PopCap Games has released the Bookworm Game for mobile phones, available from T-Mobile, in UK and all major mobile carriers throughout North America. This popular game is the second mobile game that PopCap has designed internally.
“Bookworm is very well suited for mobile phones because it can be played in short bursts of a minute or two whenever and wherever the opportunity arises. At the same time, the game also offers a great challenge for marathon word-builders since it’s essentially infinite in its replayability. We’ve streamlined and optimized the controls so that playing Bookworm on a phone is even easier than via a mouse or keyboard. And the game now references the Oxford English Dictionary, so even the most inveterate ‘lexophile’ will be satisfied,†said Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development at PopCap.
Mobile Phone users need to build words from contiguous letter titles on a grid. If you try to solve longer and more difficult words, you will score more points and produce a variety of ‘gem titles’, later offering more bonuses. When multiple gem titles are used in a single word, you gain mega-bonuses. Moreover, players must burn tiles sear through normal tiles, reach the bottom of the grid more quickly before they reach the bottom or the game ends.
With the new mobile version, players get an option to control the selection of letter tiles through d-pad/cursor, triple-tap or predictive text entry, such that the game controls are streamlined specifically for on-the-go play.
Here are the important features of Bookworm Mobile Game:
Originally launched for the 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 its release on the handheld device in April of this year.
