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3D Printing Foursies – Counters
An important part of Foursies is the counters. For the game we’ve made lots of different counters which a player can choose from to make the game their own For the real life version the first decision...
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3D Printing Foursies – Playdough Hills!
We’ve worked out how to print a four-in-a-row board using our 3D printer, so making four of them is no problem! What happens next is figuring out how to make this into one complete set that holds...
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Foursies – Approved & Playable!
Exciting news! The version of Foursies we submitted to Apple has been approved. We have a bit of server-side work to do before the game can go live, so we’re sticking with the originally planned...
View ArticleHappy Foursies Day, everyone!
Foursies, our new twist on the classic four-in-a-row board game, is now available. It’s April 4th. 4/4. Hence: Foursies Day! Download Foursies on the App Store or watch the demo video below to find...
View ArticleEveryone Loves Foursies!
We’ve known it for some time, of course, but Foursies is awesomely fun and addictive. Obviously we’d say that about our own game. We love it to pieces. But it’s not taken long for others to catch on,...
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How Chartboost killed our game launch
EDIT: The refund has been processed, and the CEO has been in touch to make sure everything is OK. Seems like we got there, it’s just a shame we can’t turn back time and try again… Unfortunately long...
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Graphtastic: How long do Foursies games take?
One of the bold claims we’ve made about Foursies is that “games are quick and fun”. It must be true. Nick says so in the voiceover for our video! The actual numbers I’d been telling people were that...
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Graphtastic: Foursies Addiction!
Among the many statistics I like to generate from our game data is one that shows me how many players are coming back each day. In fact, I do this as a graph: it’s a bar chart showing the total number...
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The Big 10K!
Word Search Party hit an amazing milestone this weekend. There are now more than 10,000 word lists in the puzzle library! That’s a fantastic selection of word searches, all submitted by users of the...
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What’s in Word Search 10K?
By way of a preview of Word Search 10K, our attempt to break the Word Record for Largest Word Search Puzzle, here’s a list of the 100 themed categories that will be featured in the puzzle. We picked...
View ArticleOur Most Prolific Word Searchers!
While compiling Word Search 10K, we spent a lot of time looking through the puzzle library in a great deal more detail than we normally would. What amazed us was that we had some awesomely prolific...
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The Word Search 10K Poster
Word Search 10K is our attempt to break the World Record for Largest Word Search Puzzle. Of course, we’re making it into an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It’ll be available in the App Store...
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Word Search 10K – the book!
Word Search 10K is our attempt to break the World Record for Largest Word Search Puzzle. It’s one giant, continuous puzzle that we’re making as an app for iOS and publishing as a massive poster! We...
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Word Search 10K is on the App Store now!
Word Search 10K is now available on the App Store. It’s a free download. Go and grab yourself a copy of the largest word search puzzle ever made. This is the icon you’re looking for!
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Graphtastic: Watching Word Search 10K being solved
Taylor Swift is more popular than Jonas Brothers, and we’ve just proved it! We’ve found a way to create a funky-looking visualisation of which sections of Word Search 10K users are playing most. We...
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Reviewing the Reviews of Word Search 10K
Word Search 10K has been out nearly a week and the App Store reviews are starting to appear. I wanted to start with this one from Japan. No, I don’t know what it says. It doesn’t matter. It’s from...
View ArticleDevelopers – why go to conferences?
The Develop conference is running in Brighton this week. Want to meet us there? Sorry, we’re not going. We went last year, and realised there just wasn’t a compelling enough reason to make the trip...
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Our apparent attempt to subvert Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records has refused to accept Word Search 10K as the largest word search ever. They say we cheated. At least, that’s the subtext of their explanation. “As each square of the wordsearch...
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A word from the current world record holder
Over on the Guinness World Records page for World’s Largest Word Search, the current world record holder, Mel Crow, had this to say about our failed attempt. “As happy as I am to hear that I retain the...
View ArticleWatching people solve Word Search 10K
One of the really cool things we’ve been able to do with Word Search 10K is generate heatmap images to show which sections of the grid that have been solved the most. We’ve also been able to watch the...
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