2017-10-19 19:56:10 (edited by lee.hobbs 2017-10-19 21:23:55)

The classic word search has gone to war! AppA11y has released Word War on iOS (bit.ly/wwwordfun). Users can play single player games or challenge opponents to word battles.  Word battles can be timed battles where each player has a copy of the puzzle and fastest time wins or live battles where both players search for words simultaneously on the same puzzle in real time.  Letter bombs can be used to remove letters and smoke bombs can be launched attack against opponents to slow them down!

Advance your rank until you reach the highest rank of General of the Army.  The in game chat functionality can be used to taunt or encourage friends to play again!

Word War! is 100% voiceover accessible and available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese. Test your skill against opponents all over the world!

Features:
    •    iOS accessibility for visually impaired
    •    Available in 7 languages
    •    Over 160 fun word categories
    •    Single player or multiplayer games
    •    Simultaneous real time multiplayer games
    •    Launch bombs against opponents to slow them down
    •    Use letter bombs to remove letters
    •    Advanced statistics
    •    Multilingual Chat functionality
    •    Screen specific help

Download Word War!:
App Store:         http://bit.ly/wwwordfun

About AppA11y:
AppA11y is an independent game studio based in Northern California founded on the principles that app games should be accessible to EVERYONE including those with visual impairments. With the motto “Accessibility First”, AppA11y’s goal is link visually impaired and non-visually impaired individuals and communities through fun and exciting games.

Website:     http://appa11y.com

Email:     [email protected]

Facebook:    https://www.facebook.com/WordWarWordSearch/

Twitter:     https://twitter.com/AppA11y

2017-10-20 12:22:24

Will there be a android version released?

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2017-10-20 18:14:49

Hi.
Wow... Sounds like an awesome game. Is there a chance that the game will become available in more languages and maybe danish in the future?

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2017-10-22 17:18:46

Android version is in the queue!

2017-10-24 00:42:55

When we expand localization we will add Danish.

2017-10-29 13:59:08

Sounds awesome...
First I couldn't find the game in the danish app store, but searching for appa11y gave me the result I was looking for... smile

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2017-11-06 23:53:58

If you search for Word War Word Search it should be one of the first 5 displayed.  Thanks for checking out too!

2017-11-06 23:55:19

Also this link will open it in the app store:   http://bit.ly/wwwordfun

2017-11-07 08:56:26

Hi.
I have briefly looked at the game and it seems to be great. But playing an english word puzzle is very difficult for me since english isn't my main language. So I look very much forward to see if danish will be added. I love the interface in the game.

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2017-12-05 22:48:00

Okay, while playing Ios games is a bit of a pain at the moment owing to my severe lack of a battery, I did give this one a try last night, but  into a few issues.

I tried the single player first to attempt to get a hang of the game play, but I couldn't complete even one puzzle, and I wonder if there is a bug somewhere.
One problem I had was that I mixed up the swipe gestures, and so kept on using letter bombs when i didn't mean to, and I wonder if these somehow made the puzzles unwinable, since in  puzzle I tried, I ran  words  just physically weren't there.

For example, I did the fruits puzzle and was left to find the words "raisen" and "apricot" but there wasn't one single letter r on the entire board (though lots of spaces hit by those bombs).

This kept happening. On the zoo animals puzzle I had to find the word "elephant" but there was no  l next to any e vertically or horrizontally (I checked by swiping up, down, left and right from each e), ditto with s and t when I needed to find the word  stallion on the farm puzzle.

I wonder if there is something off in how the bombs work in single paye   player mode? Needless to say, if I can't  complete a single player puzzle I don't know about trying a multiplayer game, though I would be interested to  see what attempts have been made to level the playing field given that using vo one does not have  visual scanning and overview  which sighted players have.


One access feature I would like to see, is some way of disabling the ability to  accidently swipe yourself  off the gameboard, either  that or perhaps a beep in the last row or column, since I kept missing the  edge of the board and losing my place, which meant examination of the board systematically was  more difficult perhaps than I should have been.

I will give the game another try and we'll see how I get on next time, and hopefully I'll be able to create db  entries for both games too.

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2017-12-06 01:12:28

i love this game. Great thing to do when you are bored. I played alot of puzzles and i didn't see any problems.

2017-12-06 20:31:54

I got the app, I’ll give it a shot. You guys need to improve your SEO though. It wasn’t easy to find the app using the App Store search. I had to come here to get the link.

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2017-12-07 02:41:38

Hmmm Saphira, I did give the game another quick try and had the same problem, I was looking for the word parakeet, but though I flicked up down left and right from each p, I never found p a together.

I do have diagonal words turned off in settings so I don't think it is that, maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it is my Iphone five.

Btw Ironcross, I did find wordwar in the ap store by searching wordwar, though interestingly enough the mod version of the game, battlecats didn't show up at all, even in the related links section to word war.

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