this game at all and I can't. Boo.

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by twootten » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

wmeredith wrote: post #3

Good lord the App Store search is lame. I get three results when searching for "Letterpress" and this game isn't among them. In fact, I just spent about 5 minutes trying to find this game at all and I can't. Boo.

I think it takes a little while for new additions to get indexed into the search. Links will take you there though...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/letterpress-word-game/id5266...

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by fieldforceapp » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:18 PM UTC

I 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...)

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by whalesalad » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

Very 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.

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by haraball » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 7:21 PM UTC

Very 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.

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by chrislloyd » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 8:11 PM UTC

I love the app, but this isn't how you win friends on the internet: http://cl.ly/image/0Y401a2D1c2R ;)

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by tehwebguy » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

This game rules.

It's fun, it's easy to play and it's got the kind of interface that feels very simple but actually has insane attention to detail.

Edit: You don't have to use only contiguous letters, if you've played a lot of Scramble that may take some getting used to.

Re: Letterpress by Loren Brichter of Atebits

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Post by spartango » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

fieldforceapp wrote: post #5

I 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...)

No one says you can't study it even now (except perhaps your calendar)... One classic starting point is "The Design of Everyday Things"[1].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/d...