PopCap Launches Bookworm Mobile Game with cell carriers
Posted by gasusan2005 on 11/21/07 in Software
PopCap Games announced today the immediate availability of its hugely popular game Bookworm for a wide array of cell phones in North America and the United Kingdom. Originally launched for Web and PC play in 2003, and the recipient of numerous accolades including “Puzzle Game of the Year” from Games for Windows magazine (nee Computer Gaming
World), Bookworm has been a resounding success on BlackBerry since becoming available for that handheld device in April of this year. Bookworm is the second mobile game PopCap has developed internally, and is available today from T-Mobile in the UK and all major mobile carriers throughout North America.
In Bookworm, players must build words from contiguous letter tiles on a
grid. Longer and more difficult words score more points and produce a
variety of “gem tiles” that offer additional bonuses (and mega-bonuses when multiple gem tiles are used in a single word). Burning tiles sear through normal tiles, reaching the bottom of the grid more quickly; they must be used before they reach the bottom or the game ends. With the new mobile version, players have the option to control the selection of letter tiles via d-pad/cursor, triple-tap or predictive text entry, such that the game controls are streamlined specifically for on-the-go play.
Key features of Bookworm Mobile include:
- Classic and Action game modes with all the game-play of the award-winning PC version
- Vocabulary of up to 140,000 words based on the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary
- Historical tracking of all-time highest scoring as well as longest words, enabling players to compare their personal bests to friends’ all-time best words and scores
- Choice of 3 input methods (two of which are unique to mobile) to optimize experience on the mobile phones
Source:Pop Cap Games press release
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