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[GAME] Tiny Words

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Started 10 months ago by gjritter
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gjritter
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I'm very happy to announce the release of my first game, Tiny Words. Tiny Words is a fast paced and fun word unscrambling game. Players try to form as many four-letter words as possible in a short time span, earning points and additional playing time as they make words and string combos together.

You can download Tiny Words from iTunes here:
http://j.mp/mtMTSa

Thanks very much to everyone involved in the cocos2d community, especially riq for creating it. This was my first game on either a touch or non-touch platform, and I was amazed at how easy it was to develop it using the abstractions that cocos2d-iphone provides.

Chris Hildenbrand from SpriteAttack created the game graphics, and I highly recommend his work to anyone looking for an artist.

Here are some promo codes for Tiny Words:

3NLTFKNH977N
YA3YE7KRM4TN
M6LHY3L34REA
R7KKFA34Y9EX
FAHFN3R7XP76

Please write an honest review on the app store and let me know if you find any bugs.

Posted 10 months ago #
Gray Olson
Member

Looks awesome! My mom would love it... Great graphics, looks like good gameplay, I think this could go pretty darn far!

Gray

PS taken code:
3NLTFKNH977N

Posted 10 months ago #
Motivated Creation
Member

I can't wait to try it out! It looks like a fun puzzle game!

M6LHY3L34REA

Posted 10 months ago #
liquidfire
Member

Looks awesome, took YA3YE7KRM4TN.

I'll leave a review really soon.

Posted 10 months ago #
gjritter
Member

Thanks for the feedback everyone! If you know anyone else that you think would like it, please let them know about the game. As a hobbyist/indie developer, my marketing budget is unfortunately $0, so I'm relying heavily on word of mouth. :-)

Posted 10 months ago #
Gray Olson
Member

Definitely.

Posted 10 months ago #
beyondtool
Member

I love the graphical style, but couldn't help feeling that the audio was really lacking. I don't mind word games and this is a variation on boggle, which is fine. The dictionary seems pretty good, although I noticed a few words missing. I felt that the tutorial should be shown the first time through, I spent a bit of time trying to figure the game out before noticing the help button.

The problem I had was originally I found the game frustrating as I struggled to find enough words within the time limit. Then I started going for the "bonus" word by flicking through letters and matching and I found I got bonus time for this, and hence landed a high score on the leader boards. However I felt like this cheapens the game as I'm just flicking and matching rather than thinking about what words I'm forming.

But with a some time spent on these issues I think this could be a hit.

I think this game has potential, but I'm not sure how you could overcome this problem without affecting the gameplay. Perhaps limiting how many letters you can change within a certain amount of time or penalizing the player with losing points when you swap letters to encourage efficient use of every letter.

Also a 5 letter mode would be a welcome addition as it would be more strategic.

Posted 10 months ago #
letmeknow
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I just feel it cheap to abuse the top AppStore titles, some guys trying to add Angry, Tiny, etc. to the titles even in the end the new title is just non-sense.

'Tiny Wings' is really meaningful, because the bird has tiny wings, it can't fly, it finds another way to fly.

Tiny Words is non-sense, is there any tiny words in this app?
NO ONLY BIG WORDS HERE, JUST BECAUSE IT SHALL GROW UNDER TINY WINGS'S SHADE

Posted 10 months ago #
Gray Olson
Member

Tiny Words makes sense! It's only four-letter words, hence 'tiny'

Gray

Posted 10 months ago #
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catchy title Tiny Words... looks great... ♬♪

Posted 10 months ago #
gjritter
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@beyondtool, thanks for the helpful review. I've received feedback from a few people that the tutorial should be shown the first time playing the game, so I'll probably make this change in the first update.

The flicking quickly through to get bonus words tactic works for a bit, but there are diminishing returns on the bonus time. I'm contemplating changes to make this strategy less worthwhile.

@letmeknow, the game is all about forming four letter words, so yes, the app is all about tiny words. I thought about naming it Tiny Word (Tiny = 4 letters, Word = 4 letters) but thought this sounded silly.

Thanks to everyone that's provided feedback. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know!

Posted 10 months ago #

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