People just should play this: Clockwords.
Video Games November 28th. 2009, 7:44pmClockwords is a masterfully inventive game. Combine “Tower Defense” with “Typing as fast as humanly possible” to create a fun game. The game operates on the premise that you have a safe full of secrets you must protect. Your rival sends mechanical bugs at you, and you must shoot them with a gun by typing words.
The longer the words, the more damage you deal. The words that contain all the letters in the chamber in the “word gun” unlock more letters per turn to increase your damage. You can type anything, but the longer and the faster you type with the letters provided the more damage you will do per second, stopping the bugs. As you play, you unlock more powerful letters to load into your word gun by combining more common letters. There is a balance between striving for the most obscure words with the rarest letters, and keeping common letters around to score some points. I unlocked several levels and replayed a few to “grind” for more powerful letters.
It’s fun in a hectic, Bookworm Adventures sort of way, but it relies on good typing skills, which I sorely lack. I think a few people in the office might enjoy this game. I’ll pass it along.
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November 29th, 2009 at 6:00 am
Purely out of curiosity, I decided to try it.
Thirty minutes later and here I am. Do me a favor for time and don’t post these again. :D
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:09 am
That gets hard!
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 pm
….that’s what she said?